Some stuff.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Use:
- Sci fi; alien, makeup, astronaught, foreign planet
- Film noir; lighting, shaddows
- Length of film based on other teaser trailers (most between 1-2 mins)
- Use of enigma
- Epic music, overdramatic
- Love, there is usually a romantic interest in sci fi (e.g. Avatar)
- Name of film left unsaid, like Cloverfields.
Challenge:
- Instead of having the alien as an enemy, the government is the enemy
- A story told from the past, usually in present time.
- Mainly taking place on earth without any kind of war
- Actor interviews on website; shows the production of the ancillary product. Actors are actors and the characters are not real.
- Little information given about the story on the poster

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
Good:
- Similar colour scheme + theme of eyes
- Each refers to another (i.e. video=website=twitter=video=website=poster)
- Tried to keep it all enigmatic, eyes again.
- Same actors in reviews on website, in poster etc..
What we would change to make it better:
- More emphasis on music
- website name on poster

What have you learned from your audience feedback?
- Sound levels are very important
- If you have a shot that is too long, the audience concentrates on it (there was a shot rachel going up a ladder, they thought she was struggling)
- Older men with white hair and glasses are usually interpreted as proffessors.

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research,
-Youtube to see trailers and length of trailers - TV for average advert lengths
- Film noir and Sci fi conventions - Watching Sci Fi films - Moon,
- Look at other film websites
- Find a free website server
- View posters online