In What ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
§Our thriller compare to other thrillers because when watching the young actor who we have used goes missing and we show this at the beginning but we don’t show him for a while so this makes the audience wonder where he’s gone. We did this to put the audience on edge, and I believe it does this.
§We see in the film a figure nearer to the end, this also makes the audience ask questions as to who this is, since we can’t see the face of this person very clearly.
§When planning our thriller we wanted to set it in a house, this meant the lighting continuity isn’t as much of a problem, we also wanted a young child in our thriller because they are more venerable.
§I think the opening to our thriller really works, with the match on action. This works well because of the different shots took from different angles. An example of this would be when the mother is walking up the stairs, and we have used different shots to capture it at different points.
§We put that certain music on because we thought it fit in with our film and it built suspense too.
§In the thriller, we have used a figure which we see walking down the street, you cant tell if this figure is a male or female, although we went with the idea of the figure being a man, this is mainly because men are seen as being the stronger sex.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
•I think our film would target the teenage audience this would be because the teenage market like the films to freak them out and make them scared
•Another reason is, I don’t think this film would be appropriate for children because the character which is in danger in our film is a child, so the children watching could get too scared.
•Another reason I think children would not like this is because its set in a house environment so they might not feel safe at home if they watch this.
•When we researched other films there wasn’t any young boys being kidnapped, so we decided to use this so it was different.
•Also we used the young boys real mother in the filming, to make it more comfortable for the young boy.
•I believe if our film was in the cinema, it would be in more mainstream cinema because it follows the same theme as other films which are in the mainstream cinema because it would appeal to a large audience not just a small audience.
•It holds some of the same aspects of professional films, this would be another reason for it being appropriate for the mainstream cinema.
•The aspects which follows through the professional films would be things like the suspense and also some of the camera angles and the match-on-action.
•Our film represents children being venerable, they aren't as aware of danger compared to adults
•Main character being a woman because they are also venerable.
•Male villain because they are stereotypically the stronger sex, and are known to have more control.
•Our sequence is focusing more on the build up and suspense, which is why our characters don’t get injured or killed in this particular part of the film. Instead it builds suspense and makes you ask questions.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
If our film were to be instituted I would want Film 4 to be our institute. Mainly because they advertise well and also make the films they believe are good enough to be made big, for example Jaws, which is instituted by Film 4.
If we were to advertise our film our self, i don’t think we would be able to fund it in order to make it big and popular. So the best option would be to advertise it through Film 4. The reason being, people are used to watching films made by Film 4, so they will listen to the advert more if it's advertised by them. I would prefer our film to be on the Film 4 channel on T.V this is mainly because people can watch this when at home rather than going to the cinema to watch this. Also being this is a 15 certificate we wouldn’t have much control with the film being at home, except the password in order to use Sky Films. Although if adults are with the under 15's then it’s their choose to let the children watch the film.
Who would be your audience for your media product?
•When planning and making our film we wanted our target market to be the teenage audience.
•We think our film will appeal to both male and females.
•We used a young boy and a woman in the opening of our thriller, which will continue to be the main characters through-out our film.
•I wouldn’t recommend our film to the young audience, because the victim is a young boy and could relate this to them.
•Another reason would be the young children wouldn’t want to watch this because it’s a family environment and this could cause them to feel unsafe in their own home.
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How did you attract/address your audience?
•When targeting our market we carried out a questionnaire, which we handed out around the college, since this was our target market. We had these filled in and we then collated the results and put these on our blogs in the form of charts.•The way in which we made it target the teenage audience would be, we tried to put the audience on edge, but not too much that we made them feel uncomfortable.
At the end of our filming, we did another questionnaire, this was to get feedback on our Thriller. (You can see this questionnaire and the first one on another part of our blog) This helps us because the next time we film, we can use this feedback to make the product more appropriate for the target audience.
What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression to the full product?
VOICE RECORDING
•I definitely believe we have improved from the first task we did, which was ‘walking through the door task’ I think doing that first task It taught us about the cameras so we were ready to do this Thriller.
•In the walking through the door task we learnt the basics on the cameras where as in this task we learnt more, and have educated ourselves with the camera.
•I believe the shots we used where good enough, I just don’t think they gave the overall message across very well.
•Another problem we faced was the length of our Thriller, we had to re-film several times because the film was too short, so we needed to film more shots, and make it longer.
•This is so we could portrayy the family life image, and something coming to disrupt this.
