Evaluation question 4 How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Evaluation question 3 Audience Reactions

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 2 How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Evaluation Question 1 How does your film follow or challenge established media conventions

Makeup

There are many techniques that makeup artists can use to help make characters more realistic and animated. From simply adding blush to make the lighting reflect better off of the actors face to completely remodelling the actors face using clay moulds and prosthetics to create fantastic creatures and hideous monsters, here are a few of the simpler tricks that can be used to change a persons appearance.

Firstly makeup pencils are used for drawing on eyebrows to help accentuate emotions

  

Secondly stickers can be applied to the eyelids to add or remove wrinkles

Then eyeliner can be applied to darken the area around the eyes and add mystery

Obviously lipstick can be added to bring more attention to that area

Foundation can also be applied to change skin tone and cover blemishes

Different blushes can also be applied to give a natural range of skin colours

Lighting

Lighting

Romance Lighting

Comedy Lighting

Horror Lighting

The lighting that is used in any production is vitally important to creating an emotional response with the audience. Lighting can be used to highlight features on the faces of the actors or to hide props or pieces of set. But the most common and perhaps most important is the use of lighting to create mood and establish tone. For instance in horror movies such as my own the lighting is normally very dark to reveal less to the audience and thus make them afraid. However in comedies and romance the lighting is often very bright to create a feeling of warmth and openness. These techniques can be used to great affect in trailers because it immediately gives the audience a feeling of what the overall tone of the movie will be.

This is a standard lighting setup and one which I would like to replicate within my own film. Whilst I may lack the funding for the exact same lighting setup I will very much try to place my own lighting equipment in a similar layout to this.

Props

Props

Theatrical Property or props are normally considered to be anything on stage that can be moved that are distinct from the characters costumes and the set. Props are a powerful tool that can be used to provoke emotional response, further the narrative or add depth to a character. I intended to use several props in my film however I am unsure as to how many I will include them within my trailer. For instance one prop I am sure I will use is the laptop/typewriter. This prop is designed to establish the belief that the character is a writer without having to denote it. This happens because the laptop symbiotically linked to the audiences’ perception of what writers do. The method for determining the audiences’ reaction to different objects or symbols is called structuralism which is also the name of the belief that humans only understand what is around them because of the connections that they build with other objects. The props that I was unsure weather to include the empty whisky bottles because I was unsure weather or not to introduce the alcoholic aspect of the character in the trailer before the audience has fully grasped the intimacies and motivations behind this addiction. Overall I believe prop selection will have to be limited to only the most important of props to avoid overloading the audience with too much detail without any information to contextualize it.