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1. Evaluation Commitment
Stephanie Harding.
2. In what was does your media product use,developor challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
I believe that our opening developed forms and conventions of real
media products rather than challenge them. We decided that we would
rather have an opening which kept to conventions in previous
products rather than challenging the form and ending up with a poor
final product. We did decide to do a thriller horror hybrid as we
decided that we wanted to use blood and have one of the characters
already dead within the first few seconds of the opening and this
therefore fell more under the horror genre due to the gore.
We incorporate the generic conventions for both the thriller and
horror conventions. The opening scene with the blood on the hand is
used to create the idea of a horror as the hand is
appearedseparatefrom the body with blood on it.
The idea of a thriller is used as the audience suspects the killer
as he has his face hidden throughout the scene and this hiding of
the face is carried on throughout. I don't believe that we were
influenced by any one film in particular and therefore I think that
our opening is simply pieced together by taking ideas from many
different thrillers and horrors.
Hand covered in blood to meet the codes and conventions of horror
genre.
Face hidden in order to keep a sense of mystery with the
thriller.
3. How does you media product represent particular social
groups?
In our media presentation we have a male who is meant to be middle
aged. We represent the male and his age through the use of his
clothing; a suit. We decided that having the male in a suit would
help represent that he is older as this is typical of an older
working man. We also have a female within our media product,
however, it is not easy to understand her social class by simply
looking at the character as we only focus onseparate parts of her
body.We therefore include shots of toys in order to cannot her age
to the audience.
Gender is represented in astereotypical way with the male as the
dominate character as he is the murderer. By having the male as the
strong dominate character this fits with the usual conventions of a
thriller when the male is seen as the main character and often the
killer. We decided to not challenge these conventions as we felt
that they were important to keep at the time of deciding on
character, however, looking back I think that it may have been good
is we did use a female character to challenge conventions.
Shot of the shirt which we used in order to represent the
characters age.
Shot of toys to convey age of girl
4. What kind of media institution might distribute your media
product and why?
I believe that this is something which would be able to be produced
by a major Hollywood studio. I think that our media product leaves
on an opening and therefore can be expanded in order to be a
Hollywood film. I don't believe that our product is similar to any
other film in particular however, I do believe that the type of
film would be able to be seen in cinemas as it appeals to a wider
audience due to the fact it is a hybrid focusing both on elements
from a thriller and a horror.
The film has potential to be an Arthouse film as the film can be
directed to be for more of an niche audience if the director was to
take the film down more of the horror root and make the film
develop in a way which would appeal to a specific target audience.
I believe that the opening allows for the story to be diverse and
which offersopportunitiesto be expanded. I believe this as Arthouse
films are usually directed towards a small audience and therefore
focus on specific aspectsof the film in order for it to appeal to
their target audience.
20th century fox also filmed Die Hard, which is of the thriller
genre and therefore I think they would be the kind of company which
would considerproducing a thriller horror movie.
5. Who would be the audience for your media product?
The target audience for our film is males in particular. This due
to the fact thatstatisticallyfrom our own research and fromresearch
we found on the internet that it ispredominantlymales who enjoy
thriller and horror genres more than females. The age range for our
film would be above 18 as this is what we chose when doing our
research from the BBFC website. I believe that if our media product
was developed further into a real film it would stay at this
rating.
(look below for audience feedback)
The male character who is dominate is more appealing to males
watching as it enhances astereotypeof males in control. Women would
perhaps be more threatened and scared by the narrative.A film which
issimilaris theDie Hardfilms. It begins with the opening scene with
credits over and this is what we were trying to achieve over all.
These films are also aimed at male audiences in particular and use
a dominate male character throughout.
We used the same idea of titles on our shots as used in the Die
Hard films.
6. How did you address your audience?
Due to the fact that our media product was aimed at
apredominatelymale market we incorporated different camera angles
in order to appeal to our target audience. For example during the
opening of our film the camera is used to pan along the floor
simply following the male footsteps, this would be
morefrighteningfor a female watching as the dominate
malecharacteris obviously much taller than we are allowing the
audience to see and we are made to look at his feet, this use of a
low angle allows the main character to appear dominate.
Another point in our film which would perhaps terrify a female
audience is when we use the camera to move around the head of the
dead girl, this would be more frightening as it also shows the
maledominancein the film andtypically a female would feel much more
uncomfortable watching this scene.The use of different shots such
as over theshoulder shots allows the audience to feel that they are
more a part of it. This would probably appeal more to a male
audience whereas a female audience would perhaps be more nervous by
this thought of the maledominanceand what a male character is
thinking and doing.This helps create tension within our opening as
the different camera angles and shots change what you are
witnessing the characters from different angles and therefore able
to make different judgments of the characters.
Panning of the feet.
Head separate from body.
7. What have you learnt about technologies from
theprocessofconstructingyour product?
From our experience with camera equipment we found we didn't like
the quality of the camera we had used as we watched back the
footage. We also realized that we were unable to work the tripod
correctly throughout the entire filming as when looking back a lot
of the original shots we had taken were very wonky. We decided that
we would re-shoot with anothercamera which was better quality.We
also decided that we would use a tripod that we knew better. We
learnt that some camera equipment is a lot easier and the range of
things which can be done on one camera can not always be done so
smoothly on another for example the zoom on both of the cameras was
completely different and we muchpreferredthe second one. Any issues
we faced with the equipment was easily resolved by the second
shooting.
Editing waspredominatelymy job and I spent a long time on the mac
learning premierpro. I found it fine as we had used it when doing
outpreliminarytask and I had a basic understanding already. Once we
began to edit I realized that the editing could be much harder than
I thought but I learnt a lot. I found different effects such as
fades and this helped with the general mise-en-scene of our opening
as it allowed us to move from one scene to another scene, this
helped as it created suspense as you often were left to wonder were
the character was going. I learnt a lot about editing footage
together from different angles to allow the audience to see that
the character is travelling rather than
panningcontinuouslythroughout which is what we did in our rough
cut.
8. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel you
have learnt in the progression from it to your final product?
We started with research on the genre, from this research we were
able todevelopan understand on genre. We also did genre of hybrids
and sub-genres, this helped us chose our hybrid film and therefore
made the process when planning easier as we knew what was expected
of our film due to the codes and conventions.We quickly learnt what
was tooclich of a thriller-horror and we were able to plan the
opening. Once planning different ideas we started on the story
board and then the animatic, these stages proved difficult,
however, they had a significant impact on how smoothly the filming
went as they gave us an idea of what it was we were shooting as we
knew what we were trying to accomplish. Our planning and research
could be improved but when producing our media product it was a lot
better than our preliminary task, due to the time spent planning
whereas we had a very tight dead line with the task and it was no
where near as good in comparison as we still had a lot to
learn.
Watching our preliminary task you are able to see a clear
improvement within the speed of the editing and also theprecisionof
filming. We wouldn't of got to this point with our final product
without the preliminary task and our re-shoots as this was how we
were able to improve by seeing our mistakes. I feel more confident
with the camera, tripod and the mac now and I feel a lot more
confident that I would be able to work all three things by
myself.
I believe that we were successful in creating an opening for a
thriller despite the difficulties we faced, we over came them and I
am pleased with our final product as I think that it does every
thing that we wanted it to and addresses the codes and conventions
as well as its audience well due to the shots, angles and editing
of the product.
We gained knowledge on how we should and shouldnt shoot.