Final Task: Evaluation

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The typical viewer that would watch our product would be a Teenager between the ages of 13-21 and would live in western society as the Film "linked" addresses issues that arise the most predominantly in western society. These people will live normal teenage lives and go to school and hang out with friends in free time but may have experienced some form of bullying during their time spent at school allowing them to relate to the film. 

These teenagers enjoy watching mystery and thriller movies like se7en, Taken and identity at the cinema and on DVD. They would be interested in TV programmes such as CSI, NCIS and Marchlands. The channels being watched are Channel 5, Fiver and ITV1. 

These teenagers would be interested in rock, alternative and indie music on radio stations such as Kerrang and be less likely to listen to chart music.

This would be the audience for the movie as they are students and are interested in dark films with good effects, deceptive story lines and action sequences. The genre of the film is non specific to genre as both males and females tend to enjoy these type of films. 

Final Task : Evaluation

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

 

We decided not to have a distributor for our film as we are going to self distribute the film by advertising it in various different ways and places in the hope of finding someone who will back the film. The advantages of self distributing are that the specific audiences can be targeted and reached by small films such as linked. There have been many successful independant films such as "Half Nelson". 

Final Task : Evaluation

How Does your Media Product Represent certain Social Groups?

Some Groups that i think are represented in Our opening sequence are Teenagers, The supernatural, Bullies, The new generation as a whole. In the opening sequence The costume we chose to use for the girl walking home was a school Uniform this represents that she is in her youth and that she has just coming home from school as she is also carrying a school bag. This shows that she is just a typical teenager.
The threatening messages on the phone show that she is getting bullied by someone, this could lead the audience to believing that it is coming from someone at school. This represents that she can be contacted through phone and shows that there is no escape from bullies. It portrays the seriousness of bullying and the effects that bullying has on young people.
The new generation is represented in the opening sequence by the use of technology and by the setting with newer cars in it it shows that it is supposed to be shot in modern times.
The supernatural and things from another world have been represented through the use of special effects and sound effects. The supernatural in our opening sequence is represented as being sinister and cunning and slightly evil. This is presented by the character randomly appearing and following the girl all the way to her house.

Final Task :Evaluation

How Does your media Product use,develop and challenge the codes and conventions of real media products?

The media product that we as a group have made fits the codes and conventions of a typical mystery film with some adaptions made so that it has a niche in the market for that genre as there are a lot of mystery films to compete with. We found from our research that our main product adopts some of these codes and conventions and so does our ancillary texts. The Ancillary texts are a poster which i have made which show the dark lighting which is a typical convention of the mystery genre. Also on the poster the main character is centered in the middle of the page aswell as a tagline and credits.

The ancillary text is recognisable as it contains shots that are in the opening sequence like the Title Linked and shots of the ghostly figure and of the main character. These images will be recognisable and if one is seen then they will be able to identify the film if they see the other. The setting and characters and lighting in the ancillary texts help portray the genre of the film to the audience and they will be able to identify if they are interested in the film or not. 

 

This is a frame showing our Main Title. We placed this title towards the end of the clip to make the audience wait for the big title. They have to keep watching the whole sequence just so they know the title of the film. The title is placed on a black background. We have noticed from our research that a lot of movies use this effect and we decided to replicate this for our opening sequence. We used this as the dark backround gives a great impact on the audience.This is the kind of effect we want to impact upon our target audience as the dark colours are used in a lot of mystery films and prove to be very effective at capturing the audiences full attention. This dark background for the titles is used in mystery films such as the Da Vinci code and Sherlock holmes. The dark backround also sets the atmosphere up for the film and the genre is clearly portrayed to the audience through the use of these dark colours that create a dark and sinister atmosphere. We have researched and used different codes and conventions which are important parts of setting up a mystery plotline.

This is the setting we used for our opening sequence. It is set in a estate as this represents the social class of the girl. It is shot in daylight as it is supposed to show a girl as she is walking home from school.

This frame shows the props that we used in the opening sequence. The props used in an opening sequence can give a lot away about the plot. The props used, which are pills, the significance of the girl taking the pills is that she is upset and depressed. she is also in her school uniform which represents that the reason for taking the overdose is linked to problems arising at school.

We used special effects in our opening sequence to create a different image of the stalker. These special effects help portray to the audience the character that is supposed to be from another world. This special effect is creating enigma, tension and suspence as the audience will be unsure of this characters role and why she is following the girl.

This is a shot of the opening sequence where we tried to use a creative type of camerawork.

The non – digetic music playing throughout our opening sequence definitely sets the mood for the rest of the movie. There are also some sound effects used in our opening sequence which stimulates the audiences’ senses. We used a banging sound for when Manny turns round at the beginning of the clip. We dicovered that the use of soundeffects is important in a opening sequence. We used these codes and conventions based on the opening sequence of the movie se7en.



Final Task : Evaluation

We have now completed the opening sequence and it is now uploaded to my blog. From now on we can't change anything in the clip as the deadline has passed. We are now concentrating of completing our evaluation. for the evaluation we have to answer the following questions and upload the answers onto our blog:
How does your media product:
a)use develop challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
b0represent particular social groups
2. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
3. Who would be the audience for your media product?
4. How did you attract/address your audience?
5. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
6. Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

For our evaluation we have to have a group interview answering the questions, An individual commentary of video
A group presentation of the piece to the class
and an individual blog entries answering the questions.
i will be answering these questions over the next week.

Final Task: Final Edit !!

Here is our final opening sequence which Manny and me have worked very hard on :)

Final Task : editing

We have been editing our final footage for about 2 or 3 weeks now and we are happy with what we have done. Last week we spent a lot of time improving the continuity of our video as some shots did not fit together well. We managed to sort this out and add titles into our video This broke up some of the shots and has improved the continuity of the whole sequence. Music and sound effects were also added to the sequence to create a eerie atmosphere and to convey the nature of the film to the audience well. Thanks to Mr Earl we added suitable sound and the titles were inserted which improved the whole sequence.   Today is the final deadline for the sequence after this deadline we will no longer be able to edit the sequence and this is the piece that will be marked. As Manny is not here today i will export the clip and upload it onto my blog.