In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
We included a few forms and conventions of thrillers. The first is the music. Thrillers are known to use music that follows the story and adds to the suspense and drama of it. I think we used our music effectively and it kept the pace moving and made sure that eah shot didnt linger too long as that would slow down the story and lose the audiences interest. We also used a typical convention of not revealing too much, by using shots and editing to suggest that there was something in the house with the lead character we didnt need to reveal too much about it. this adds to the suspense and mystery of the film. Also by revealing the identities of the characters slowly and seperately we didnt throw the audience straight into the action.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I would imagine that an institution like film4 would distribute our film as it is a british based channel on the television that distributes both to home and cinema audiences, this would allow the film to be viewed by a larger majority of people. Film4 is a popular institution after being responsible for 'Slumdog millionaire' and 'The lovely bones' and more, this would make our film seem more attractive to audiences and would once more boost the viewing possibilities
Who would be the audiences for your media product?
The film would most likely be placed in the catagory of a '15' age rating as there would be language and scenes unsuitable for younger audiences further into the film. The introduction that we produced wouldn't be this rating but we had to think about this film as a complete piece as if it was actually going to be created. We would aim mainly at the 15-30 year old audience although we wouldnt limit it to those and the film would probably still appeal to the older ages. The film would most likely appeal to the male audience though i will not generalise because the action sort of thrillers also appeal to female viewers.
How did you attract/address your audience?
We attracted our audience with the flashbacks in the hope that audiences would want to know what would be revealed next. We made sure that the flashbacks didnt reveal too much as once again we were thinking about the film as a complete piece, so that the short film wasnt the end. So this also adds to our hopes that the audience would be enticed by the unknown elelments of filming such as the shots from high above.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
We included a few forms and conventions of thrillers. The first is the music. Thrillers are known to use music that follows the story and adds to the suspense and drama of it. I think we used our music effectively and it kept the pace moving and made sure that eah shot didnt linger too long as that would slow down the story and lose the audiences interest. We also used a typical convention of not revealing too much, by using shots and editing to suggest that there was something in the house with the lead character we didnt need to reveal too much about it. this adds to the suspense and mystery of the film. Also by revealing the identities of the characters slowly and seperately we didnt throw the audience straight into the action.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I would imagine that an institution like film4 would distribute our film as it is a british based channel on the television that distributes both to home and cinema audiences, this would allow the film to be viewed by a larger majority of people. Film4 is a popular institution after being responsible for 'Slumdog millionaire' and 'The lovely bones' and more, this would make our film seem more attractive to audiences and would once more boost the viewing possibilities
Who would be the audiences for your media product?
The film would most likely be placed in the catagory of a '15' age rating as there would be language and scenes unsuitable for younger audiences further into the film. The introduction that we produced wouldn't be this rating but we had to think about this film as a complete piece as if it was actually going to be created. We would aim mainly at the 15-30 year old audience although we wouldnt limit it to those and the film would probably still appeal to the older ages. The film would most likely appeal to the male audience though i will not generalise because the action sort of thrillers also appeal to female viewers.
How did you attract/address your audience?
We attracted our audience with the flashbacks in the hope that audiences would want to know what would be revealed next. We made sure that the flashbacks didnt reveal too much as once again we were thinking about the film as a complete piece, so that the short film wasnt the end. So this also adds to our hopes that the audience would be enticed by the unknown elelments of filming such as the shots from high above.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have learnt about the difficulties and subsequent possibilities that come with changing the ideas from a concept in your mind to a solid piece of work. I learnt that each idea comes with its limitations mainly with camera angles and lighting, for example when we were filming we aimed to have a shot from one of the top corners of the building, but we found that the lighting wouldnt be appropriate and would make the filming look unprofessional. I have also learnt how to use the camera angles and positions to my advantage and have discovered what lighting and shots make a film look more effective. Before making this film i didnt have the first idea of how to edit a piece using any of the editing software but by the end i had learnt how each effect works and how to edit the piece together effectively. I also learnt how to import music from itunes, export the film onto disc and then how to upload to an external site like youtube.
looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full production?
The most basic of things i have learnt it not to make blatent continuity errors. for example, in our continuity piece the storyboards and a drinks bottle appreared in a couple of shots because we forgot to to remove them. This was an amateur mistake that i made sure didnt happen in our final piece, i checked each shot for possible errors and if i noticed anything, we refilmed the shot. I have also gained a greater knowledge of the effectiveness of different camera angles and editing features such as cuts and fades. I believe that the final piece included much better transitions and more complicated edits. Another thing that changed between the two films was the way that the characters were show. In our preliminary task there were a lot of shots taken from the back of the characters, something i now realise wasnt effective enough as the audience doesnt have any idea of emotions or thoughts going on with the character. In our final piece we had a majority of reaction shots showing the front of sides of people faces. we couple of shots from behind when the characters were seemily being chased away by something but we thought this would look better if the camera was behind the character as it would show a better idea of them being chased.
looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full production?
The most basic of things i have learnt it not to make blatent continuity errors. for example, in our continuity piece the storyboards and a drinks bottle appreared in a couple of shots because we forgot to to remove them. This was an amateur mistake that i made sure didnt happen in our final piece, i checked each shot for possible errors and if i noticed anything, we refilmed the shot. I have also gained a greater knowledge of the effectiveness of different camera angles and editing features such as cuts and fades. I believe that the final piece included much better transitions and more complicated edits. Another thing that changed between the two films was the way that the characters were show. In our preliminary task there were a lot of shots taken from the back of the characters, something i now realise wasnt effective enough as the audience doesnt have any idea of emotions or thoughts going on with the character. In our final piece we had a majority of reaction shots showing the front of sides of people faces. we couple of shots from behind when the characters were seemily being chased away by something but we thought this would look better if the camera was behind the character as it would show a better idea of them being chased.
