EVALUATION

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

I have used red titles to symbolise blood and danger, the audience will then know there's bound to be twists. I've also used non diegetic music which sounds like a little girl singing about death, it's very eerie, and also goes well with the stroyline, it is therefore conventional for a typical thriller. Sounds similar to this are used in the opening sequence of Red Dragon to help create tension.
Flashing images are used to portray to the audience that the film is a thriller, it symbolises the young girls mind, how there's so much going on in her head and how confused she is. Images similar are used in the opening sequence of Seven.
Red lipstick is used as the young girls symbol, this is a connotation of death and violence. When she kills she leaves a kiss on the victims faces.
Our thriller film challenges the thriller convention by incorporating what should be the end of the film as the opening shot so throughout my production the audience will be trying to work out what has happened, this conforms with the 'enigma' theory, the audience not knowing what to expect.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The characters I have used in my production are all of a white middle class family. The parents previously abused their daughter which is very unconventional for a thriller as an audience woluld usually expect somebody of a different culture ethnicity and social class to have been the killers rather than their own family. It's also very common for the perpetrators to be of a working class which also proves my film to be unconventional.


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

Film 4 would distribute my film as they mainly focus a lot on youth audience, which I thought would be a good target audience for my film. They make a lot of low budget films, don't particulary focus a lot on how much money they spend but more the storylines and different ways to attract the audience. It also gives a chance to new and up and coming film makers which is basically myself.


4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

I will generally be targeting my film at teenage males and females of any ethnicity, class and social grade, with the film having a 15 certificate. I want the main character to almost mirror the target audience we aimed for so they would be able to put themselves in the portragonists shoes and really get into the film.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

I tried to attract my audience by having a gripping and exciting storyline that could possibly happen in every day life. Th opening shot of the film will shock the audience, which will grab their attention and make them watch the whole of my opening sequence. I used very interesting music which could also grip the audience even more. The locations I wused caried very often which the audience may find interesting and the large variety of shots I have used could appeal to them.

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

I became familiar with basic shots and camera movement which I've used within my film, having never learnt any of it before. I also learnt panning, tilting, match on action and framing our shots through doing our preliminary task.
To edit, I've had to use FinalCut Pro, which is the first time I've used the program, so I have learnt how to drag and drop, put transitions between shots, rendering, also how to put the credits on, overlapping different shots, speeding shots up aswell as slowing them down.
I used blogspot which came in handy as it helped to structure my ideas and put together my final piece. I've learnt how to set up a blog, add posts and also embed videos and images.

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

From the preliminary task I have learnt how the video camera works and how to achieve different shots I wanted from the different angles. I've learnt about match on action and never to break the 180 degree rule whilst filming my footage. I learnt how to film a shot reverse shot which I then incorporated into my film to make it look as if she closer the girl got the more pain she was putting the victims through. I added zooms in and out using the camera, of the newspaper articles that the girl had collected. I also filmed an establishing shot as it helped to set the scene and show the surrounding areas.
I have learnt a lot from my mistakes and then applied my knowledge to my final piece.