evaluation question 1

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

6. what have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing the product?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

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

question 3 - what  kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
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2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

In our preliminary task we had to create a short clip with a character sitting across from another character with some monologue. We learnt a lot on the preliminary especially about having to match up the shots so things don't double take.


A shot we used in our film was the door one which we learnt in the preliminary exercise.

 - This is the shot we used in the preliminary

- This is the shot we used in our official film



As you can tell both shots are similar we really liked the idea of the audience seeing the characters hand on the door as it looks as though the audience is behind them as a guest.

The only thing we really used which we didn't in our preliminary is the blur around the edge of our film. We didn't really mess around with the effects during our prelimnary. However, we obviously did in our film.

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

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5) How did you attract/address your audience?

I think we reached our target audience as when the question what age range majority said 15+ and that is what we set it as so that was really good.

We made sure our actors and actresses where at a young age this is so that the younger audience could relate to the characters better as I believe that if the actors where older the younger audience would find it harder to relate.



The audience feedback was really good especially on the title they said the title was suspicious and mysterious. Also, they said it drew the audience in. That is very good as that's what we wanted, we wanted to title not to give the audience too much away.

I think we could have picked up that pace or added music to during all the commotion. Or even filmed at night to create more of an intense environment. The audience feedback expressed nearly the exact same, which again make it more productive.

 

 

I think that the work didn't really need improvement to say it was any of our first times every creating a film, I really think we did it justice. Overall the film was what we wanted and it was exactly as how we planned.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Our target audience would be 15 – 35+ years. It couldn’t be less than 15 Years old as there is violent scene and also some strong language.

It doesn’t really matter about gender in our film, as it’s not really a major key. However, most of the authority roles a played by women, so for women watching they may be a sense of power. However, for the men it shows how one man will do anything to clear his name with violence and raunchy scenes. From our audience feedback we found that our audience would be the older range of teenagers. We also looked into to other films similar for example; The Fugitive it is rated 15 Years also we looked at rating to see if the film was liked and as its been out around 21 years the results where strong for example IMDb gave The Fugitive 7.8/10 this helped us as it showed that people do like psychology thrillers.

Our film is a psychology thriller people who like this genre will like our film as it has all the iconography of a psychological thriller.

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

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

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

When we decided to have our film tell the story, we decided on a non-linear structure since it doesn't stay in the present day, but is explained with flash backs of the protagonist and slowly unravels throughout. It uses the conventions of a psychological thriller in that it follows the same narrative. In the beginning of the film the first thing that is seen by the audience is a low angle which only shows two people legs, this shot was used as it keeps the audience guessing for a few seconds and it doesn’t establish characters immediately unlike most conventional films. Most films establish the character with their faces straight away but we wanted to make sure that the voice over was heard first so that the audience would want to put a face to the voice, making it much more mysterious and make the audience connect to the protagonist

 This is a similar shot to our film again it makes the audience very curious as you can't see the characters face, but only there legs. So the only thing the audience have to judge the character are his/her shoes. 







We really wanted the audience to feel as though the protagonist had a long journey, which they were on with him so we thought that the corridor could represent Darren Walker long untold ordeal. Also to make it feel as though it was Darren Walkers judgement day. The shot shows that Darren Walker is a prisoner and that he’s been escorted down a long plain corridor 

We really wanted the audience to relate to Darren Walkers story so we decided an establishing shot of him driving in to his drive way as if it was just a ‘typical day’ and try make it as normal as possible. We used a pan to establish the street and his house and to show Darren Walkers home and to make it look very homely. We really liked the idea of representing as middle class man who people could relate to him. We also used a blur around the frame this was to show that it wasn’t happening now, but to show the audience that it was a memory. We especially wanted to make the blur noticeable as it really made the audience focus on the centre of the whole screen.

I really liked how Tim Burton represented a suburban neighbourhood and how it looked friendly and boring so we tried incorporated this into our film. No one expects a murder to happen in a quiet neighbourhood, murders usually occur in ‘rough’ estates. Also, Tim Burton really represents the community and it really draws the audience in and makes the movie more relatable.

 We thought that it would look good if the title looked like a ripple in the water which could represent drips of blood from Lucy, it also connotes Darren Walkers like how one bad thing can effect everything like a ripple effect. It also represents the water running when Lucy dies in the shower.

We also made the writing long as it makes it very noticeable and the font really works as it looks as though it has been written by a type writer which associates with late 1900’s doctor notes or suicide   notes.

 The title sequence music is very different to the usual conventions it was a piano being played but in reverse this symbolised that the story was going to be told backwards also it really worked well to set a mysterious vibe, which would make the audience even more intrigued and make them carry on watching. 

Question 1

Media Evaluation Question 1

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

In the narrative we establish the plot before and after the title sequence which goes against some of the usual conventions where the plot may be established after a title sequence, like in ‘Seven’.

In our two minute opening sequence the plot is established with a significant event before the title sequence and then a complication afterwards – the death of the main characters’ wife is the significant event while the blame of the husband for killing his own wife is the complication.

Our film was designed to be linear but with events that would confuse the audience, as our film is a psychological thriller so it needs situations like this to be successful, making it non linear because we used a flash-backs to add to the psychological confusion however, like in Shutter Island where Teddy Daniels experiences brief flashbacks to events before the time the main film is set, as we had an establishing shot at the beginning of the main character driving to the house.

With our camera angles, shot movement and positions of the camera we generally changed the angle, height and position of the camera to also add to the confusion to carry on the theme of a psychological thriller. This is something usually found in horror films, but they can and usually are incorporated into psychological thrillers to add a more tense atmosphere, which in turn would cause the audience to jump. However we used it as a device to build the tension in the atmosphere, which is something that is found often in the darker genres of film.  

With the continuity and editing, we did a good job in terms of creating a smooth film – there weren’t many jumps in the final cut. The pacing and rhythm of our two minute opening was quite fast but it wasn’t choppy (at least not until the changing of the font, where for some reason we couldn’t get the font in the exact size and place as we wanted it.)

In the background of our two minute opening, in the beginning, the diegetic sound from a free music download website under the title of dramatic piano; we chose this piece of music because it helps to create the atmosphere build. It adds impact to the opening scene, which was something we wanted to achieve since our full film would have been designed to be fast paced. In the scenes before and after the title sequence, the sound heard is diegetic. We did this to make the film seem more real in a way, to try and immerse the audience more. However, this could have been achieved through silence. We added a voice over at the beginning to show the emotion that the main character is feeling and to make it more personal; this would have an immediate effect on the audience.

The ‘costumes’ used in the two minute film opening were all things that we owned ourselves. We were given different roles to play and we tried to show this through our clothing; such as the police officers were wearing black trousers and a formal wear top to show they we undercover police officers. The location was one of our group members’ houses, where most of the full film would have been set. Though, it is not completely unusual as films like 127 Hours and Harry Potter is mainly set in one specific location.

The props used were all bought ourselves or they were things that we had on hand at the location.

The font used in the title sequence was bold. The size of the font was around 16, while the main title was around 36. We used an effect on Final Cut Express to add an effect to the font that made it separate from the centre and fade outwards from the origin position.

In our two minute opening we didn’t have many pieces of iconography due to the fact that it’s difficult to do this with psychological thrillers at the beginning and it is about building up the psychological aspects slowly, so we only got three pieces of iconography. One of these was the lighting – our film looked very dark when the tension was increasing as the main character walked up the stairs (this can be linked to mise-en-scene too).

We also filmed a shot where there was an empty space next to the main character. This is a typical convention seen in horror and psychological thriller films as the empty space is designed to make the audience wary of something that may or may not “jump in” or appear on screen.