A typical convention that our media film contains is many enigma codes. This is because the mans face is hidden and only his back and hands are shown. This is to express the feeling of mystery as the audience will ask questions such as who is he? why is he there? what is he doing? and What is he going to do? If his face was shown it would ruin the narrative of the film and there would be not much point carrying on watching it as you have no suspense to look forward to and it would loose the audiences attention straight away. I think this convention makes it very interesting for the viewers to watch. This is because it is very confusing but interesting at the same time. This is similar to the film se7en were hands are shown at the start of the film in the graphics and nothing else untill further into the film. We also changed the settings to black and white and blury to express a dream and his mind. This is also to show a difference to help the viewers understand more and to question why is it different?
Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?
We used a male character at a young age to develop a mental illness through out the film. It goes against the idea of that when you are young you never suffer from a mental illness. It also explains that anybody can have a mental illness no matter what age, young, old, male or female. It shows the stereotypical rock star who spends his money in the wrong ways. We also used a red bright jacket. This connotes, anger, hatred and even love or lust. The pills represents he is indeed of help and the fact there is none left he can not controll himself. The plant in the first shot can also explain his life before he had his illness, a good healthy life whereas now he is killing himself slowly.
We used an Oasis poster in one of the shots to show that the main character is very into music and to show the stereotypical younger person's bedroom and there style of life. The guitar also represents he is a musician. In the film he is shown to be a famous musician with many problems this supports this idea. This shot also shows him asleep with his clothes on on top of the sheets. This represents that he has passed out before he had chance to get ready for bed. This is stereotypcial for a young adult to do. It can express his use of drugs and alcohol and just genral tiredness from his crazy life style. It also explains what a famous rock star would do. This is very stereotypical. He is wearing a watch and there is a clock on the side. This signifys he has a busy life and as a young man he is still experiencing life and going through time.
This shot with the photo of the scream painting in the background represents his personality and character. It shows he is unaware of his actions taking place and unaware of how crazy he can be. It shows he is very creative and artisitc and has an interest in art aswell as music. The painting its self is ment to mean many asumptions. It connotes, dreams, illness, being lost etc. These all relate to the characters personality, emotions and feelings. We managed to get the shot with him entering the room to express he is entering his madness which is going to accur.
Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
This link fits well for our Thriller this is because it is suitable for a psychological thriller and it distriutes very short films and it has a good range of genre's and sub genre's which goes very well with our type of narrative.
http://www.dazzlefilms.co.uk/http://futureshorts.com/index.php?site=3http://futureshorts.com/index.php?site=3
This link is very similar to the first one as it distriutes short films as well which really suits our film as our film is not very long.
This website advertises and sells films, but wouldn't distribute our film as it is only Amber Films that get showed so it would not suit our company.
This link comes across as very professional.. i looked through them all and this one seems to suit our film well as it sells many films related to our film
This website includes lots of films and the genres are easy to find so this would be a good website to show and think about whether they would distribute our film.
This website is a film distribution library and would be a great website to advertise and put our film for sale on because it suits our film very well.
Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?
The target population for our audience we chose was for teenagers around the ages of 15 - 18 + This picture shows the types of people and the age teenagers who would be viewers of our film. They look quite intelligent so they would understand the complex storyline in our thriller film. It shows both males and females in the photo to express different types of people who would be shown in our film. It also shows general people who would watch this film.
Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?
To find out what our audience preferred we distributed a questionnaire with twenty questions on and from the findings of it we shaped our film around the preferences of our target audience. For example most of our target audience preferred for the film to be from the killers perspective rather than the detectives and more people said a psychological thriller is better, so we took this into mind when designing the plot for our storyline.
Question 6: What have you learned about the technologies from the process?
Overall, we learned a lot about the technologies of editing from the process of making this film opening including how to cut the shots with precision and using different effects such as blur and changing the colour from black and white back to colour again, and creating still frames from our moving shots. Also we learnt how to put music into our film and take sound out.
Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?
Throughout the time of studying media studies i have progressed thoroughly and learnt many new skills involving using the programme we have been using to create our Thriller opening scene. My editing skills have improved and i feel more confident when making another film or project. I have also learnt how to set up the camera and use it correctly. I have learnt new media laungauge and and technical terms when discussing and explaning. over all i believe i have improved a lot from the beginning tillnow.
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