Evaluation

Conventions of Thriller Opening

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

My film is based as a thriller movie and is called Dead End, just by the title we know that it isn't going to be a happy/comedy film. Our film is very serious and this is mainly so it can build up suspense,tension and uncertainty whilst watching. Due to our film being a thriller we had to make sure that the colour we used wasn't colourful and the music wasn't a happy tone. Therefore meaning there should be a lot of harsh, loud, thumping noise, etc in order for the audience to feel more engaged and also start to make them feel a lot of anxiety. Our soundtrack which we created is a type of tone/melody which relates to the type of our thriller and works together very well. Within a thriller it isn't just the acting or how your able to create suspense to the audience in a spectacular way but it's also how you put things together very well. At the beginning of our thriller our soundtrack fits in miraculously well giving the audience an exciting feeling. Also the the types of camera shots which has been used contrasts with our soundtrack nicely making the audience question themselves whether this film is going to be as interesting and scary as we've made it out to be, by the opening clip.


2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?
It represents Tahera as Vulnerable although she is in a busy market and this is a contrast with Tahera being alone whilst other people are getting on with their lives. Tahera is wearing a head scarf and this indicates that she's either trying to or is only approaching/trying to attract the asian community. Our film was located in Bethnal Green and this is a area which is popular for Asians. However we havent filmed our clip in a specific Asian area, our main location I believe is the market where she buys the flowers. As you'll be able to see its an diverse community and everyone seems to have come together seen as there are a lot of ethnic groups. Tahera, seen as being soo afraid of her surroundings, although she's around a lot of people could also indicate that she is trying to portray females as being more of a victim within society. This would be because women are known and seen to be vweaker, vulnerable individuals and not as strong or unworried as men.


3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
The media institution which might distributw my media product would be WT2 and this is because our film is a thriller and refers to how WT2 produces their film. My reasons being is because we also used British locations as we filmed in England. I will be showing my media product every week in the cinema. I will upload my media product on to youtube similarly to this one as it is a low budget film. I will do this in order to appeal and attract a mainstream audience and computers being a common technology I will be able to get passed on to different types of audience. Also uploading it on youtube as shown will also help my media product to get a lot of hits and become well known.



4) How will you attract/address your audience?
Placing my thriller into the real world of general cinematic release, my thriller would get a mainstream release. For e.g both Shaun of the Dead and Star Trek recieved a mainstream release. Shaun of the Dead appealed to a kind of 15-40 age group as it was both comedy and thriller. Shaun of the Deads institution is WT2 as it's also a low budget film and put more advertisements such as trailers on the homepage, games etc. This way it helps them to appeal to more of an audience. On the otherside Star Trek appealed to more an an older audience such as 16 onwards. However they also appealed and attracted the younger generation as they had games,toys and costumes which they'll definetly be interested in. It also appeals to mainly men when talking about gender wise. Its basically attracted to an audience who is matured, loves action and seriousness. Star Trek is the same as my product in a way of attracting an audience of aged 16 onwrads. However there's too many differences within our films. Wheres as Shaun of the Dead is appealed to the same kind of audience and is WT2. Its also a low budgeted film like my media product and is a thriller however my product doesn't involve comedy. Shaun of the Dead related to my thriller clip more.








This is the type of cinema in which my thriller would be shown at if it was going to be a real world of general cinematic release.











They style of marketing campaign i would envisage for my movie as shown and will be a wide-scale global release. To attract audiences we will use OOH media aswell as inside home and this will consist of billboards, facebook, youtube and asian magazines. We will use youtube and facebook as internet has a huge impact on encouraging and persuading people to watch our clip. Also due to our audience which we are appealing to, they are the ones mainly who would be surfing the net, especially the teenagers. We will advertise in the Asian magazine becuase our film in a way appeals to mainly the Asian Community.



5) Who would be the audience for your media product?
Our film is directed to the audience aged from 16 onwards also working class people aged 20 onwards would be interested in our thriller clip. This is because on their days off work they like to spend their free time doing something they are interested in. "Chinequa 21, I love it when it comes to the weekend, Saturdays, my girlies and I love going cinema to watch the latest horrific, spectacular, tense thriller films. We enjoy the suspense which are created throughout them and we really like screaming up the place in uncertainty and scaryness."



6) What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
As media, we learnt how to use viedo cameras, Softwares such as Live Type and Soundtrack etc. This is the clip of still images with a voiceover note which we created. It's also showing one of us within our group (Tanika Warner) talking about what her group have used over the past few months. Using a range of different types of technologies helped improved the creation of our product by far. With using these technologies we were able to fiddle around with it in order to have better use of it so we can create a better piece of work which we did.


7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product.
As shown underneath there's a huge difference between our match cut and full product. There's a difference within mise-en-scene, camera angles, camera focus. In our preliminary task we learnt how to use match cuts, 180 degree rule and reverse shots and this helped us to have a better use within our clip in our final product. Our final product looks a lot more professional than the preliminary one.



8) Audience feedback and comment


This is a audience feedback from 2 students at City and Islington 6th form College who watched our clip. As you can see we have recieved to positive feedbacks which is wonderful meaning we used all our technolgoies and lessons very well.

In my media lesson we went on to www.wordle.net and typed a few words which we believe referred to our clip and thrillers in general. We then customised these words in different fonts, layout etc to what we want.