Evaluation

Evaluation

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

The opening of our thriller has been made to be stereotypical of the conventions of the thriller genre. Our thriller does not change the conventions of a typical thriller although it does we are introduced to two characters and do not know how the antagonist is and who the protagonist are. We have made a variety of shots containing many camera angles that create a sense of suspense. The non-diegetic sound added to the opening gives the suspense and tension needed in a thriller. The non-diegetic sound also gave a hint as to what direction the scene was going in and this also helps the audience to realize what is happening within the opening. We used some of the shots used in se7en mainly the extreme close-up shots on relevant objects in the opening sequence. The opening of our thriller contains a lot of shots of objects and shots to capture the reactions of characters in the scene. 

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The social group that was represented in the opening is teenagers. The gender is represented in a typical way because it shows how teenagers are reckless, impulsive and unaware of the consequences of their actions. The target audience would be people aged 16 and above and I feel that it links to the audience because for the most part it related to most of their personal lives. 

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Our film has been made as a mainstream film so we feel that it should be distributed by institutions such as Revolver and Film 4. We have come to this decision because these institutions have experience in distributing films like this and have been successful with it. With films such as “28 Days later” and “Kidulthood”. We felt that our thriller would be a TV movie because it seems like a thriller the whole family could enjoy. I feel that it would be released it does offer merchandise of props from the film such as masks, T-shirts and other memorabilia.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

We feel that this film should be rated 15 because it is a thriller and in contains some strong violence that would not be appropriate for younger viewers we also rated it at 15 because the story line is a little complex and younger viewers may not get it.  We think that our film would be targeted at a unisex audience because it the film relates to both genders but it would mostly attract a male audience because it is mainly filmed from a male’s point of view and there is a lot of violence and blood which may not attract the female audience. 

Films that are similar to ours are films like Kidulthood which appealed to the teenage audience because it was a film that they could relate to and dealt with situations that teenagers go through. And 28 Days later which appealed to teenagers and young adults because it was a thriller and the story line was interesting because of its different twists and turns it also did not stick to the traditional conventions of a thriller because of its setting and how it was filmed. 

How did you attract/address your audience?

there are particular sections of the opening that are supposed to appeal and to terrify my audience. the film is rated 15 and it appeals to that age because it starts of by showing the everyday life of average teenagers. it also terrifies its audience because it the film takes what is supposed to be a joke and turns it into something deadly. 

the film does not exactly put the audience in the position of any character it is filmed in a neutral point of view  and lets the the audience watch from a neutral point of view and lets the audience watch as the story unfolds. the camera work is neutral so their are a lot of mid-shots and long shots that shows everything that is going on as the film is going. 

having the film done in the neutral point of impacts the audience because it makes it seem like there are in the film and the are involved in what happens to the different characters. 

having the film filmed from a neutral point of view does not stick to the generic conventions of a thriller because it shows what the characters are going to do. there are some aspects of the film that does stick to the conventions of a thriller because although the audience knows what is going to happen the audience does not know how it is going to happen.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product

the strengths of the camera equipment where that the cameras where handheld so we where able to capture some of the shots that we would not have if it was a standard camera such as point of view shots and make the camera jerky so the audience felt like they where the characters in the film. one of the weaknesses of the camera equipment was that we where not able to edit lighting so we had to film where the lighting was good. 

problems that we faced was that we where had different subjects that and we had trouble finding the time do any filming. we resolved this issue by working outside of college hours.  another problem we faced was finding the most appropriate places to film our thriller we where able to resolve this issue by filming in a location that was outside of college.

when using final cut pro we learnt that the editing of a thriller was important because it put together all the shots and made them make sense. it also made the opening flow as it went from one shot to another. one of the effects that we found useful was the fade to black effect this was useful for creating suspense so that  the audience is left in the dark about what was about to happen. Another effect that we found useful was the bad TV effect this was used as a transition from the actual film to the credits.

Garage band  was a useful programme for creating a sound track for the opening it was useful because it helped create suspense. the only challenge we faced when using the programme was making the sound track go with the film.

Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

the research into the thriller genre was useful because it showed us that there where different styles of thrillers and they where filmed in different ways. The research  helped us decide what type of thriller we where going to film it also helped the planning of our thriller what our thriller would be about and how we would film the thriller. The research also helped with some of the different camera shots that we used in the making of our thriller. The planning helped because we knew how what shot we needed to do, how many characters and the props needed. 

after using the equipment we feel more confident in filming because we know how to use the the equipment and what its different features are.

we feel that the end product did fulfill the task because it fulfilled the the task at hand and we kept the the main conventions of the thriller and we added our own twist to the thriller.