Evaluation Notes

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

- Title, character, date

- Refer to animatic

- Codes and conventions

- The female character being portrayed as the weaker sex and the victim – common in thrillers.

-  The Stereotypical representation of men and women

- How the use of sound, lighting and props/costume/location etc have been used to create suspense and tension

- The narrative is very similar to most thrillers with the subgenre of physiological/horror

- The way in which men are portrayed and represented in our film as the more dominate, strong and aggressive sex – portrayed in a negative way through killing people.

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

- Men dominant – female passive

- The classic ‘white male stalker/killer’

- Classic ‘brown haired pretty female’

- Female youth represents being young and stupid, fear and confusion

- Male youth represents obsession, jealousy and protectiveness over women

- Highlights the actions and emotions of young people

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

- TV Movie

- Holds a good level of narrative and is of a high enough quality to go into the cinema – many films with similar narrative have made it to the cinema – Friday 13^th, House of wax.

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

- Audience research – BBFC

- Film competitors

- What other films are similar to yours, who do they relate to?

- Both male and female audience

- 15+ audience as this is who we aimed our thriller at, hence the content level. Also they would understand the storyline and could relate to the actions, possibly the experience and emotions involved.

- People who are the same ages as the characters in our thriller

 

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

- Researched the themes linked to our chosen genre - psychological thriller

- Created and carried out a questionnaire - asked our target audience what they would like to see etc

- Watched and analysed other professional openings of the same genre. E.g. Those by M Night Shyamalan.

 

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

- The software used Premier Pro and Adobe After Effects used was very useful and effective for editing and adding extra effects to our film opening

- The differences in quality of cameras - high definition cameras compared to normal

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

- Using different shot angles and shot types

- Getting rid of shots that aren’t necessary

- Adjusting or changing shots can be extremely effective and can look so much better

- Using the woods as location can be very repetitive if not filmed correctly and can be very over used.