Evalution Q4 How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Evalution Q3 What have you learned from audience feedback?

Evaluation Q2 How effective is the combination of your media product and ancillary texts?

Evaluation 1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Audience Response | Horror Trailer (2)

Audience Response | Horror Trailer (1)

Audience Response | Horror Poster (2)

Audience Response | Horror Poster (1)

Audience Response | Magazine Cover (2)

Audience Response| Magazine Cover (1)

Narrative structure: Pulp Fiction

Todorov's narrative structure

There is also evidence of Todorov's narrative structure in the used of an equilibrium, a disequilibrium and a new equilibrium.

Within Pulp Fiction there are many difference narrative structures with reference to Todorov's theory:

The first storyline with evidence of this narrative structure is the story of Vincent.

Tarontino  throughout Pulp Fiction, Tarontino split the entire film up into different stories, therefore narrative structure is present throughout the entire film, but particular Todorov's narrative structure is present in each different story throughout the film.

Narrative structure

"The way in which a story is told in both fictional and non-fictional media texts."

Vladimir Propp:
- He is a Russian critic and literary theorist.
- He proposed that it was possible to classify the characters and their actions into clearly defined roles and functions.
- Films such as Star Wars fit Propp's model precisely but a significant amount of recent films such as Pulp Fiction fit this model.

Propp's character role:
Victim
Hero
Villain
Donor
Dispatcher
False hero
Helper
Princess
Father

Tzvetan Todorov:
- Bulgarian literary theorist.
- Suggests most narratives start with a state of equilibrium in which life is 'normal' and protagonists happy.
- The state of normality is disrupted by an outside force.

Roland Barthes:
- French semiologist.
- Suggests that narrative works with five different codes which activates the reader to make sense of it.

Barthes codes:
- Action= A narrative device by which a resolution is produced through action.
- Enigma= Teases the audience by presenting a puzzle to solve.
- Symbolic= Connotation.
- Semic= Denotation.
- Cultural= The audience recognises as being part of culture.

Claude Levi-Strauss:
- Social anthologist. 
- Examines how stories unconsciously reflect the values, beliefs and myths of culture.
- These are usually expressed in the form of binary opposition. 

Binary oppositions:
Homesteaders-Native Americans
Christian-Pagan
Domestic-Savage
Weak-Strong
Garden-Wilderness
Inside society-Outside society

Evidence of filming

Costumes

For the trailer we decided on using everyday clothing as this was a simple way to show that our trailer is modern. We used the everyday clothing on the normal individuals however once the character changes and becomes possessed by the diary, we introduce a creepy, white gown as this is stereotypically a type of costume that is seen in trailers like this one.

Characters

As a group we decided that it would be a better idea to feature ourselves in the trailer, this would mean that we wouldn't have to rely on other people to be able to film whenever we needed too. I played the main role in the horror trailer and starred in the trailer quite a lot. Within the trailer I played the parts of a victim and a possessed character as this is one of the main conventions in a horror trailer. Jodie and Ashley were also used within the trailer as we needed a group of friends that lived together, these two only starred in the trailer for a short amount of time.

Props

• Journal
• Boxes
• Bags
• Furniture

Make up

Questionnaire results

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Questionnaire

 

Would you go and see this film?

Yes   No

 

Would you change anything about this horror poster?

Yes   No

 

Why?

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Genre theory

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