The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (more information)

As we already know The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a fantasy genre film directed by Peter Jackson. It was produced by New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 

collaboration with Wingnut Films. It was also distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a second film of three part adaptation based on novel The Hobbit written by  J. R. R. Tolkien .

The film starred big names such as :

• Ian McKellen
• Martin Freeman
• Benedict Cumberbatch
• Orlando Bloom
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Those are the actors that have been in the previous The Hobbit film and are recognisable within British audience. This is making sure that film will get it's money back.  

With the big success of The Hobbit we saw an introduction of many The Hobbit games and apps, both for android and ios users.

Here we can see of the app 'The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-Earth' which has hit top chart on app store. We can also see 'Lego: The Hobbit', game which has been out on ds intendo, x-box, ps3 and pc. It has been made in order to attract the younger audience into the franchise.

Furthermore, 'I see fire' was a song specially written for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug by a British song written and singer Ed Sheeran. This song not only appeared at the end of the film but also entered UK top charts at number 13 and New Zealand at number 1. 

It provided film with an advertisement as the song is giving audience clues about what is going to happen in the actual film. Also, it provided film with wider audience as Ed Sheeran's fans will go to see this film after hearing that he wrote a song about it. The song was released for a digital download on itunes and also to purchase with The Hobbit soundtrack. Official video for this song was released on YouTube at the same day as the song, so everyone had some kind of an access to it.

Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug & My Brother the Devil (BOX OFFICE UPDATE)

 

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Question 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in progression from it to full product?

Question 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Websites/Blog:

Before starting AS media, I wasn't scared of using new technologies as I've used editing software and Photoshop before in previous subjects. The first thing that we have looked at was creating a blog, it wasn't new to me as I had a blog before. I was happy that we are using blog instead of written work, as blog is so much easier and also more effective when it comes to handing in the work. The thing that I really like about blogger is that you can share your work with others. You can also look at others people work from the past so you get the idea of what kind of work you have to produce. Internet contains the information that you can't find in books, its relevant to the industry as more and more information are now publicised on internet. Those information can be updated and changed to fit the changes that the day brings. I've used blogger in the process of producing my magazine for research purposes. By the use of blogger I was able to plan exactly what I want my magazine to look like. On my blog we can find the research of existing magazines and flat plan. It was a necessary research that had to be done in order to come up with my final design of the magazine. Furthermore, I've also used google to do most of my magazine research. By the use of google I was able to find AP magazine which was an inspiration for my music magazine.

Before I've started to create my magazine I started to creating my magazine, I had to find out what should be the name for my music magazine. For that I've used poll-maker.com. This is a website that allows you to create a questionnaire which everyone can see and answer. The reason that I've used this website is because everyone can give me their answer and opinions. It is a great way to communicate with others as everyone is using internet in their everyday life.

Software: 

When it comes to creating of my magazine I have used only one main software which is adobe photoshop cs6. I have used this photoshop not only to adjust the look of photographs but also to create my whole magazine. As an art student I was quite comfortable with this task because using photoshop wasn't new to me. 

 I've decided to use photoshop instead of publisher as it give you much more options in terms of changing the looks of the layout and look of my photographs. I was able to adjust the way that my font looked like so there wasn't a need to use dafont.com or any other font creating website as I found out that it just wasn't needed.  I've used photoshop not only to create a layout but to also add text. I've decided not to use publisher to add columns as it was still possible to do on photoshop.

As I went along with creating my magazine I felt like I've developed my skills as creating my music magazine took me less amount of time than my preliminary task. I had a bigger understanding of the layout and looks. 

Question 6. on PhotoPeach

Question 5. How did you attract/address your audience?