- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?
The media product that I have produced with my group is similar and also different from typical thriller movies. It is similar in the way that it consists of a lot of suspense and music that creates tension. The movie we made also consists of the typical murderer on the phone storyline which you can find in many thriller movies. We also used Alfred Hitchcock's famous point of view shot which is used in many thrillers.But, we went against typical thriller movies in the way that our main character is a black teenage girl. We rarely see black females as the main character. However, the main character is a female we still follow the concept of wanting the female to be the last survivor.
- How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our media product goes against and also follows typical social groups. Normally women are seen as less powerful which we have shown in movie by the main female getting killed and the low angle shots of her when she is on the phone to the voice. This shots make her seem small and nothing compared to the voice who is most probably a male.Teenagers are normally represented as loud, anti-social, naive and rude. The main character in our movie goes against these stereotypes because she is quiet and does not seem to be rude. But, she does seem to be anti- social as she has no friends. Later on in our opening scene we see that the two other characters act rudely and naive which follows the typical stereotypes of teenagers.
- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
The ideal place we would like to distribute our media product is in a cinema but this is not possible so, our media product will first be put onto Youtube. This is because it is low budget so therefore we cannot afford to put it into the cinema. Our movie may get many views on Youtube and in this case we will then release an improved version into the cinema to make as much money as possible.
- Who would be the audience for your media product?
The target audience for this movie will be teenagers. This is because teenagers seem to be more interested in thriller movies. This may be due to two reasons. The first reason is that thriller movies consist of a lot of killings, deaths, suspense, and tension which they may find interesting and fun to watch. The second reason is that thriller movies normally star teenage character which teenagers might enjoy. This may be because they are similar to their age so they feel like they can relate to them and put themselves in their postion which adds to the thrill of the movie. The film rating of our movie is 15. We decided to make our movie a 15 to attract as much people and if we made the movie an 18 minimal amount of people will be able to watch the movie.
- How did you attract/address your audience?
To attract our target audience we interviewed them before we filmed our movie and asked them what they would like to see and what their favorite type of thriller is. They said they most enjoyed psychological thrillers so we made our movie a psychological thriller and they also said that they enjoy watching people get killed which we also put into our movie, along with a suspense and tension.
- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
From the process of constructing our media product we have found that cameras and media software can be harder to work with than anticipated. But, we have also learnt that certain programs can be very helpful when making a movie. For example Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 helped us edit our movie and Garage Band helped us record the voice of the murderer in our movie. As well as being able to edit our movie Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 also allowed us to add special effects and text. We have also learnt Celtx which helped us stay organised by making storyboards.
- Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I feel that we have learnt how to do better continuity to make our movie look better and more complex. We have also, progressed in terms of camera shots and angles. The camera angles used in our preliminary coursework were simple whereas in our full product we used much more complex shots and angles. For example going from a long shot , to a medium shot and then to a POV. We have also learnt to oraganise out work to save time and money.