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:-

In our thriller film, this is where the main character (Charlie) makes a cup of tea. 

In the tv series, Dexter, this is where the main character makes coffee.

We have used these pairs of images as it shows the conventions of a thriller film in both the TV show 'Dexter' and the opening of our thriller film. It shows the conventions as making a cup of tea or coffee is an every day event, therefore as its used in a thriller theme, it shows the conventions. 

During the film, we have used food colouring to make the impression of blood in a sink. 

In Psycho, during the film there is a camera shot of blood going down a bath drain.

During our first filming session, we poured the food coloring into the sink to make the appearance of blood, this shows the conventions of a thriller film 'Phycho' in relation to the opening of our thriller film.  

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

This is a clip taken from Save Private Ryan. 

 We have developed our clip from the previous media clip by using the 'Desaturation' effect to give it a past tense appearance.

Developing the army theme, we used an effect to change the original filming so that it looks like our clip was taken in the past, therefore we have developed the conventions of a thriller film.

This clip was taken from the film 'Children of Men'. The news report was featured in the opening scene of the film. 

We have developed the news report by making our version fit the whole screen so the viewer will only see the news report, this is because we only wanted the viewer to see news report rather than the television that its also filmed on. 

We have compared our film to 'Dexter', which is a TV series. This is because the Dexter is the genre that we hoped to achieve. Therefore, this is why our opening scene of the thriller is compared to Dexter. 

We have challenged the forms and conventions of real media products

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

Evaluation Question 2 on Prezi

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.

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. Th camera is a Canon, in which we used to film the whole of our opening thriller. When we first started using the cameras (during filming the preliminary) we didn't know how to use the cameras, so from then till now, we have gathered a lot more understanding.

This is another image of the Canon camera, taken with a close up shot. 

This is an image of the mac 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 so that the filming was steady. 

This is another image of the tripod we have used. Again, during the filming of our preliminary we were unsure how to use the tripod, but since then we have used the tripods well.

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

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