Audience Feedback.

Conclusions.
From looking at our audience feedback we found that we should of subverted more from the thriller genre and made it less apparent to what the killers intensions were, we could of done this at the end of our opening by not having the killer walking out the house with the knife in hand. This would of helped to leave the viewers in suspense at the end of watching our opening. We also found that another way that we could of improved the tension of our film could of been by giving the snakes less prevalence,  By doing this the we would of been able to focus more on the killer and the girl so the story line could of been made more clear for the viewers, it would also help the viewers to build relationships that they could relate to.

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

Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation
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How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation How did you address / attract your audience?

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

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

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Who would be the audience for your media product.

Evaluation

Evaluation

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

 When planning our media product we wanted to make sure we stuck to the typical conventions of a thriller film however also subvert from the genre subtly in order to make it more gauging for the audience to watch. we watched many different openings to films and found that the opening to 'Se7en' really inspired us.

 In this opening there was a fast paced change between to scenes that appeared to be very different from each other, one scene seemed fairly normal of making tea and flicking through a book, and one seemed to be quite odd a man cutting his finger tips. We decided to use this in our project as the two scenes juxtapose each other making the audience think about what is going on. However in our project we decided to make the odder scene more subtle in order to create more mystery. We also liked the idea quick, fast transitions as it fitted in as if it was a heart beat, which help to build tension for the audience as it speeded up, we implemented this into our film to help give this effect to our film.

 For our music we decided to stick to the normal conventions for thriller music being generally fairly simple and having a steady pace in order to help create tension. This music was very useful in helping to develop our thriller opening as it creates a kind of eerie feel to the atmosphere making people feel uncomfortable, this make the viewers aware something is to happen. We also created a almost humming sound using garage band and have this playing over this music too. By doing this tension is created as the constant hum makes us feel uncomfortable and makes the veiwers aware that there maybe an under lying problem.

Overall i feel that our media project conveys to most of the conventions of a thriller opening as it builds tension, and is fairly subtle with the story line not giving much away. We also used the innocence of children in our project to further aid the development of our thriller as we are again conforming to the genre, and also used the idea of a weird lonely man to be our psycho killer, however we do not make this apparent straight away, instead we make him seem fairly ordinary however we placed snakes around the scenes to demonstrate that there is something else going on with this man.

-Question 2: How does your product represent particular social groups?
Our media project involves two social groups being, school girls and older men. I think that our project represented them in the fairly stereotypical ways, especially in terms of the thriller conventions. We decided to choose to have the victim to be a young person in order to create vulnerability and innocence, we further added to this by also choosing it to be a girl. I think that this has represented the social group of school girls to be vulnerable innocent and un aware of the dangers around them. The second social group we used were lonely old men, i also think that we represented this social group fairly well as we showed him to be fairly weird by having him sit in his room alone, we also used the use of snakes to also demonstrate his creepiness. However i also feel as if we slightly subverted as we normally expect older people to be kind and gentle, which in our thriller he clearly is not.

Preliminary task evaluation.

For our preliminary task we had to show a conversation between two characters whist demonstrating various camera skills. These included things such shot reverse shot, and showing someone going through a door. However we did not include shot reverse shot as the shots,match on action, aswell as demonstrating the use of the 180 degree rule. however our shot reverse shot did not fit in with the scene, and so we decided to film a short clip demonstrate that we was able to do thisHere is the link to this clip. Here is the link to our finished preliminary task. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZm03vjA6og&feature=plcp

Our perliminmary task film idea was about a young girl who had become addicted to drugs and was about her having a run in with a drug dealer in her school. We decided that our audience was for people of a similar age to us, of people aged between 15/16 years old. We decided this because we thought that this topic would not be very appropriate for younger veiwers. Our film genre is drama as we filmed a serious topic and was based on a serious topic issue, there was no comdey elements to our film as well as no action, the film was mainly about the drama of a teenage drug addict's life.

 In my group there was 3 of us working on the preliminary task, our roles where split up into different things. My role in the group was to be director. I feel that i could have performed better and made more of the decisions of the shots that where to be used. However i think that because of working with my friends i trusted that there decisions on shots where right and took a more laid back approach to being a director. If i was to be a director again for the main task i think that i should try and take more control within the group.

We were influenced by a number of diffferent tv show that we thought our target audience may also be intrested in, these where this is england as well as skins aswell as the film juno. These shows are also to do with teenage issues such as drug abuse so we was able to get ideas of the issues that are made present. We also felt that these kind of films have a quite a degree of realism which was something that we wanted to come out in our film.

Our group was eager to create a film that was intresting to watch and fun to film however at the same time was also meeting all the requirements of the prelminary task. I think that my group fulfilled the intensions for the task and i was pleased with the outcome. Overall i feel that the that the preliminary task went well as we were able to work well together and took on this task to the best of the ability, however for the main task i feel we will be able to learn from mistakes from this task and produce a even better film.