1)In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
We tried to ensure that our narrative formatted conventional thrillers. For our sequence we decided to ensure that the killer could not be seen. We also tried to make it as realistic as possible to make it more effective on our target audience. The concept of our thriller was of a working class teenage girl walking home being chased by a hunter. For the majority of the opening sequence you do not see the killer, the killer is represented by handheld camera shots and point of view shots to signify that the camera is the person. This kind of filming was inspired by such films like “The Blair Witch Project”
To see example of handheld camera shots and points of view shots this is the link for the trailer of the “The Blair Witch Project” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfnXbXKi2-s
2)How does your media product represent particular social group?
Our media product represents people from the ages of 16-30 we ensure that it had all the findings that we had researched via interviews and questionnaires. The actress we had playing the victim was a young urban teenager which we thought it would help them relate which is a typical convention within at the thriller genre because a young woman is typically the “damsel in distress” and is normally the first victim and is seen as dumb because they die in the most pathetic way i.e. they will trip over a lead and will start to crawl and the killer will get them. Our thriller sequence finishes with our protagonist being killed by her pursuer which verifies the stereotype of young women to be seen as helpless.
3)What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Our sequence is likely to be distributed by UK media institutions such as working title but the funding would have to come from an American film studio which will help fund the advertising, the production and the filming. I think that working title would be interested in distributed our media product because it is a typical British film which shows social realism. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is likely to be classified as a rating of 15 this would mean that no person under the age of fifteen years is to see, buy or rent the film. The reason for this classification is because it has quite a bit of violence and gore which could be seen as too explicit for the people under the age of fifteen.
4)Who would be the audience for your media product?
Looking at our research we found that most people liked thrillers that showed naturalism something that could be seen happening in their everyday life which would make the opening sequence have more of an impact on our audience rather than a film which had a lot of surrealism within it. Hence why we tried to make our sequence as realistic as possible, so the audience could feel like that it could happen to them. Looking at our interviews and our questionnaire we saw that people liked thrillers that had a lot of suspense and tension.
5)How did you attract/address your particular audience?
We attracted our target audience by advertising our film in places where our target audience is likely to see it for example: social networking websites and posters in places where they would be aware of our product.
The characters are relatable to the audience because they may feel that they can relate to the characters which I think will attract our target audience.
6)What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
The editing software helped enhance our final product because we were able to use very good transitions to make our final product look more appealing to the target audience. Mostly for our opening sequence we used point of view shot which i think we mastered well and We had a few challenges but with the help of having the editing software we were able to merge things together and make our opening sequence look good. We also had a lot of handheld techniques and we used a tripod for a few bits of our opening sequence i.e. when the teenage girl is waiting for the bus. We were able to find the appropiate music to connote each particular mood in this case it helped build supsense and tension and kept the audience at the edge of their seats.
7)Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I have learnt that making a film takes a lot of time and planning and if not done well the film is unlikely to be a success. Also the use of camera work is very important because each type of shot connotes something to the audience. Actors are also a very crucial essential to a successful film; the actors have to make the acting believe for it to have an effect on the audience. Our original idea was to have a group of teenagers at a house prank calling people and they start to call a strange teenager who turns out to be a killer, he starts to pick them off one by one. Sadly, we had to change our idea because there was a lack of organisation within the group and it was hard to get hold of another house, this has taught me to ensure that we have other ideas initially just in case the first idea goes wrong because that would of saved us a lot more time and we could have improved on our final product. I have also learnt how to blog my work onto a website and add hyperlinks.
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