Evaluation

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

The film that we made used traditional stereotypes that have been and are still used in films of the same genre. We based our film type on the way that the Blair Witch Project was filmed, using hand held cameras, but had the basic story line from films like Scream or I No What You Did Last Summer, where the killer stalks their victims. Our film followed the normal conventions or real media projects because of all of the still pictures at the start, and the main character, shows that the stalker, or the presence, only targets women. This is a normal convention because most films of the same genre use women as the victim.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our film represents the young adult and women social groups because the main characters fall under this category. The film that we made has traditional representation to the young adult group that are students because the film shows the social side of this group (when the main character meets with friend on the bridge, chats on the bench and on the phone) and is filmed in a school. Our film represents women more than any other group because the main character is female and is shown to be an independent woman. She is also not placed into any sort of group, such as Goth or chav, and will represent a wider range of women.

Meeting with friend on bridge

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

I think a main stream distributor might distribute our film because it has a good plot and has a big fan base of that genre (thriller/slasher). A distributor like Columbia would more likely distribute it because they have done films like the Grudge which comes under the same genre as our film. Because a main

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This is the logo for Columbia Pictures

Who would be the main audience for your media product?

The main target group for our film is teenagers that like thriller/slasher type of films. This is our target audience because this is the style of the film, and I think that this audience is easier to please since this genre has so many possibilities and plots that can happen. I think that the main target group is teenagers because they can relate to the characters in the film. Although the main audience is teenagers, I think that this would appeal to any one that likes this type of genre. We made the film for this genre because of the large fan base that it has and the fact that it has so many possibilities that the film can go down and then have a twist at the end.

How did you attract/address your audience?

We attracted the audience by using special effects on the still pictures at the start. We use the ken burns effect, where the picture moves from one side of the screen to the other, for the pictures to make them look eerie to set the mood whilst the titles a rolling at the start. We also used sepia on the pictures to make them look used and slightly older. We also paused the film at certain places to add suspense. Another tactic that we used was not having any

dialogue in the film to so that the audience can make up there own minds about what is happening.

This is a picture that uses the ken Burns effect and sepia

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

From making the film I have learn how to edit the film using i-movie programme and how to combine two clips together. How to add sound effects to the film, for example the shutter effect of a camera at the start of the film, and how to use the camcorder to maximise the shots in the film. I also learnt that big special effects are harder to create than I first thought. I also learnt that the storyboard is very important to the making of the film, and that the research helps make the film run smother.

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

Some of the preliminary tasks that we did before we started to film were found harder to film than we thought. For example the original start for the film was the main character walking in through the school gates. We found this hard to film because there were too many people getting in the way of the shots and the zoom on the camera was not as good as we thought that it would be. We also had to change some of the locations because they were to hard to get to or film at, e.g. crossing the road outside of school. We also had to cut some of the scenes form the planning of the film when we found out that we were not allowed to take the cameras of off the school grounds.