Evaluation

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We used many different camera shots which is common in thrillers:

• Birds Eye View- We decided to use this insignificant shot on the credits to make the audience to support the idea that the movie is about a individuals life from when she was a child to an adult. We interpreted crayons, and all different types of crayons.

• Low Angle- We used a low angle shot, to try and make the dolls seem powerful, and bigger than they are and doesn't give much detail of the surroundings making it concentrate on whats happening.
 
• Close ups- We used this to concentrate mainly on the doll and not on backgrounds, showing expression on the face even though we no its only a doll.

• Canted Angle- This is popular in thrillers as it is seeing what the character sees, we used a hand held camera for this.

Partial Vision:

We decided to use partial vision, by making it unclear what Cesca is doing making the audience ask questions. It may of made the audience think there was a unknown character watching her which they hadn't been introduced too. This could also of made a stalker impression, as it was clear it was in her house and bedroom.

Heroic Romance:

Many thrillers follow this convention as it is easy for the audience to relate too. The narrative of our film follows this as our character tries to overcome any issues later on in the film proving she is an ordinary person, yet it becomes uncapable for her and is thrown into extraordinary circumstances.

We made spider diagrams of our ideas for the thriller:

Q2. How does your media product represent social groups?

Our film could be compared to home alone, as we use children to be the vulnerable however end up in the situtaion where there causing trouble. Our thriller makes people see chrildren been seen as naughty, cheeky, scary, unpredictable rather than cute and innocent.

Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

If our film was to be able to be instituted we would hope that Film4 would distribute it as they well advertise any well known films, or ones that haven't been able to hit the big screen for example :

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 Which if we had the chance to be able to film i don't think we would be able to fund it sufficiently to make it get there however film4 focus on distributing films by unknown film makers if they are known to succeed. I would prefer it to be on film 4, rather than the cinema as unless it was advertised well it may not get many views as it is aimed for people aged 15 and over. As we dont think it would appeal to an older audience. Also if it was distributed on film4 it could be played more than once, with advertisements about the film being shown throughout the week. This would stop any illegal copies being made, and illegal downloads as it wouldnt be ont he internet. This way people of all ages have the option whether they want to watch it and then have the option on whether they would like to buy the film from perhaps blockbuster. I also prefer the idea of our film being on television instead of the cinema as i prefer having the thrill that the audience enjoyed the thriller than making money out of it.


http://www.film4.com/features/article/online-movie-distribution


They have only just recently distributed a new film which has made it to the big screen called '127 hours.' Our film maybe an appeal to film4 as they like to use British ideas and actors which we would prefer to use. Also our film is unusual as it doesnt follow all codes and conventions of usual thrillers making it standout from competition.


Q4. Who would be the target audience for your media product?

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• I belive that our thriller would appeal to both females and males
• I also think that it would relate more to teenagers than young adults Our thriller should no be viewed by young peope as we use a young girl for the opening of our thriller making it easy for a child to relate too.
• However even though we have aimed our film at teenagers, it doesnt stop those that are older and wanting to watch it.

Q5. How did you attract/adress your audience?

• We decided to make 30 questionnaires and hand them out around college as this is the target audience we propose to watch our film.
• However we did try and include teahcers as well as students to make it not seem biased.
•  We did this to find out what aspects of a thriller to include in our media product in order to attract this target audience.
• On top of this we analysed other thriller oppening to get the idea of what codes and conventions would be suited in the oppening of our thriller.

Questionnaire:

• Leading on from this we collated the data by making a tale chart
• Then we proccessed them on microsoft excel turning them into bar charts and put them on our blog
  
  

Q6. What have you learned about technologies from the proccess of constructing this product?

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