Evaluation

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

Two Pairs of frames where we have used the forms and conventions of real media products:-

First Pair of frames:-

Here is the title of the existing Thriller film 'Seven'

Here is our title of our film. We have used existing conventions of Thriller films because we have, like existing films used credits so the viewer knows what they are watching.

Second Pair of frames:-

    

This is where, in Psycho there is a plug hole in a bath containing what looks like blood.

This is where we have a scene that has a sink containing what looks like blood. We have strongly used this convention of having a plug hole and having blood flowing into the plug hole as our snapshot is very similar to the snapshot of the film "Psycho".

Two pairs of frames where we have developed the forms and conventions of real media products:-
   

Third Pair of frames:-

This is a real media product (Saving Private Ryan).

This is a snapshot of our groups film intro. We have challenged the forms and conventions of the film "Saving Private Ryan" because we have used the 'Desaturation' effect to give it a past tense effect.

Forth Pair of frames:-
  

This is a news report from the film 'Children of Men'. It has a news report that is featured in the opening scene.

We have developed ours from this by making it fit the whole screen so the viewer will only see the news report, instead of seeing the screen with a background around it. 

We have challenged the forms and conventions of real media products by:-

Fifth Pair of frames:-


This is a snapshot of the film 'Silence of the Lambs'. The location of this part is a gloomy looking prison.

This contrasts greatly to the snapshot of our film where we have our main character in a warm, happy looking house. This is how we have challenged the forms and conventions of existing media products. Because we have used a complete non-thriller location to try and catch the viewers off guard as they do not suspect anything because of the calm, nice looking location.

Sixth Pair of frames:-

Here is an existing media product, the TV thriller series 'Dexter' where 'Dexter' is making a cup of coffee.

  
We have challenged the forms and conventions of existing media products similarly to 'Dexter' by having our main character (who is a killer) do a normal, friendly, calm act of making a cup of tea. We have challenged conventions because our character is not stereotypically a killer.

One of the comparisons we have used have been to 'Dexter' which is a TV series. Despite this, Dexter is of the same genre that we are going for. Therefore our film opening is compared to Dexter.

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

http://prezi.com/z1icuvudgmjp/how-does-you-media-product-represent-particular-social-groups/

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

http://nfgsmedia.wikispaces.com/Hyperion

 

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

• Our main audience is a 38 year old male named Simon. 
• He has no children and has a girlfriend he has been with for 3 months.
• He goes to Sci-Fi conventions and loves the film 'The Matrix' and has seen the trilogy 68 times. 

• He is middle class and lives in a small town near London. 

• He is right wing and votes conservative because they tax richer people less and he is well off. 

• He loves our film because it is set nearby to where he lives. 
• He is quite well off because he stayed single most of the time and he likes to save his money. 
• He doesn't keep himself fit but is quite skinny and tall. 

• He moved out of his parents house when he was 25 years old. 
• He listens to 70's progressive rock because that is the music he grew up with and doesn't understand the music of today. 

• His parents were well off and paid for his university fees. 
• He went to a modest university doing a computer science bachelors degree. 
• He works as a IT technician in an office and has worked there since he graduated from University. 

• His favourite hobby is painting army figurines and his girlfriend doesn't understand why he does it.

• He doesnt buy into Bluray or 3D and feels that they are just a phase  and will be gone soon enough.

• He reads comics instead of books and his favourite comic is 'Army of Two'.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

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

This is an image of the camera we have used to film. I have progressed with using this camera because, at first I did not know how to use the camera very well and had to learn what button did what on the camera.

This is another image of the camera we have used to film.

This is an image of the computer we used, and on it, a picture of our blog.

This is an image of the tripod we used to ensure as to the best of our abilities that the filming is not wobbly.

This is another image of the tripod we have used. I have progressed with using this tripod because, at first, I was not very good at using it. This was shown in the poor filming for the preliminary task.

This is another image of the computer we used to do most of our work on.

This is an image of my computer screen where, on "logic pro" I made the music for our groups Thriller film opening. I have progressed using the logic pro software, because, at first I was not very good at making Thriller music or making any music that would sound convincing for an original Thriller film.

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