Download - Media
- 1. Media
Evaluation
Molly Niklas
2. How does your media product represent particular social
groups
3. In our Thriller we only had one character representation. We did
this because we felt that using one female would create that
vulnerability that you often see in Thrillers.
Our character was a female, she was wearing all black. She had a
very feminine look about her which we intentionally wanted to
highlight because this createsinnocence and more of an innocent
character.
When we analysed other Thriller films, we noticed that in the
opening sequence the silence of the lambs, their is a female
character alone in the forest. This gave us inspiration to use a
female character in the opening of ours because we wanted to show
innocence and the idea that something was going to happen.
The fact that our character was alone represented that females seem
to be a lot more prone to being a victim. Even though the character
wasn't drawing any attention to herself, the idea of her being
alone creates a tense atmosphere for the audience.
4. In what ways does your real media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
5. Inspiration
OPENING TO SEVEN
Here you can see that from inspiration from the Thriller opening
Seven, we have created our own similar notice board and analysis of
a murder scene. We did this because we felt that it was very
effective in seven and we wanted to create something similar that
we knew would engage our chosen target audience.
OUR THRILLER FILM!
6. 4) WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE
FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT?
7. How do you feel when you watch a Thriller at the cinema?
What do you look for in a Thriller opening?
At the beginning of our Thriller we have flashing images of a
killer plotting a murder, how and why is this effective of your age
group?
8. When we researched different Thriller films, the majority came
under the certificate rating of 15. The conventions we used were
similar to some of those used in the other Thrillers so we felt
that havingit at certificate 15 was the best thing to do and most
suitable.
Our target audience was 15+. We chose this target group because we
felt that at this age you would properly understand the topic we
wanted to convey. When we researched the classification, there were
certain aspects we wanted to include that wouldn't be suitable for
under this age group.
I think that our Thriller will appeal to other ages outside our
target audience. I think this because the scene is quite confusing
and the aspects used would confuse an older target audience
9. How did you attract/address your audience?
10. Relate to some real life situations that they have been
involved with
Nervous and anxious to know whats going to happen
Questioning whats going on and having to wait for the answer
HOW WE WANTED OUR AUDIENCE TO FEEL...
Un a where of whats going to happen next...
Make our target audience know the real life situations.
Create a tense atmosphere for the audience
Mysterious atmosphere
The idea of having to work out whats happening
11. The audience research was a very important part of the
preparation process into making our final piece a success. The rest
of the questionnaire results are on my blog with the conclusions as
to how the answered questions will help us.
We asked this question in our audience research because we wanted
to know whether we should reveal some sort of murder at the
beginning of our Thriller...
As you can see from these results, we knew that having a opening
that didn't give away much of the story line would attract the
audience we wanted it to.
12. What type of media institution
might distribute your
media product and why?
13. Mainstream films can best be defined as commercial films that
have a wide release and play in first run theatres (A movie theatre
that runs primarily mainstream film fare from the major film
companies and distributors, during the initial release period of
each film). Being sold at popular stores, or more typically, at
general stores can also be an indicator
A possible film distribution is
calledhttp://www.launchingfilms.com/
They have covered a lot of popular films that are now in all the
cinemas around the country. This particular film company have
distributed films such as The Fighter , Little bit of heaven. I
feel that this would be a good company to distribute our film
because the films that have been previously distributed are of the
same target group as ours.
Having our film digitally distributed enables a wider target
audience and also would be a lot cheaper than film cinema. The
digital film also has a better quality and less likely to get
broken or damaged.
Our final Thriller obviously isnt as good a quality as a
professional film because the technology is a lot more advanced and
they are professionals who are paid to do what they do.However, our
film included some qualities that you would find in Thriller
openings for example it had background music to,camera angles, and
the effects we used weren't as good as professional but they were
in keeping with the project criteria.
14. What have you
learnt about technologies
from the process of
constructing this product?
15. Handling of the software and equipment...
The shots we had already planned were mainly the shots we used when
we came to making our final piece, however, there was one shot that
we did use in the final piece because we felt that it looked good
when we came to piece our whole film together...
The days we were filming, we did have a few problem. Because our
mise-enscene is based at a train station, it was very difficult to
know when the trains were going to arrive in order to have the
cameras ready.
The noise of the trains did interfere with the rest of the sounds,
we have background music to our Thriller so it did take us a while
to make sure the trains didn't over power the background
music.
16. I personally found Premier Pro a very hard editing programme to
use. I thought there were too many confusing tabs and I didn't
understand how to capture my footage at first.However, once youhad
played about with it and had a few lessons practice, I found it a
lot easier and manageable to use.
We used various different effects to create our Thriller. We didnt
want titles running through ofthe producers names because we felt
this would take a lot of the mysterious effect away from what we
wanted to create.However, instead, we just had a plain black
background with the name of the Thriller wrote across it...
17. We did add background music to our Thriller because we felt
that this created suspense and tension because the music does
gradually build up and create an atmosphere to the audience that
something bad is going to happen. I thought this music we found was
really effective and when we made our questionnaires, our target
audience found the sound very effective.
We did add special effects into our Thriller when we came to edit
it. We wanted to create the idea that the girl in our Thriller was
being followed or acting very secretive. We put an effect on her
walking, this effect was called Ghosting and it made the camera go
fuzzy as if something was following her.
18. Lookingback