Evaluation

Please click the clink to be taken to my Wix website where I have hosted all my answers to the evaluation questions.

http://bethanyryalls97.wix.com/bethanyryallsmedia

Finished Product - Website Homepage

http://bethanyryalls97.wix.com/the-expedition

Please click on the link above to be taken to my final and finished website homepage as one of my ancillary tasks.


Note to the examiner - The layout of my website is structured and therefore appears different on different formats. I designed my website on a regular laptop at home rather than an Apple Mac and the site appears different on each computer because of the screen sizes. Therefore on a Mac, the site has a lot of extra space down the sides however, when on a regular computer/laptop it shows that I have built the site right to the edge.

Final Product - Film Poster

Finished Product - Film Trailer 'The Expedition'

Website Homepage Finished Product - Audience Feedback

Audience Feedback - What did you like about my website homepage and did it conform to the drama genre?

• "The title on the website stands out well, the white against the black background works and gives it a strong effect."
• "The name on the site matches the style of the name on the trailer and film poster."
• "I love the red 'cracks' that you've put in the 2 corners of the title, it adds something different and gives it a slightly eerie feel which then matches the narrative of a girl gone missing."
• "It looks like a really professional site. It has all the realistic features you would expect to see such as the menu, the sign up option and the social media links."
• "The automatic gallery is a really good idea, I like how it moves on its own making the site look really interactive."

Anything I could improve on?

• "I preferred your original title where it had an eroded/splattered blood look." = My response to this - "I chose to change the title as it felt like a horror website rather than a drama."

Second Film Poster Draft

The first film poster I sent out got mixed reviews. Despite the positives, there were a lot of things that I could improve on. I took this constructive criticism and changed the elements that I felt necessary.

• The first change I made was changing the date from a numerical format to, 'Coming Soon', I felt it looked more visually appealing than the number.
• Secondly, I moved the text higher up to give the poster a more spacious look and feel. The text 'From the director of...' I moved up slightly so that it came into contact with the sun ray on the main image. I liked the reflective effect that it gave the text.
• I then added a tagline. This is a common convention of film posters and I didn't consider it before now. I added this to give the audience more of a feeling as to what the narrative was about and felt it acted as a good 'hint'. I made this in a different font because I wanted the audience to be able to tell that this text was a tagline and so served a different purpose than the other text. On top of this, I changed the opacity of the tagline to give it a fading out effect. I did this as I felt is further emphasised the mysteriousness and also showed off more of my technical abilities.

Film Trailer Finished Product - Audience Feedback

Target Audience Feedback at the first screening of my trailer; 

• "You got the feeling that it was a drama just from the first 10 seconds in, clear representation and conformation to the genre style."
• "Had an emotional feel to it that made you get engulfed into the trailer and feel like you were apart of it, you felt like you were in the trailer and the tense yet soft music helped draw you in."
• "The music suited the footage and made it flow really easily, it was lovely to watch."
• "I connected to the character straight away, it was clear he was looking for the girl on the missing persons poster, and because it wasn't clear what relation he has with the girl it makes me really eager to see the actual film to find out what happens."
• "The film reviews that were included from magazines and newspapers made it feel like a real trailer - it also matches the style of the website homepage because that has reviews on it as well"
• "You clearly kept the continuity to a high level for all 3 products, you have made their similarities really clear"
• "I found it very realistic and there was nothing far-fetched in it, really dramatic"
• "The editing was smooth and there were no jumps that ruined the flow of it. The fade-in-fade-out transitions really worked"
• "I liked the quote from another director, gave it a realistic feel"
• "It looked like a real trailer, the text bits in between all used the same black background and white font which made it have an organised and professional feel"