In what ways does your media product use or challenge forms of real media aspects? -
Such as our effects that we have used during editing, we believe that we have a successful film beginning in terms of our effects and camera shots. The camera shots that we have used are both varied and appropriate. We have maximized our lighting as we have filmed outside during the day in spring, this will hopefully reflect the mood in the opening of the film. the genre of our film is a thriller and our opening sequence is about a 17 year old teenager (Dale Brookes) revising for his upcoming exams on the side of a cannel. Suddenly the boy gets a text of his mother to get home quickly and this is were the tension builds up and he is rushing home. As he is walking he receives another text which then says "HURRY UP!!". At this point he is running home with the fear of whats happened. As he comes to his house he suddenly realises that the front door is opened. He slowly pushes the door open the door and he suddenly see the something horrific which makes his eyes wide open and also makes him drop his folder. In our sequence you do not see who the boy see's however this is what makes the film look great and also draws the audience in.
Who would be the audience for your media product? -
Our audience would be the likes of teenagers and young adults and fans of independent and student films. Our film is a psychological thriller and our media group enjoy the genre, as do other students in our college that we have asked, so we would target those that are most likely to enjoy the film. We have decided that is our target audience because we wanted to create a film that we would like to watch, and thought that our audience should be the people that are like the members of our group. We feel fans of independent/student films would be interested in a film like ours due to the minimal budget we used and by not really spending any money we have created a successful opening sequence to our production. Also, with the re-opening/ rebranding of the British film industry (Working Title and Ealing Studio's) our film can also target fans of them. With the independent movie business now thriving and movie festival around the world taking an interest in independent films most notably the Cannes movie festival/awards were many independent films are screened to the world.
How did you attract/ address your audience? -
We addressed our audience by surveying several members of staff
and several students on whether they enjoyed our film concept. Our results conclude that most members of staff do not like many psychological thrillers that they have seen in general, and a significant number of students did enjoy most psychological thrillers that they have seen, so that is how we established our target audience. We used some psychological thrillers such as Along came a Spider (2001) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdoursSfYLw to help us create an atmosphere in which we could entice an audience to watch our film. With teenagers/young adults being an important part of our target audience we used technology throughout with an i-pod and mobile phone being seen most of the time during our film . These are some of the main props of our production, this technology has been strongly linked with the younger generation in recent years. Fallen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP-ey0cVs0M is another film we have strongly likened our production like Along came a Spider and is produced in the same way with it also being a psychological thriller although both of these films have a huge budget esipically in compared to a film like ours.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
We have learnt how to film a scene, compose a scene for example make sure the lighting is appropriate and make sure we do not break any rules such as the 180 degree rule, and the rule of continuity. Lighting is a key area of any film because you need the lighting to represent the mood you wish to portray to your audience. as our film started brightly but got the atmosphere progressively darker this is also in correlation to the film as the intensity of the scene reaches its peak. We also had to obey the 180 degree rule and got over this problem several times by using different camera shots to work around it. We also had to obey the rule of contunity and we broke this a few times but tried our best to keep to the rule as much as we could.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
COSTUME
Our character is presented in casual clothing, accurate for his generation. The characters clothing such as the jeans, jacket and trainers, all represent a youthful social background
PROPS
Our antagonist represents a teenage social group. Props such as his iPod, support the idea that the character is from a teenage social group, as teenagers are often associated with Mp3 players and iPods. Another prop which suggests a teenage social group is the characters folder at the beginning of the clip; this folder convinces the audience that the character is a student. The mobile phone also helps the audience to understand the social background that the character is from because the mobile phone is another association that the public have with teenagers in general.
LOCATION
This location is a working class area, which also supports the social group of our character, because students can usually be associated with poorer backgrounds or associated with living in working class estates, particularly when at university or in college.
There is an example of how we tried to capture our target social group for our project at the top of the post. This is a shot from the film series “Jeepers Creepers” in which there is a cast of college aged Americans. We had to update the costume and props to a more present fashion, and also try to address a more British attire.
Such as our effects that we have used during editing, we believe that we have a successful film beginning in terms of our effects and camera shots. The camera shots that we have used are both varied and appropriate. We have maximized our lighting as we have filmed outside during the day in spring, this will hopefully reflect the mood in the opening of the film. the genre of our film is a thriller and our opening sequence is about a 17 year old teenager (Dale Brookes) revising for his upcoming exams on the side of a cannel. Suddenly the boy gets a text of his mother to get home quickly and this is were the tension builds up and he is rushing home. As he is walking he receives another text which then says "HURRY UP!!". At this point he is running home with the fear of whats happened. As he comes to his house he suddenly realises that the front door is opened. He slowly pushes the door open the door and he suddenly see the something horrific which makes his eyes wide open and also makes him drop his folder. In our sequence you do not see who the boy see's however this is what makes the film look great and also draws the audience in.
Who would be the audience for your media product? -
Our audience would be the likes of teenagers and young adults and fans of independent and student films. Our film is a psychological thriller and our media group enjoy the genre, as do other students in our college that we have asked, so we would target those that are most likely to enjoy the film. We have decided that is our target audience because we wanted to create a film that we would like to watch, and thought that our audience should be the people that are like the members of our group. We feel fans of independent/student films would be interested in a film like ours due to the minimal budget we used and by not really spending any money we have created a successful opening sequence to our production. Also, with the re-opening/ rebranding of the British film industry (Working Title and Ealing Studio's) our film can also target fans of them. With the independent movie business now thriving and movie festival around the world taking an interest in independent films most notably the Cannes movie festival/awards were many independent films are screened to the world.
How did you attract/ address your audience? -
We addressed our audience by surveying several members of staff
and several students on whether they enjoyed our film concept. Our results conclude that most members of staff do not like many psychological thrillers that they have seen in general, and a significant number of students did enjoy most psychological thrillers that they have seen, so that is how we established our target audience. We used some psychological thrillers such as Along came a Spider (2001) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdoursSfYLw to help us create an atmosphere in which we could entice an audience to watch our film. With teenagers/young adults being an important part of our target audience we used technology throughout with an i-pod and mobile phone being seen most of the time during our film . These are some of the main props of our production, this technology has been strongly linked with the younger generation in recent years. Fallen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP-ey0cVs0M is another film we have strongly likened our production like Along came a Spider and is produced in the same way with it also being a psychological thriller although both of these films have a huge budget esipically in compared to a film like ours.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
We have learnt how to film a scene, compose a scene for example make sure the lighting is appropriate and make sure we do not break any rules such as the 180 degree rule, and the rule of continuity. Lighting is a key area of any film because you need the lighting to represent the mood you wish to portray to your audience. as our film started brightly but got the atmosphere progressively darker this is also in correlation to the film as the intensity of the scene reaches its peak. We also had to obey the 180 degree rule and got over this problem several times by using different camera shots to work around it. We also had to obey the rule of contunity and we broke this a few times but tried our best to keep to the rule as much as we could.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
COSTUME
Our character is presented in casual clothing, accurate for his generation. The characters clothing such as the jeans, jacket and trainers, all represent a youthful social background
PROPS
Our antagonist represents a teenage social group. Props such as his iPod, support the idea that the character is from a teenage social group, as teenagers are often associated with Mp3 players and iPods. Another prop which suggests a teenage social group is the characters folder at the beginning of the clip; this folder convinces the audience that the character is a student. The mobile phone also helps the audience to understand the social background that the character is from because the mobile phone is another association that the public have with teenagers in general.
LOCATION
This location is a working class area, which also supports the social group of our character, because students can usually be associated with poorer backgrounds or associated with living in working class estates, particularly when at university or in college.
There is an example of how we tried to capture our target social group for our project at the top of the post. This is a shot from the film series “Jeepers Creepers” in which there is a cast of college aged Americans. We had to update the costume and props to a more present fashion, and also try to address a more British attire.
What kind of media institution would distribute your media product and why?
We feel if our film was going to be distributed it would on a nationwide release with independent British film companies interested like Ealing Studios. For cinema's it would be released in we would expect it to be possible shown in the Cornerhouse in Manchester which is famous for showing its independent/foreign films. Production companies like Coffee Films etc we feel would be very interested in a film like ours because it represents the type of film they would be interested in. Then you have movie festivals that would also be interested in screening films like ours i.e Cannes which was mentioned above. 
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