Term 4 Evaluation

Year 10 Creative Media Short Film Production – Term 04 Mr Andrews

Task 5: Website and poster self-reflection and evaluation:

Part One: Discuss your feelings about the website, poster and promotional materials task:

1.    Are you satisfied with the final result?

Overall I am pretty satisfied with my final result.

1.    Did the website require more/less time than you originally thought?

The website actually required a lot less time than I originally thought.

1.    Would like to change any aspects of your final project (layout, links, images, colour scheme etc)?

If I were able to change any aspects of my final project, it would probably be to add more pages and detail to each page.

1.    If you could start the project again what would you do differently?

By restarting the project I would definitely spend more time on the aspects of my project such as my layout and theme, as I thought the website looked quite plain and bland.

Part Two: Respond to each of the following dot points (using complete sentences or paragraphs). You should include as much detail as possible in your responses.

1.    Discuss whether your website and poster have turned out the way you pictured them?

I definitely think my poster turned out the way I wanted it to, however I think the site was quite different. I wanted it to be really interactive and interesting, although it was just to hard to do this using iWeb, and a bit unrealistic with the abilities I have.

1.    Describe whether your site and poster clearly depicts the intended genre and describe some specific design techniques you have used to achieve this;

Forgotten is a mystery and I definitely think the color scheme shows this, but overall looking at the site it isn't clear the film is a mystery. The darkness of the layout shows that the film has something bad or tragic that happens in it. To achieve the full sense of a mystery, as said above I think I could of have made my sight more interactive. As originally I had a plan to have key objects from the film on my site and you click on them and they give you clues.

1.    Did you have all of the necessary resources to complete your site and poster or did you create new materials?

I had all the necessary resources to complete my poster and site, however it would have been good to have a website designer that would allow you to put a bit more detail into your site.

1.    Describe any problems or difficulties you encountered during the process. These may include; technical difficulties, corrupt or missing files, difficulty using the iWeb software, problems exporting files, sound or video etc;

The only difficulty I had using iWeb was transferring my whole film into the site. It was loading really slowly, so Mr Powell quickly showed me how to compress the file, and upload a much smaller file a lot quicker.

1.    Clarify how you made use of planning, content-lists and the flowchart during the authoring process;

The flowchart turned out to be my most useful source of planning. It enabled me to clearly see what pages i had to design on my website and what needed to be done. By completing my synopsis and character profiles earlier was also an advantage as I had more time to focus on the layout of my site. 

2.    Discuss whether you undertook adequate and detailed reflection throughout your project.

Throughout my project my main fault was the use of reflections. I spent most of the class lessons working on my poster or website, and didn't take enough time to reflect on my progress and what had to be done. It was also because as soon as we received the task I had an idea for my site and poster straight away 

Planning

Synopsis: Blaire (Abbey Bayliss) and Nate (Jarrord Harkin) seemed like the perfect couple, but when Nate unexpectedly goes missing Blaire’s world is turned upside down.  She accuses Serena (Stephanie Rutherford) and Nate (Mitch Bayliss) her closest friends for his disappearance.  As they reveal their alibies her chances of finding him are sliming. But maybe there was someone else responsible for his disappearance? Someone much closer than you’d expect. 

Character Profiles:

Blaire

Blaire is a young teenage girl with light brown hair and blue eyes. She has always been a loyal and loving girlfriend, but her insecurities get the best of her. Blaire’s jealously of her best friends relationships with Nate stir her judgement. Throughout the film she is only acting out of love, but is she to emotionally attached to Nate’s disappearance to see all the pieces of the puzzle fitting together?

Nate

Nate is a young teenage boy, with brown hair and who is also very tall. He doesn’t talk in the film, leading to questions whether he really did disappear. Nate is a generous boyfriend but is his unusually close friendship with Serena getting out of hand?

Dan

Dan is a young teenage boy, with dark hair and blue eyes. He is Nate’s best friend, but has a very sketchy background.  He may seem innocent but his bad boy attitude isn’t helping his case. 

The Parents

Blaire’s parents are your average middle-aged couple. They are quite unspoken characters, leaving many possibilities for them to be the true reason for Nate’s vanishing. Their actions may be out of love, but is acting out of love not always the right thing to do?

Serena

Serena is a young teenage girl, with dark brown hair and blue eyes. She is very close friends with Blaire and Nate, which is one of the main reasons she is accused for Nate’s disappearance. Serena is one of the popular girls at school, and although she may seem ditzy she’s a true friend.    

Additional Resources

-Two screenshots of each of the characters will be required for characters profiles 

-The whole film

-Completed synopsis and character profiles

Colour Scheme
I am going to have a predominately black and white colour scheme, to show the darkness involved throughout the film.I want it to have a dark mood, and to make it look mysterious. The target audience is 14+, as it is a bit dark for ounce years, and it portrays bad messages. 

Exploring and evaluating promotional material for existing films.

1) Coraline

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3) Synopsis:

When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, with caring parents and all her dreams coming true. When the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay in her world forever, the girl refuses and finds that the alternate reality where she is trapped is only a trick to lure her. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A young girl walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life - only much better. But when her adventure turns dangerous, and her counterfeit parents (including Other Mother) try to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to get back home - and save her family.  

4/8) The promotional poster for the film, has to main colour schemes, one being lighter colours the others being dark and moody. The two sides of the poster show Coraline's real world (light) and the parallel world (dark). The poster also shows important items that are used throughout the movie, such as the buttons, cat and the ghosts of the children. The poster is very balanced with the focal point being just below the middle where Coraline is standing. Behind her is the house with odd items sticking out here and there, and directly down the middle being the split between the noral world and the parallel one.

5) (The tree diagram couldn't transfer to blogger) The website for the movie starts with a movie screen that pops up with options of choosing to click on either the trailer, DVD, film, map and Paranorman which is another film by this same director. As well as this, there is an interactive background behind the movie screen. It shows everything in the parallel world and allows you to click on significant landmarks, such as the well and the house, allowing you to enter the house as well.

6) The target audience of the film is meant to be 9-13 year olds. However I feel as if the website for the film makes it look quite scary, which the film in fact is. It is also very intriguing as you want to find out why the buttons are so significant and it really does make you want to see the movie.

7) The main thing I like about the film's website, is the interactive background. This allows you to travel all over the parallel world and gives you a good sense of Coraline's surrounding and what you'll see in the movie. The only think I dislike is the pop up screen in the middle sometimes makes it difficult to click on something in the interactive background.