Evaluation

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

DaVinci Code

USED:

  We have used the typical thriller convention of building suspense by not letting the audience fully know what is going on. Within our final piece, we have used this convention as the audience doesn't know why she is bare foot, walking down a long road which is very dangerous, in the freezing cold, looking tired. This is used in the Da Vinchi Code when there is a man, half naked tied up to a board, looking very uncomfortable. 

credits from inception.

 

We have used credits in the standard place within the opening, as they are usually over the top of the piece, reflecing teh subject being portrayed. Ours are very bold, blocked and look as though they have been printed on, to create a unknown, 'who typed them' affect. The inception link with their theme, as the lettering is a maze, reflecting that the subject is based around a 'need to find the end/ escaping' theme, which it is.


DEVELOPED:

Black Swan

 We have developed on the character as it is usually a man aged between 20-30, who is strong willed. However, we used a woman character, which is more unusual to find within the thriller genre. The Black Swan used a lead woman characterful and it worked extremely well, however it stayed within the normal age of 20-30. We felt the lead of a woman worked well so used it, but felt we would be more effective if we created the character not be withing the typical 20-30 age boundaries and to make her younger.





We challenged the use of cross cutting as typically is cuts between two different plots, running along side one another. We however, cut between the past and the present (flash forward/flashback, separating with the use of a blur, which could indicate confusion) using the same character making it unclear for the audience to fully know what is going on and this manipulates time.
 
inception, crossing between the two levels of dreams.


CHALLENGE:

The Ring.

We challenged our piece by using a very horror genre based story line with a thriller twist. It had a fair amount in common with thw horrow 'The Ring'; the costume; the long hair and the fact she was trapped/isolated, however it was a thriller as the story line was very 'thriller filled' and it had many conventions which fitted the thriller genre.

Seven

We challenged disability within our piece as our character had a limp. This is completely opposite to the usual thriller convention, which is usually a strong willed, intelligent, dependent, mighty man, who doesn't show any sign of weakness. However ours shows a women who is psychically ill/weak, and by the way she is dressed within her surroundings, mentally ill as well.

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Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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Q3. What kind of media institutes might distribute your media product and why?


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Q4. Who would the audience for your media product?

• It would be a female, as the main character is a female, and this would appeal to women.
• The female would be a brunette as the character has brunette hair and aged between 20-25.
• She would be a university graduate, who studied law, as she'd think about what could happen and try and work out the plot. However, she would be very 
•  laid back, and enjoys spending  time with friends and family, having meals out, and going clubbing with friends.
• She's a social consumer of films. She'd have many dvd's, of which vary from chick flicks too her favorite type of films; psychological thrillers.
• Have the up to date technology; i-phone, i-pad, HD ready TV, laptop, however would have many law books of which she used to study. She would also have a few thriller books, in which she would read when she goes on holiday, but would leave them there as she doesn't want to clutter her home with books.
• Her work life is very hardcore, as she has to investigate and work out many investigations. She is very clever, and can work out tricky situations, that is why she likes a good psychological thriller with a twist. 

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Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?




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Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? on Prezi

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Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?