Evaluation Question 7

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

I answered this question using another Prezi



Here are the images that i spoke about on the last page of the Prezi:

Here is the preliminary editing. The only reason why all the footage is red is because i was not able to access the computer i edited on so i accessed the file from another computer. We can still see how it was edited and what is included but it will not play. As you can see it is very simple due to there being only a few transitions and one piece of text

Here is the thriller editing. As you can see the thriller looks more complicated than the preliminary task. We have used a lot more transitions, sound, text, audio transitions and we even reversed some footage so it looked like the character was walking backwards instead of forward.

Evaluation Question 6

What have you learned about technologies from the process of construction this product?

To answer this question, I created a Prezi that can be watched below as I embedded it into my blog. Please allow some time for it to load up.

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

I have answered this question with a spicy node. Below you can see a quick over view on how we keep our audience watching and how we keep their attention. To function the spicy node all you have to do is just click on the two branches to the left and right to view what has been said about them. If the texts goes off screen you can either click to go on full screen or just drag the mind map around to adjust the view.



So the elaborate on what has been said, an audience need to be interesting in what is happening otherwise they wont like the thriller and it wont be successful. Once an audience is interested that's when they need to be hooked so thy will carry on watching.

Below you can see what the majority of our audience are under the age of 18. As you can see from my spicy node, we attracted our audience (16-24) with character identification, the use of certain situations and the dialogue. All of this is based around youth theme so this is how we attracted our audience

here are some screenshots of how we put this research into action. You can see that the girls are talking about make up and use some lipstick, we also left the opening on a cliffhanger to keep them interested and so they carry on watching.

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media production?

Our presumed audience would be 16-24 middle/working class. This is because this is roughly our age group and would mostly understand the content of the thriller. However, just to make sure I posted a survey on "Survey Monkey" to get true feedback and here are the results.

The majority of respondents are under the age of 18 and just over (18-24). Our target audience make up for than 3/4 of this survey so later results may reflect what this age group may prefer.

The most popular film genre is comedy followed by horror. The reasoning behind this result is that all age groups enjoy comedy's and that is why its most popular. Horror is the second most popular as younger people enjoy horror films much more, therefore the 3/4 of young people most likely picked horror and comedy (and a few others) whereas those older than 24 opted for comedy and some of the others

The most popular conventions where suspense and crime. This is great as these are the two main conventions in our thriller, proving that those who took the questionnaire will watch our thriller and could enjoy it. Youth themes is most likely least popular as those other 18 may not enjoy these themes and those who are under 18 may not like these themes as they are represented negatively.

As you can see, our true audience is those who are under 18 (they are around 16/17) and we know this as the majority who answered the survey were under 16 and we can clearly see that all the conventions in the last chart are popular. Furthermore Horror was the second favored film and thriller was third; our film is a thriller/horror so these results also confirm who would watch our film. You may be thinking that the older people may have selected horror and thriller along with the conventions, but they did not (with some exception) as I watched as the results came in. When a under 16 or 18-24 submitted a survey, the score for horror thriller and the conventions went up. Therefore I can conclude from this survey that the majority audience will be 16-24. We also know this will be our audience due to feedback from asking people and from those who watch the thriller (from screening).

After this survey I went out to ask people (those who were the majority in the survey) why would they watch our thriller. Here is a collage of works that sums up what they said...

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Evaluation Question 3

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

Here you can see a mind map of all the options we have to distribute our media product along with the advantages and disadvantages. However we are not likely to use all of these methods. For instance, we are an independent and small film so we are more likely to use the microwave system with UK production companies. The reason we wouldn't use USA production companies is highlighted red under the USA branch. So all the options we would not use are those that either have too many disadvantages, those that would cost money and those that would distribute the thriller for free.
I have spoken about YouTube red, for those who do not know what this is, it is an addition to YouTube where they show videos which you have to pay for to watch. This payment is done as a monthly subscription

Now i need to compare our distribution to a real films distribution. I am choosing to compare with "Shifty"

Similarities - Both our film and Shifty both will use the microwave system. This is because this will provide support and low budgets. Shifty also premiered at the London film festival which got multiple UK production companies interested in distributing the film. We also plan to get UK production companies to help so our film can be in cinema. Furthermore, Shifty distributed their film on DVD/Blue-ray's and TV. We also plan to utilise these.

Differences - Shifty has distributed their film on the internet (youtube) and also in other con tries like Australia. This does not interest us as we want our film to be focused in the UK first and we wouldn't distribute online as we want to achieve some money to cover the costs of production and distribution

Evaluation Question 2

How does your product represent particular social groups?

I have answered this question using a PowerPoint presentation which I have embedded onto this pot below

Question 2 representations from louis Russell

Here are some images of the ethnic minorities and both genders. Below we can see black and white characters and male and female. Furthermore you can see from their clothing they are middle/working class and they are young. Furthermore in the last picture we can the picture that the killer crosses off, from there we can see all victims (future ones too) are young females who are wearing casual clothing.

Evaluation Question 1

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

We answered our question in video form.