Evaluation :)

I feel that after our hard work, problems and mistakes that our thriller came together pretty well. During the making of our thriller we have learnt many new skills such as using new software called imovie to make a high quality video. Our group has had some problems but we overcome them and overall produced a good piece of work.

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

When thinking of ideas for out thriller we considered other thrillers. However in the extract that we made we do not see the PROTAGONIST. As this is only the opening of our thriller you will see the ANTAGONIST later on in the film.

Also when looking at our film we feel that the thriller 'The Ring' and our thriller 'Ring of Roses' show some similarities:

We also understand the genre of thriller and have included the content of a perfect thriller such as dark lighting, cliff hangers and suspense to make the audience want to keep watching.

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

Our group feels that our film is mainly aimed at young adults as it shows that the film is strongly about child bullying. It shows that the teenager would mainly attack someone in the park so therefore it is representing teenagers in both ways of bad and good but it is basically showing what life is really like for teenagers in Dagenham because there are teenagers all the time attacking others and therefore this media product shows a strong view on bullying.

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

The kind of media institution that might distribute our media product would be one that likes the idea of social realism. Also this film could be a way of teaching young adults about the ways of bullying and the consequences for this.

Our film could be distributed for viewing by a real production or distribution company. This could either be in the UK such as 'FilmFour' or 'Metrodome' or it could be distributed in the USA such as '20th Century Fox' or 'universal'.

It could also be viewed in many different ways via the internet which is a massive way of getting anything that is produced to be seen. Youtube is a major public website that mostly everyone has been on.

There are other internet websites that advertise films and distribute them:

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience of our media product would pretty much be anyone who likes a basic idea of a thriller, where there is a basic story line behind and the effects of the camera and effects put on buy the editing software imovie. Also it becomes more sinister and mysterious as the film goes on. However the majority of the cast and the victims of the killer would mainly be teenagers so the film could appeal more to teenagers and also there is a message behind the thriller about bullying which would get across to the teenagers.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

The way that we attracted our audience was by showing in the extract mainly teenagers because the film would mainly be for teenagers because most of the cast would of been teenagers and also it would show teenage life in dagenham and therefore teenagers would of been able to relate to this.

Also with the actual thriller and the editing also kept the audience attracted. For example the jump cuts at the beginning and the sounds behind it makes the audience want to keep watching to see what it will lead to.

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

I have learnt a lot about technologies from constructing this product, for example i have learnt how to operate a camera and i know what every button is for etc and how to record and also how to use a tripod in different ways to get the best camera shot, i also learnt how to use the imacs and edit movies and input sounds into the movie and also how to put in different effects such as dissolves and dark lighting.

We also use different camera techniques and shots in our thriller, we use shot/reverse shot which is when we see a person looking at someone who is off the screen, and then the camera switches to the other person looking back at the first person, which lets people know that they are looking at each other.

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

Looking back on the preliminary task which our group made, i can see that we have learnt a lot just from filming over the weeks, we have learnt a lot more techniques and camera shots and we have also learned a lot more on how to operate the camera.We also learned how to edit much easier and how to put in music into movies using the mac computer. Also in our preliminary we ignored the 180 degree rule which now looking at our thriller we have taken it into account. Also comparing the thriller to the preliminary exercise you can see that we had a greater understanding of the editing and filming equipment.

'Ring of Roses'

'Preliminary'

Overall i enjoyed creating a thriller and i am looking forward to more exercises which involve filming and acting.