David Hawthorne: Question 3: What have you learned from from your audience feedback?

Our audience feedback helped us to understand exactly what it was that our audience would want to see in a film. We gave them choices as to what genre they may prefer and which type of music they would like to hear used in the film. With the audience being involved in this way it meant that we could package together a product that they have asked for and by giving them what they want we it is easier for us to see who our target audience is, and it also makes it easier to aim outr product at our target audience as we know what it is they want to see.

David Hawthorne: Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

One of the most effective points to this product was the fact that we used the same logo across all three texts. We used the title of the film across all three of our products as it is like a stamp on our work that identifies it as our own and becasue it can be easily identified by our audience who can recognize that it is us.

David Hawthorne: question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Real media texts:

—They’re funny
—The script is spoken at speed, often with quick fire puns.
—Uses exaggerated acting for a comic effect.
—May have references to other films and will play on the seriousness of it.
—Certain music is in ironic fashion, for example a cheerful instrumental during a fight scene

Our product:

—Over exaggerated the acting of the nerds, for example the laughs.
—Played on the ‘reservoir dogs’ walking scene to comic effect.
—Used serious music during the walking scene, which added to the fact that the nerds couldn’t be ‘gangsta’

Develpoing the conventions of a comedy

One of the scenes from our production includes three of the ‘nerds’ who have tried to become ‘gangsta’, walking slowly along a path. This idea was taken from the film reservoir dogs where the men all walk adjacent to each other along a path. We added a piece of music over the top and added slow motion during the editing to play on the idea of a spoof or parody. Comedies use a lot of short often hard to spot spoofs or references to other films to make a scene funnier and by using this ourselves we have developed this convention.

Challenging the conventions

One of the scene from our production includes three of the ‘nerds’ who have tried to become ‘gangsta’, walking slowly along a path. This idea was taken from the film reservoir dogs where the men all walk adjacent to each other along a path. We added a piece of music over the top and added slow motion during the editing to play on the idea of a spoof or parody. Comedies use a lot of short often hard to spot spoofs or references to other films to make a scene funnier and by using this ourselves we have developed this convention.

Using GarageBand

 This is a distribution logo, one i found on google, ive inspired myself from it to create our own original distribution logo. This logo has a simple and bold shape to it, "triple vision" has 3 shaped like arrows coming out, ive based ours on this similar design, "way forward" has an arrow pointed forward, simple.

Online photo editors such as FotoFlexer allow us to use the 'comic' option, which means we can transform our characters so that they appear to be a part of a comic storyboard.  In our mock poster we used a cartoon character therefore this effect will allow us to create a similar outcome.