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Electronic Evaluation Final

Here is the Electronic Evaluation as I promised earlier, but unfortunately I show it to you Via a copied link as "blogger" was taking a while to actually upload the video on to blogger, so I had to go back to basic's and just add link straight to it. Here is the link below, enjoy and like it!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgfWeom-cVo&feature=youtu.be

Electronic Evaluation Update!

The Electronic Evaluation for our film has been delayed, as to upload the video directly on to blogger was to much for a "Post". We shall be putting it on YouTube to let people watch it from there. I will put a link in a separate Post to where the video is located on YouTube.

Dirty Diamonds Shot List

Teaser Trailer

When looking through a lot of the footage we have from the past 7-8months I found footage from when we wanted to create a short teaser trailer for Dirty Diamonds. The teaser trailer would be Dirty Derrick talking directly to the camera before killing the person who the viewer is seeing a Point Of View (POV) shot from. This teaser trailer would not be a scene from the film but a trailer to create interest and hype for the feature length film by showing the main character and the type of person he is. A teaser trailer is usually released a long time before the film and main trailer(s) and purpose is to create an audience, inform people, create hype and start an advertising campaign- this is very important in making your film successful at the box office.
I decided to edit the footage we already had to create a short teaser trailer for the film as we didn't want the footage to go to waste and it would not take long to edit.

Using Microsoft word I  created an information card that would be displayed at the end of the trailer showing the name of the film, when it is due for release and the website/facebook adress which would allow the audience to learn more about the upcoming film. I also placed an age restriction card and our company logo at the start and end of the teaser trailer. In order to create a better impact on the audience I added sound effects at the end of the trailer using to soundboard built into iMovie.

Many films and TV series use these kinds of teaser trailers in their advertising campaigns, one example I found was for the TV series 'Breaking Bad' created by Sony. They created a a teaser trailer online that the viewer could interact with allowing them to make decisions for the person held captive by the lead character 'Walter White', in this trailer Walter White talks directly to us the viewer. This trailer was created to attract an audience before the start of season 2. This is a YouTube link to the trailer- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpHhjToM6qI

I have uploaded the Dirty Diamonds teaser trailer I created to YouTube: 

Evaluation is complete !

I have now finished editing the electronic evaluation with no problems and the three of us answered the fourth and last question about technologies. Also today in school me and Rudi began editing the four questions speech and trying to shorten the 40minutes of audio down to 20 which was a challenge as we had to rid of a lot of good information. Rudi has now taken the questions home to finish editing which should not take long- we decided that I would upload the first 8 minutes onto YouTube and then Rudi would download it to his laptop to add to the other half of the evaluation tonight once the last question is complete and we have one complete file of about 28minutes long. We believe that the YouTube time limit for our account is 20minutes so we may need to have the evaluation across two separate videos.

As soon as Rudi has finished the fourth and final question Myself or Rudi will upload it to Youtube and Blogger hopefully this will be tomorrow.  We faced a few problems doing this evaluation but it is finally complete and the three of us hope it is very descriptive and creates a good understanding of how we created Dirty Diamonds.

A few screenshots:

Updated teaser poster

I showed our original teaser poster to our class for some feedback in order to improve it if they had any suggestions. Our class gave us some good feedback with many different points:

The class stated that the logo on our original poster didn't look good as it had more color that the poster and some people thought that it looked like a person holding a gun. We agreed that the logo didn't look the best so we decided to use two different logos one for 'sharkbite' and one for 'sound sheriff' as they were both black & white and also looked very suitable- we placed these in the bottom left and right corner.

Someone in our class also suggested that we add a date for the films release or at least mention a time period is due for release so we added 'In Theaters 2014' to the poster I believe this has made the poster look better as it isn't as plain as it was previously.

Another person in our class suggested that we mention something about ourselves the producers in order to help attract an audience who may know our previous products. We decided to add 'From the producers of million dollar punch' at the top of the poster to show the previous film we created. I am glad we did this as it has hugely improved the look of our poster with more detail.

The three of us in the group also decided that we should change the logo a little bit, James had the idea of having two paralleled lines on the top and bottom of our poster to make it look better. After trying this we all agreed that it looks far better as it looks slightly more stylish and better placed so we have kept it in our poster.

I believe that our new poster looks far better than our previous one and I am happy with the work we have done. The feedback from the class helped us create this new poster so was very helpfull.