Question Seven-Preliminary Task.

The purpose of the preliminary task was to allow us to become familiar with a camera. This would give us the ability to use many different camera angles, sizes and movements in the process of making the final production. Throughout this process, we also learnt how to become more comfortable with Final Cut, and how to create basic edits for effect. In addition to this, we were able to designate the final group roles, based on everyone’s individual skills. We did this to make sure that everyone was suited to their roles. Where My Technical Ability Has Improved. Throughout the filming process, I feel that from filming a second time, we have improved on the amount and quality of the shots. This is because in the preliminary, we didn’t include that many and we stuck to the easier ones. We tried to expand our range in the final thriller filming. We also learnt how to make sure that the shots weren’t as shaky, by using a tripod at all times, when a handheld shot isn’t necessary. During the editing process, we have improved on making the transitions – use of fade to blacks was used to show new characters and scenes. These improvements in the final thriller, looked much smoother, and it make each clip flow well together. The use of non-diegetic sound to accompany visuals. In prelim, had a lot of background sound and dialogue that couldn’t be heard properly, in the final prod, instead we incorporated sound to highlight action and create tension. This effect would make the audience more scared for the characters, as the soundtrack is very eerie and uncomfortable.

Question Two: How does your media product represtent particular social groups?

Question 6.

Question Five: How did your media product appeal to your target audience?

 

We tried to appeal to our target audience the best we could for the final media product. We did this by looking at our questionnaire results and trying to use the things that the most people preferred. For example question two of our questionnaire was “What age group do you fall into?” and the most people selected the “18-20” box. This made us realise that the majority of people that would be interested in watching a thriller movie would be around this age mark. This is why we decided to make a movie that was of an 18 age certificate.

 

Another example would be question four “What themes do you prefer within a thriller?” As the two most popular answers were rape and obsession, we decided to make those two themes the most apparent within the movie. This is because it would fit the most people’s preferences and would therefore result in a bigger audience.

 

Question seven of the questionnaire  was “Which lighting technique do you think would add more tension to a scene?” and the most popular answer was “under lighting”. This is why we made sure that we used this lighting technique in our thriller.

I believe that we managed to appeal to our target audience quite well because we tried to stick to what the public wanted the most from us, so we would gain more popularity as it would suit more people in general.

Question Three: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product?

Question three. from KloeBoylan

Question Four:Who would be the audience for your media product?

Question One: How Does your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

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

During the making of our thriller, we wanted to include as many conventions as possible, in order to achieve the best results.

For example, we decided to set the majority of the thriller at night which is a conventional feature as the audience would feel more afraid for the protagonist/victim.

Also, the torture/rape scene concept was inspired by ‘I Spit on Your Grave’ as the victim gets raped. Also by the way we ended our clip it was unclear on how the narrative would actually end, so the audience don’t know if the victim will live or die, or come back for revenge.

The fact that we decided to include a female victim for our thriller is conventional because the audience will automatically feel more scared for her safety as she will appear much more vulnerable.

Several other movies have include the concept of dramatic irony in the sense that the audience know that somone wants this girl, and something bad will happen at the party, but she isn't aware.
 
Even though the female is subversive in a way that she is wearing dark clothing(which could possibly suggest a darker side) she would be typically conventional because she is walking home alone, at night, through a park. This element
 sort of reflects the plot of 'I Spit on Your Grave' also, as the female is subversive because even though she wears white and is vulnerable at first, she goes to seek revenge on everyone who harmed her.





Out of all the different theories surrounding narrative, I feel that Aristotle's theory has been portrayed through our thriller. This is because he believed narrative was based on deriving emotion from an audience normally through fear or tragedy. As our narrative is about kidnap and torture, the audience are more likely to empathise with the characters and therefore give more of a reaction to the scenes that are being shown.