Evaluation

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

In our opening thriller right from the start we have tried to create mystery of what is going on. We have done this by jumping straight into the plot giving no background information of what has happened. Straight away we have followed what other Thrillers do at the beginning.

Challenged

This is a image taken from Shutter island in there opening credits. As you can see it looks very mystery and also there are opening credits to this. In our opening Thriller we have tried to challenge by creating a sense of mystery and tension from the beginning. We have also tried to have a shot of something which doesn't make sense to the audience but may as the film goes on. This was an important part of our opening Thriller because we had chosen a successful film to try and copy which made our thriller stand out. The music for Shutter Island and for this opening piece is very similar to what we chose. As the credits go on so does the music which builds up the whole time and climax's just before the end. Shutter island is a physiological Thriller something we wanted to mimic as the audience we had based upon would be something along the same lines.

This is how we have challenged Shutter Island. We have copied from the beginning the tracking bit with a POV shot it worked well there and linked very well with our Thriller. Although it was not in the same situation we felt that we challenged it by changing the scenario so it links more towards our Thriller.  We feel that this tracking shot mimicked very well and that we have it shaking gives it more realism from Shutter island.
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Used

In our opening Thriller we have used many conventions fro other Thrillers to make ours stand out and to cover which most Thrillers have. For instance we have used the protagonist who is not seen at the beginning and also the antagonist who is heard but also not seen. We have linked ours directly with the Dark Knight as it is a Thriller film and the opening 2 minutes we used bits from. We have centered our plot around crime and the missing of the girl which in the dark Knight they do. Also in the first 2 minutes you don't know who the antagonist is so we have left bit open as the same. We have also followed with the same sort of music which builds up as it goes along.

The way crime is shown in our Thriller is through a girl going missing and knowing the Dad has something to do with it although he does show or we do not see him at all. In the Dark Knight we see that the crime is people being killed although only one person kills someone and then someone else kills them showing that there is crime and also there is mystery to who knows about each killing. Also that they keep there antagonist hidden through out the beginning squence is good as it leaves a sense of mystery for the audience who he is and is he there. We can directly link our opening to this through those conventions.

Developed 

As our Thriller is a psychological Thriller we felt that someone being taken and especially a young girl would help back us up that this is a Thriller. Many Psychological Thrillers usually have a twist of someone going missing or a sense of mystery which surrounds someone who is close to the protagonist. We have tried to portray this throughout our opening 2 minutes.

 

In our opening Thriller we have tried to develop the whole someone is distress. We have done this by following the film Taken and what they have done.  In the film Taken we see that someone is taken from the protagonist and in the opening 2 minutes we see that this has happened. We have developed this by showing that there is someone in distress through a series of voice mails raising much tension and suspense for the audience who are watching. 

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

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

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4)How did you attract/ address your audience?

  All the way through the process of making our Thriller we have tried to stick with our audience. generally our audience is meant to be 15-21 as we have hit many points which a teenager, young adult would like to watch. As we have classed our Thriller as a physiological Thriller we noticed that someone under the age of 15 may not understand or enjoy a thriller likes this. Through our opening two minutes we have tried to make it clear what sort of Thriller we have and that it is clear that the older sort of teenager as they will understand it.

 In this piece of work we have always been thinking about different camera angles we could use. As we decide that the camera was going to be POV we could explore many different shots that would go with this. Such as we have many medium angle shots of different props we used so you could see them all and also where they are. Also we used close up shots so that the audience could see up close what sort of shots we were using. towards the end of our Thriller we used a tracking shot of a car this is a shot so it looked like someone was following the car and that also we could see the car constantly where it was going.


Mise-en-scene is a way we attracted the audience by using different props to help the audience understand what is going on. Such as we used a child's glove something that was made clear as it had a pattern on it and also that it looked like a young girl would have this.  This was significant because it helped with the whole Thriller element as you don't know who and what is going on.

Editing was a key part of the Thriller and we made very clear the voice calls over the top and also the effect which made the Phone stand out more to hit our audience age. With all the footage we got we had to edit it about and tun it into a thriller by adding special effects. Editing was a clear point in our Thriller as we edited music over the top to create tension and suspense all the way through.

In the opening 30 seconds we immediately wanted to establish our character and to let the audience know who the characters are. We did this with voice mails from the start showing that there is a mum and that this person must be young if she is being picked up from school and then we have the boyfriend which shows she must not be to young if she has a boyfriend. Also that we find a girls bag and glove shows that there is a girl been taken and that this makes it suspense on what is happening.

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

Apple Mac

Through out the year Apple has been a piece of technology I have used the most. This is because Apple is very good for editing and also i spend a lot of my time in the classroom where the apple computers are. Apple is a type of technology which i have not used before and I have learnt how to use although it does take a long time. I feel i have benefited from using Apple as i learnt a new skill which i can use later on and also with A2.

Blogger

Blogger is the site I have been doing all my posts on and all the work I have done this year. As i have never used any sort of blogger before this, Blogger was a new sort of site i was using. I found Blogger not to hard to use and soon got the hang of adding backgrounds and different links. Blogger was a simple program to use and I soon got the hang of it making many posts and linking videos or different pictures to it.

Final Cut

Final cut was what i did all my editing on and also what I used for our preliminary task. I found Final cut first of all hard to use but soon got the hang of it using many affects and also learning how to cut and edit all of our video. I found this very fun and also learnt a lot about editing which would help me for next year.

Youtube

Youtube is what we posted our videos on and tagged over which was very good and helpful as we can get responses from many people around the world who are watching it This is a part of the course which i found very useful as we can see how popular it is and the view count showed this. We did a lot of our research on Youtube as we could find most opening credits there and also other AS Media videos to do so.

                                   Photoshop

As we made out Ident in Photoshop we found that it was very useful program to use. I had used Photoshop before so i benefited making a ident although it did take a few attempts we did get to the final piece. Photoshop was used for making first version of credits as we found it very useful with many different affects we could use.

Prezzi

Prezzi was what i used in my evaluation in which it was one topic with many other topics around it. I found prezzi very useful although it was a piece of application i had not used before. Prezzi was very helpful and significance in my coursework as i could link my work easily and do it on one slide making my work much quicker to do. Prezzi was quality to use in my evaluation as I had a question with many different topics coming off which was very easy to understand and to produce.

                                     Camera

The camera was a vital piece of equipment we used. The camera we used was a Canon LEGRIA HF R106 this was a HD camera and small so we could use it for hand held. The camera was a piece of equipment used to do the filming as it was the actor and it was from his point of view. The camera was a piece of equipment we all used to film as it was easy and we could use our ideas and watch them back. I felt very confident as it was a pretty simple piece of equipment to use.

Tripod

The tripod was a quality piece of equipment to use so we could get a still shot of the phone. We found it useful and that we could adjust a height with it. The tripod was a piece of equipment which was given to use and we thought that using it would be significance as we don't have a shaky sort of image making it more clear.

Looking back at your preliminary task/ 1st version. What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

 In the preliminary take I feel I have learnt a lot, it helped me learn a little more about the equipment we were using as I had no previous experience before. It also helped a lot in terms of making the final piece, as we started to get an idea of what we wanted to include. Also it helped with the research as it allowed us to work out what we can and cant do with the equipment we had. The preliminary helped me learn what camera shots were great to use in a thriller as well as we used a variety in the preliminary task.






This is our first version we made of our Thriller opening. this was a rubbish opening because we just had a girl walking around for 2 minutes not giving any clue to the audience what is going on. We decided to scarp this idea as it wasn't a Thriller and that no one knew what was happening as the opening went on. We used this for improvements as our second and final;l version benefited from some of the effects and the music we used went well with this.