Final Post

We have all learnt a lot from this project, and now we have all completely finished our blog posts, this will be the final blog post. We had one or two injuries on the job, during filming one of the props (the knife) actually cut into Alex Cox's hand, and also during one of the fight scenes my left shoulder was bruised quite badly, apart from these two minor injuries the filming went very smoothly along with the whole project.

Overall Evaluation

I personally believe that Matthew Harrop, Alex Cox and I came out of this project having a very good idea of media campaigns and how if we may make a film how we would advertise that fact. There are many thing we learnt during this project and there are also many aspects of the filming and editing etc that we now know that we could have done better in, for example some of the shot transistions were flawed and now if w went back and restarted editing im sure we would do a better job. As a group we did start filming quite late because the pre-planning was a very important stage for us, so when we actually came to filming the trailer we were very organised and did it all very quickly. I personally believe we could have done a better job on parts of the editing but hopefully we have done a good enough job for us to get a good set of marks.

USP

Our unique selling point is the fact that we are not trying to glorify gang violence, quite the opposite. We are merely showing an insight into someone that has been born into that kind of violence and has either got to follow that path or break free, which in modern day society is very difficult to do without something happening to you. All other violent film trailers that I have analysed have glorified violence in a way, and that does hit a wide target audience but many people think about how fake it is and how it would never happen, even though we here stories about things happening like that in every day life. The target audience that we have gone for are those who like violence along with those who may still like it but think that many films like this are too fake for them too watch.

Front Cover Evaluation

We decided to make the front cover packed with all types of different information that the target audience would like to read about, we also chose to have a picture with all three actors (Rafid, Alex Cox and I) with the cameraman Matthew Harrop. The picture was taken with graphitee behind us because we wanted to look like we were in quite an urban place, like most of our film. We have also tried to make it look like exclusive interviews with each of the actors in the top right. We also thought we would mention injuries throughout the film because we did actually have several, so a little bit of the truth was told in the magazine front cover. After analysing all these different front covers we decided it would be best if we packed it with as much information as we could with it still looking proffesional because we didnt think that we would get the same proffessional feel if we went for the minimalist approach.

Teaser Front Cover

Front Cover Analysis - 6

There are several good points to this magazine front cover, firstly the 'EMPIRE' title is in flames, the target audience will think that this looks quite cool and thus find it more appealing. The colours of this magazine front cover also go together very well. Obviously 'Hell Boy' is the main of this particular magazine front cover, but these 'Hellboy' films are very well known so when they come up on the front cover they already have a wide target audience.

Front Cover Analysis - 5

This front cover is also quite effective, the bright glow coming from the picture does attract your attention straight to the middle of the front cover. The exclusives are all very clear which is good because the target audiences see them and automatically get interested. The fact that 'EMPIRE' has an electric font maybe trying to say that the magazine is going to be full of action - a very energetic issue. The background and the main picture are completely different colours which actually works for this because it makes the 'Iron man' stand out more than he would otherwise.

Front Cover Analysis - 4

This magazine front cover is very unique. After looking up a lot of magazine front covers this one really stood out, and if I saw it in a shop I would buy it just because the picture has been edited to perfection, the magazine editors have made it look like the whole magazine is getting ripped in half, obviously this is promoting 'The Hulk' because it truly extentuates his power. Also the way the 'P' in 'EMPIRE' has been edited makes it look likes its been broken in half, the way this has been edited is very impressive and if I saw this in a shop there is a good chance I would buy it.

Front Cover Analysis - 3

I do not think this is a very effective use of magazine front cover, the quote 'BEHIND THE MASK...' is on the wrong kind of background because it becomes very difficult to read when the background gets a bit lighter. They might not have spent as much time on this magazine because it's a collectors issue and so it already has the aquired target audience, it doesn't have any prizes which EMPIRE magazines normally have because they normally aim those prizes at target audiences. Obviously this is a slightly different issue to otheres because it is limited edition and a collectors issue, so it won't have the same connotations as other normal magazines.

Front Cover Analysis - 2

This front cover is completely different to most other empire front covers, it again has quite a minimalist effect on it, the background being completely white and Megan Fox's picture taking up almost the whole cover and the title 'EMPIRE' going behind her head. This effect will have been used because Megan Fox is very famous and a lot of people will buy that issue just to try and win a lunch with Megan Fox. The barcode is put half way down the magazine on the right side, compared to most other magazines where the barcode is normally in the bottom right or left of the magazine. In this case I think EMPIRE wanted to get the full extent of the shadow coming of the picture of Megan Fox so they couldn't put it in the bottom right corner.

Front Cover Analysis - 1

We want something like this for our front cover, we want certain parts to stand out more than others, for example the way they underline the word 'COOLEST' shows that the magazine producers want to make that stand out more than anything else, perhaps because Star Trek has got a reputation of not being one of the coolest thing to watch, so they may be trying to break into a new market. They have names of films at the top which might be them talking about whats going to be talked about in this issue of the magazine front cover. The actual picture is in black and white and the title goes over his head, maybe showing that he is not necessarily the most important actor in this issue of the magazine.

Teaser Poster Evaluation

Most posters are just meant to give a clearer outline of the film, this is exactly what ours did. We went for a simplistic approach for the teaser poster we had our main image which we edited in photoshop, then we had the name of our production in bold across the front of the poster, and underneath the title of the film we put the catchphrase "Britain's most dangerous postcode" to show the target audience that the film is about postcode wars.

Teaser Poster

Green Street Poster

This poster is very similar to ours, although instead of glorifying one character it glorifies two. We also plan on having graphitee in the background, just to show you the area is more urban. The difference is the graphitee that is in our poster isn't our slogan, we did look for a font to make it look like graphitee but we could not find anything so instead we just made WEST 10 stand out as well as possible so we put in a similar font to what "Green street holligans" is in. We have not thought about putting actors names underneath the main characters pictures but that is a good idea, bringing a wider audience to the film. The setting of this poster is very dark and dingy, this shows that they have something to hide or they live for the night.

Twilight Film Poster

I have chosen to analyse this film poster because at the moment everyone is going on about twilight and saying how good it is, this means they must have launched a successful media campaign when it first came out, this poster being a part of that campaign. Obviously the two characters in the poster are glorified, also there is a slogan in the top left hand corner and finally all the details about when it starts at the bottom, the date it enters theatres in bold white font. This is a very minimalist approach to a poster, but it does have all the details the the audience need to know already on it.

The Matrix Poster

The reason I chose this film poster inparticular is because I noticed that it glorifies Neo (the main character of the Matrix). This is almost exactly what we are doing for our film poster apart from there will only be three of us in the picture because we only had three main actors. Alex Cox being the main character overall will be at the front with me and Rafid looking away from the camera in two different directions. I believe this will get the desired effect which is what we want to be simlar to this. Also where it says 'The Matrix' across Neo's legs we are coming to have a catchphrase or a slogan that we also say in the film, this is probably going to be "Welcome To The Neighbourhood" and also a little higher will be the title of the film. In this particular poster Neo actually has light surrounding him, this suggests that he will be known as the protector during the film, which is quite accurate.

Poster Colours

In our poster we have quite a light background with Alex, Rafid and I all in the picture, we want to have text across our bodies in big bold letters that stand out infront of the background, we looked into it and tried and tested about 20 different colours that would stand out the most in the end coming down to a dark red. The text we are going to have is going to be "WEST 10" and then just below that "WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD" we did want this to be written in a graphitee font but you have to pay to download those fonts off the internet even though we did try.

Hot Fuzz Poster

I do not think this is the best film poster because you can't really tell by the poster that Hot Fuzz is actually a comedy. Obviously you can see Nick Frost is copying exactly what Simon Pegg is doing, but that could just mean they are a very tight team and they have begun to do the same things because they spend so much time together. If I saw this film poster without having seen the actual film I genuinely would have believed that this was an action film and not a comedy. Also inside the O of Hot Fuzz they have put a police badge, we tried to emulate something like that in our film poster but it didnt look as proffesional as this.

The Dark Knight Poster

This is one of the best film posters I have seen before. It has a clear slogan "Why so serious?" that can either confuse or intimidate the audience depending or not they have seen the previous Batman films. It also has the jokers face bit imprinted into that is the batman symbol, so it brings two different emotions fear, and safety through one image. This poster is for a film that is obviously going to do well and is something many people are going to talk about, it has had such successful media campaigns in the past that they barely have to say anything in the poster and everyone knows its a Batman film poster.

Teaser Trailer Questionnaire

Our questionnaire consisted of four questions which were to be answered in some detail. Here are the four questions:
What were the films strengths?
What were the weaknesses of the film?
How does the trailer challenge convetional views and beliefs?
What could have been done better?

After collaborating the results we got the following points:
Question 1) The camera angles used were varied and often very professional looking. The soundtrack fits perfectly with the on-screen action.There is a varied length of shot time adding to the montage effect.
Question 2) Some of the voiceovers don't sound entirely in character and dont fit with what is going on on screen.The film appears to follow a narrative and then suddenly doesn't have any continuity at all.
Question 3) The film offers a insight into some racially directed sterotypes of the youth culture. It follows many older generations thoughts on the younger generations today. Has many key features that would challenge the idea of youth crime and violence.
Question 4) Some of the editing could have been improved to create a more flowing production. There were too many shots of people walking around and not enough of the action in the film. Produce an even wider range of camera shots and angles.

Teaser Trailer Evaluation

Our teaser trailer is definitely our strongest point in this media campaign so far, it consisted of many different shots some of which are quite advanced and are actually very hard to make look proffesional. One technique that we used for our entire teaser trailer was to try and pack it full of action but never hold one shot longer than 5 seconds. This did work out very well for us and I think our teaser trailer looks very proffesional. There are one or two things that we could have done better, for example our 360 degree shot was quite shaky and I would have rather it gone round very smoothly just to add to the professionality of the film.

Teaser Trailer

I was unable to put my film up onto the blog, there is a shaky version of it taken off a phone that was put onto youtube. The actual version of it is on Alex Cox's documents at Therfield. We do apologise for any inconvenience that we may have caused, the school computers were not allowing us to upload the film onto youtube.

Football Factory Trailer

The Football Factory trailer is something we need to analyse because we are sticking to that target audience (while trying to expand into a new consumer market). The difference is between our trailer and the football factory trailer is that they rely heavily on show alcohol and thus showing the hooligans while they are drunk. We are trying to get the more intimidating image into our audiences head that the people in our film do not need alcohol to do the things they do, not even drugs. The reasons I think the Football Factory and our film could be similar is that they are both terrotrial, for example if a gang of football holigans is on someone elses territory there will be a fight, and its similar for postcode wars, but it can literally just be anyone walking through that area. Football Factory does have a bigger story behind it than drinking and fighting but so does our production and it is a very similar idea, just apart from the fact that Football Factories glorifies violence whereas our trailer is trying to put it down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz6GbvWD_NI

Avatar Trailer Analysis

In the Avatar trailer there is a soundtrack playing, this soundtrack slowly builds up more and more tension throughout the trailer until it finally drops and this is when all the excitement comes through of the trailer, over the soundtrack you also here what is supposed to be diegetic sound. Throughout the trailer the producers have tried to capture romance, mystery and violence. They have done this very well the production company did have a very high budget for this film so obviously it was going to be very good, the only way our trailer relates to this is the convergence of the soundtrack, diegetic sound and dialect, we feel that we have converged all three of these things very successfully.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1_JBMrrYw8

Software

The whole use of the editing suite was a complete mystery to me as I joined the school this year so when I found out it was an upgraded version and not many people really knew what they were doing I was a little less worried. The adobe software that the school has now makes it very easy to film and edit on little to no budget at all. Although we had no budget we still tried to make our film look as proffesional as possible, which was made much easier by the software we actually used. It was especially helpful as we put our soundtrack over dialect and tried to lower the volume of the diegetic sound because it was so simple to do and quite self explanatory.
In this media campaign we will also be using Photoshop which is good because I have this at home and I actually know how to use it to its full extent.

Paranormal Activity Trailer

I have chosen to analyse this film, knowing that it is not in the same genre but just so I can explain how is going to be different but may still be using some of the same connotations as this teaser trailer. This trailer inparticular is in the horror genre, it is a very low budget film (similar to Adulthood and Shank) but is very effecient into making the audience believe they saw things that they actually haven't. The lighting is one of the things that may be similar to our film trailer and this film trailer because in this paranormal activity trailer the darking is mainly very dark, which is similar to our trailer, but when light is needed it switches very abruptly, which is also similar to our trailer. One main difference between our trailer and paranormal activity is that they rely on diegetic sounds to frighten the audience whereas in our trailer we have dialect, a soundtrack and diegetic sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_UxLEqd074

Lighting

We used no artificial lighting in our teaser trailer. Although when we were filming outside we were very careful about where we placed individual characters, for example I was always placed in a more open area that was well lit so as to show my characters innocence and also to show how isolated he is. Rafid's character especially was left in the dark constantly because he still has that mysterious edge to him. He is the character that I think the target audience will be most intrested in because his true colours haven't really come out in the teaser trailer. Almost every shot Rafid is in his hood is up or he is down an unlit alleyway, this is the effect we were looking for because the less of someones face you see the less you think you know them, and with Rafid's character especially that is what we are going for.

Questionnaire

We asked 20 random people of different ages to take part in this questionare. I sent it over facebook making it easier for them to send me the results. This is the audience feedback we recieved:
1) What aspect of a teaser trailer excites you the most?
a) The producers and directors
b) The setting
c) The actors
d) The narrative
The highest scoring answer was c) therefor we shall include credits in our teaser trailer giving the name of the actors as it seems to have a persuasive effect on the viewer.
2) What would you rather see evidence of along with a crime drama?
a) Romantic clips
b) Elements of humour and comedy
c) Neither I would prefer it kept to its main genre
The highest scoring answer was c) so we shall keep the majority of scenes to violence and tension.
3) Which genre of music do you think would best suit our a film along the urban football hooligan narrative?
a) Hip Hop
b) Grime
c) Punk Rock
d) Drum n Bass
The highest scoring answer was b). This is probably because our film is obviously english and so an english genre of music would adequately suit this.
4) In a teaser trailer do you prefer to be shown
a) Hardly any information on the film keeping you in the dark
b) A selective release of information on the film keeping you guessing
c) Lots of information leaving relatively little to the imagination
The highest scoring answer was b) This was unsuprising and means we shall have to take great care in how much of the plot we expose and at the

Shank Trailer Analysis

I have chosen to analyse this teaser trailer because it has the same target audience that we are trying to achieve. In this trailer also uses media convergance to full effect by adding music of the grime genre between shots with dialect in them. This directly personalises some characters in the trailer and adds emotion to a shot that could very easily by emotionless. The trailer begins with a famous grime track, this automatically catches the attention of the target audience and makes them feel like it will be their type of film. The introduction of the main characters in this teaser trailer is unlike most other trailers from this genre, the main characters are introduced off the back foot and so it shows that the whole film is going to be them fighting to stay alive, which is what the target audience want to see, so this makes it a very effective technique. The pace throughout the trailer is very quick and this is something we want for our teaser trailer, we want plenty of short fast clips because that way it does look more proffesional. Also the final shot in this trailer is one of our most important shots that we are trying to replicate. This is because punching the screen while in the process of a fade out does look very effective and if we do it to a high standard it could look very proffesional.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRE9Zzu655s

Kidulthood Trailer

This film trailer is very good because it dives straight into the drugs and violence culture from the very moment it begins, the dialect that is used in the trailer is always very short but at the same time extremely powerful. The soundtrack goes very well with the shots that the production company chose for the trailer. The use of shots also is quite unique to this film trailer, there is a zoom to 'Sam's' eyes which shows an insight into what must be going on in his head and also shows how confused he actually is about the situation he is in. The fade outs also blend in very well into the overall trailer. Another unique point about this film trailer is that it uses sound, dialect and soundtrack in convergence, not many other film trailers that I have seen have done this but it seems to attract the target audience more so than any other film that contains as much violent as this. The trailer also accurately personalises the main character 'Trife' by giving an insight into his every day life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vliupa-zi8

Casting

For our teaser trailer we did start by asking a group of friends to help us, but we eventually worked out that we were never all going to be free at the same time, so we auditioned a few sixth formers who take Drama and now we have a large group who we can actually all get together at one time. There are three main characters, myself, Alex Cox and Rafid but on top of us there are another 7 or 8 boys who we needed for a long shot of them walking down the road towards us for our opening sequence. This amount of people makes the story line more believable because it makes it look like there is an actual gang of people who are all part of the postcode wars and perhaps suggests some rivalry and added violence which would appeal to the target audience.

Location Analysis

We have decided upon three different locations to film our Media A2 coursework, we wanted the areas of filming to look as urban as possible thus appealing to our target audience even more. One of the main areas that we filmed in was the Glebe Road Estate in Leatherhead, this gave off the impression that we were in one of the more dangerous areas of London, and as the film was targeted towards people that were interested in postcode wars and crime in London we thought the Estate was one of the best places to film in that was accessible to us. Another location that we decided would be best for the film was the basketball court directly adjacent to Leatherhead Park; this will be used in a critical part of the teaser trailer which really should catch the audiences attention. It is a good area for us to film because that basketball court is covered in professionally done graphite and does look very urban with very little greenery in the surrounding area. The final location that we chose to use in the teaser trailer is Rafid Valenciano’s (one of the main actors) bedroom; this is mainly because it was very accessible for us and it could very easily be located anywhere in London which is what we are trying to target in our teaser trailer.

Soundtrack

For our teaser trailer we want to have a soundtrack running in the background throughout most of the trailer. For this we have to look for the perfect track and when we find it we have to make sure its not copyrighted. Obviously if it is we can't use it due to legal reasons, we are looking for a track that build up tension throughout the track and when the beat drops we want it to be when my character has just been found and he is about to get attacked... We want the track to be in the grime or drum and bass genre because this is the music that will most appeal to our target audience.

Costumes

My character is the character who we are trying to convey as not being as 'Street' as the other characters in the teaser trailer, we are trying to get across to the audience that my character in the teaser trailer was brought up from a middle/upper class background, and the costume we used was an Abercrombie and Fitch hoodie, Abercrombie and Fitch jeans, and Bench t-shirt:

Alex Cox's character is supposed to be perceived as the youth that is the most aggresive from the area. We wanted to dress him to look as intimidatng as possible so we decided upon dark jeans and a white hoodie and a black bomber jacket that he would wear over the hoodie. I think we captured his character quite successfully these was some of the clothing he wore:

Finally Rafid's character in the teaser trailer is also to be seen as threatening, we did not want to put him in the same clothes as alex's character so we went for what seems even more threatening. We used a scarf and tied it round his face so he seemed like he has to conceal his identity from CCTV and police etc. On top of this he was wearing dark clothing, so a brown hoodie and dark jeans, he looked like he was quite mysterious, and perhaps even more dangerous then Alex's character, yet less aggressive.

Main Theme of Trailer

The main theme of the trailer is about postcode wars in and around the areas of London, our trailer will have the violence that films such as Shank, Rise of the Footsoldier and Adulthood all have in them, but ours is differentiated because it has a twist all of the films that I have just mentioned all glamorise the acts of violence, whereas our teaser trailer will be doing quite the opposite. We intend to have many short, fast shots of me getting attacked and it will show how hostile some of the characters in the area actually are, it will also show you the fight that they live with every day of always trying to be the best and not letting anyone in from the outside because they are almost territorial in a way.

Equipment

The equipment that we are using to film with is quite advanced, Matt and Alex has used a less advanced camera last year when filming their AS coursework. This year we are trying to add some quite advanced shots into our filming, one of these being the 360 degree shot which could only really look any good if we use a modern camera that has very good quality to it. We have also used an external microphone for voiceovers and whilst filming because it is easier to adjust the amount of diegetic sound that the audience can hear, this is because we often film in areas close to a road or railway, meaning excess sound comes from these sources.

Inspiration for our Teaser Trailer

There are many film trailers that Matt, Alex and I watched together and decided that we want our trailer to mirror these trailers to a certain extent. The target audience that trailers such as Rise of the Footsoldiers, Shank and Adulthood appeal to is the same audience that we are trying to appeal to with our trailer. We understand the media campaigns that each one of these films followed to create a successful film and we are hoping to do something similar to these campaigns. Although we may be representing the streets of London in a different way to these films, this is so that we do not enter the niche market that certain films have, for example Football Factory, we want to expand our audience as best we can. We do think that following the same type of media campaign as these films will enable us to appeal to our target audience more so than changing the media campaign completely.

Planning for Trailer

We have decided that in our teaser trailer we are going to have a lot of fast, action packed shots that will help appeal to our target audience, but at the same time there will be a couple of longer ones so it can help get across the message of what we want to portray in our teaser trailer. The first few shots are going to be relatively slow and will fade out to a black screen whilst we play the voiceovers. Straight after the voiceovers we intend to increase the volume of the soundtrack and make the shots more lively then before, more violent and more interesting. This is a common method throughout many real movie trailers and I will show you this later in the blog when I analyse some teaser trailers. Obviously we want to leave a lasting impression on the audiences memories so we decided the last shot of the teaser trailer will definitely be the most memorable, the lead character (Alex Cox) will end the trailer by punching the camera. This will most definitely leave a very good impression on the target audience.

AS Evaluation

1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?My Music Magazine was very much based on DJ magazine; I think it really stands up to established music magazines such as DJ. I think the contents page is the strongest part of the magazine that I produced and is on a par with professional magazines. I did a lot of research into contents pages of music magazines and I feel that I successfully portrayed the basic layout of a music magazine contents page.I think my double page spread is strong but not as good as some you see in certified magazines. Although my masthead is plain and simple I think it suits the front cover, it is bold and stands out like a masthead needs to do. I think if my magazine were a genuine published music magazine then the masthead would be easily recognisable, and may even stand out more than other music magazines in shops and it defiantly appeals to my target audience. I used a simple colour palette of black, blue, purple and green which has added to the effect of my front cover being simple but at the same time exceptionally eye-catching. On my double page spread I have used a big bold headline to attract the reader when they’re flicking through the pages also for the first page of double page spread I decided to use a full page image as I have seen this done in a few magazines, though it is not that common. I feel that this makes my magazine stand out, and on the second page of the double page spread the layout is under a question, answer layout making light reading for the target audience. I really liked this image as it shows the rebellious side of some of the people in the music industry.
2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?Normally the lead image on the front cover will have the artist/artists maintaining eye contact with the reader I did not do this because I expect to capture the customers attention if you do something a little bit different to every other magazine.Though I wanted to stick to the traditional conventions, after taking this photo I thought it suited my front cover well and it didn’t matter that the artist didn’t have eye contact, and so I worked this into trying to make my magazine a little bit different. I wanted a full length shot of the artist in a gig-type shoot.I shot the photo at a gig and played around with the brightness of the image. I wanted the artist to be pictured as he would in a gig so the image would portray them accurately. By using this image of the front cover of my music magazine I wanted to portray a true picture of what the artist is like; serious and very hard working. The particular music genre that I have chosen and have researched in depth has a large audience who are seemingly ‘up for anything’ this means that whenever they can they will go out clubbing, it seems to be a reckless audience in terms of culture as seen by my double page spread DJ Tanya sipping on some Gordon’s Dry Gin.
3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?Throughout the production of my music magazine I got a lot of inspiration from DJ. One of the biggest publishes in the UK is IPC, who publish DJ. IPC media is a leading UK consumer magazine publisher. IPC is owned by Time inc., the publishing division of Time Warner Inc. The business is spilt into five distinct publishing divisions: IPC connect, IPC inspire, IPC ignite, IPC Southbank and IPC TX. Alongside these is Marketforce, the UK’s leading magazine distribution business. IPC is one of the biggest magazine publishers in the UK and publishes DJ. Because my music magazine is very similar to the DJ I would choose IPC to publish it.
4) Who would be the audience for your product?The audience that would be most interested in the magazine I have created will be 16-20 year olds, the music that my magazine is summarising and evaluating is listened to by most youths in that category, its where the lector genre gain most of their money, from club-goers in particular who are primarily in this group.
5) How did you attract/address your audience?I made it clear that the magazine that I was creating was an Electro magazine, it addressed information that had never been seen before so introducing stories as exclusive makes the audience feel like they are some of the first to know, I also attracted the audience by introducing a prize that you could only win by buying the magazine, putting this on the front cover and making the prize something that an electro lover would want to go to.
6) What has been the feedback from your audience?This product was well received by its target market (16-20 year olds) but it has faced a lot of criticism from older generations, but this has created an adverse reaction in the target audience, the more the older generations don’t like the product the more teenagers like it. This has been very good for the publicity of the magazine.
7) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of construction?I personally have learnt a lot about the technologies that I used to construct the media coursework, especially the program Microsoft image suite 2006, I used this throughout my whole coursework and learnt a lot about it, also I created a blog on the internet which was a valuable exercise because it is actually very useful to know how to do this because you can put information that you may need at a later date into the blog and go back to that blog from anywhere in the world.
8) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?I have learnt that it is better to have a quality feel to the magazine rather than filling it with useless information, I have also learnt that it is not hard to make something look how you want it to, manipulating photos is a very easy process and it is easy to make it look real too. Also if a picture comes out a different way to what you wanted it also means that you don’t have to just take another picture you can change it to look like something completely different