Evaluation questions

This is the key for our evaluation questions. Where a question has been answered, it will be in the colour of the question.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

What have you learned through audience feedback?

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Binding is now on Digg!

As you can see (image after the jump), 'Binding's You Tube video has been added to Digg.com, allowing us to share our teaser trailer with the world. We currently have 3 diggs within the first couple of minutes. Digg also allows users to comment. Please digg us!

POSTER

We have finally managed to upload our final poster!

Previously the title was white, however, we changed the colour to red to signify blood. This is a generic convention of the horror genre.

The quote from Empire is also in red so that the colour scheme is continued throughout the poster. Empire is a very popular film magazine; one of the most read in the country.

The actresses' names are at the top. We gave them equal billing as they are both unknown. However, we used Alice for the final poster as the film primarily revolves around her.

The poster also uses the ideas shown in the teaser trailer of 'Catherine' staring. We used the image in the website, poster and teaser trailer.

Website is up!

Our website is now finished!
My role in creating the website has been to design and make the website with Stef. We used the images that Nat edited as well as adding our own colour effects. We sourced the pictures for the links and used hyperlinks so when the website went live, they would work. We took a decision to make a change from the original design by adding individual red boxes for the tab bar instead of a continuous vine. This decision was made as we decided that it look to overpowering and there would be too much vine. We used the title that Nat created for the film.
Jack then took the website that Stef and I had created, embedded the YouTube video and added vines around it. He purchased the domain name bindingfilm.info and put the website live.
The website that Stef and I made, with help from Nat and Jack reflects our teaser trailer, through the colour scheme as well as the use of photos of the actresses.
Helena

Finished

Today, Stef and I rerecorded the girls' dialogue for the teaser trailer. We had to do this as the sound that was picked up by the camera was not loud enough and so meant that it was difficult to hear, especially with the non-diegetic background music playing.
We then edited the recorded speech so the onscreen characters were lip-syncing and our teaser trailer is now finished. Tomorrow we will burn it onto a DVD and then uploaded it to YouTube.

Helena

New Media

I created a new Facebook group for our film with the title of the film in it, as the previous group was created when we did not have a film title.
I also created a new Twitter account for the film as the previous twitter account had the wrong film names and not all tweets were appropriate for the film.
These will help promote the film as well as the poster and website.
Helena

BBFC 12 Logo

Through our research, it was deemed appropriate to display a BBFC logo displaying the certification of the film. As the designs show, this will be in the footer.

Guys: Is this what we want? As you can see, no background. (Images after the jump)




Black and white:


Jack

New producers...

We have decided to not use Hammer Productions for our teaser trailer as it does not truly encompass the type of film ours is. Instead, we are going to use Lionsgate and BBC film. BBC film suits our teaser trailer is not a big budget one, meaning it could easily be a BBC film. Lionsgate was used as it is known for producing horror films. Here are the logos for these two companies:

Stef

Hammer Productions

I was looking for the Hammer Productions logo as we decided that as Hammer Productions is a well known horror film company and would be suitable for our horror film. I found this logo which would go well in our website.

Guys, is this the Hammer Productions logo we were looking for?

Stef

Original website

Here is our original idea for the website. This was the first rough draft we came up with and we have made a few developments since.
The title "Binding" will be at the top of the website. This will be the logo that Nat created, that will also be on our poster and teaser trailer.

Directly beneath this will be a vine running accross the entirety of the page with leaves attached. These leaves will have titles to links such as "News" etc.
Our teaser trailer itself will be embedded in the center of the page and will be surrounded by leaves and vines to carry on with the binding theme of the film.
We were going to have just one of our actresses on the side of the page with only half of her face showing, an idea we were going to continue to the poster, however, we changed this to include both actresses either side of the website. Lexie who plays "Mary" will be looking at Alice, who plays "Catherine", at the other side of the website. "Catherine" will be looking directly at the viewer to make them feel a sense of unease.
Undeneath the trailer will be the "Hammer Productions" logo, the certificate 15 information and any other further information such as the date of release etc.
On the right of the website will be links to our Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts so fans can keep up with the film's progression.
This plan may change as we carry on to develop the website but this was the rough idea we had!
Helena created this plan and I helped her to add a few things and the drawings. I also tooks the photos to be used. Nat cropped out photos and edited them onto the website and Jack created the vines around the teaser trailer.
Stef

Start of the website

With our final design (shown below) we have started to create the website.


Stef and I created the template and layout of the website in publisher. We decided to go for a black background due to the title being black and white as continuity is important for the genre.

Nat edited the pictures so that they could be used in the website and this is the stage we are currently.

An idea we had for the website was for Alice (on the left) to be made black and white or the colour to be dimmed. This is the basic outline so far and we will add more in to make it reflective of a film website such as the age certificate. We will also add links to Twitter, YouTube and Facebook as the majority of films advertise this way as well using a website.

Helena

Photos for poster

We took the photographs for our poster and website yesterday. These are a few of those taken that will be transfered onto a forest background to create our poster. We took shots of both the actresses together and also individual shots that can be used on the website. We took a few ones of Lexie looking in different directions in case we change the positioning of the two actresses. This will help us to save time as if we come across any problems, we have a variety of shots to choose from.

Stef