Evaluation 6) What have you learnt about techniques from the process ofconstructing this media product?

What I've learnt:

I have learnt a variety of skills through technologies from the process of constructing a media product.

Firstly, I learnt how to film a thriller, using different camera angles and edits. Using different cameras doesn't only show different angles; it allows you to see characters responses and facial expression, which allows the audience to interpret how a character is feeling.

Constructing a media product also allowed me to use Blogger. Using blogger allow me to expand upon my knowledge on how to conduct research, planning for my thriller and also how to publish plans and research in which I carried out.

I was also able to learn how to edit scenes for a film. I was able to add special effects to scenes, for example changing the quality of the background by manipulating light. Learning how to edit also allow me to merge different clips to make it all look like an full scene, rather than showing separate clips.

Without Sony Vegas I wouldn't have been able to carry out the edits. Through YouTube I learnt how to do most of the little tweaks in which I needed to know in order to edit scenes within the thriller.

Evaluation 5) How do you attract and address your target audience?

Secondary Research:

In order for me to attract and addressed my target audience, I'm going to use secondary research. Secondary research is simply research that is being carried out with existing research. 

The reasoning for using secondary data is because the research allowed me to identify the conventions that are being used in the thriller, in order for it to appeal to the target audience. For instance, I used secondary research to research colours that have specific meanings and the colour black represents darkness (evil), so I used this for the villain.

My research also made me find out that my target audience were people from the ages of 15 and older and that there was a division between male and female (unisex). 

The emotions in which the audience will be feeling towards the thriller will be a mixture. For the first scene the audience will feel fear because they are in fear of what is going to happen to the female victim. As the scene progresses the audience is to feel the tension, as the antagonist is about to catch victim, but as she walks up the audience is going to feel relieve to see that it was only a nightmare. The emotion of the audience is mostly going to occur doing the action scenes, e.g. when the victim is running away from the antagonist.

After I carried out my questionnaire, it showed that:

My target audience would be: 15 and over

Gender: Unisex

Attracting Audience:

To attract my audience I create a questionnaire that would first of all determine who my target audience was going to be, then I asked them the type of that they prefer, psychological, revenge, obsession and crime. For the results we show that psychological had quite a few votes, but obsession seemed to be high in numbers also. Our group then tried to come up with a story line that would fall into both of these categories and would attract the target audience. 

Four Main Questions That Were Asked Within My Questionnaire:

In order to find out how we were going to find out our target audience and make our thriller attract them, we had to create a questionnaire. 

Within our questionnaire we asked them 10 questions. Within those 10 questions, 4 of these questions stuck out to me which would allow us to find our target audience.
The first question I had to find out was 'What theme do you prefer within a thriller?'. Knowing this would allow me to figure out what type of thriller my group was going to produce.

Another key question in which I ask was 'What gender do you think best suits the role of the victim?' between a male or female.
The majority of the answers drew towards the female, because they felt that a female could seem more vulnerable than a male.

Team discussion:

For our group I took pictures if us discussing and editing our thriller. These discussions were needed and helpful because it allowed us to recap on our blogs and see what we all needed to do as a group to enable our thriller to attract our target audience.

Evaluation 4) Who would be the audience for your media product?

Film Age Classifications:
U - Suitable for all
PG - Parental guidance
12A - Suitable for 12 year olds and older, with the supervision of parents/guardian
16 - Suitable for 16 year olds and older
18 - Suitable for adults only
Rated R - Licensed adults

These classifications have to be brought into consideration when choosing a target audience.

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

Evaluation 2) How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Group?

How does your media product represent particular social? from DwayneGrossett

Evaluation 1) In what ways does your media product use, developorchallenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The Task:

The task was to create a thriller opening about three minutes long, which maintains conventions and expectations if the film's genre. This should be the result of the research and planning that we carried out before we started the filming and editing process. We also had to use all of the micro-elements within our thriller product and ensure that we were following the conventions.

Generic Conventions of a Thriller:

Within the aspects of cinematography, conventions should involve: film shots, angles and movement. A convention for a thriller within cinematography is the use of a low angle. Low angle shots are used to show the superiority of the antagonist and makes this character look more frightening/intimidating to the audience than the other characters. 

Another convention that is used is a high angle which shows the inferiority of a female protagonist.

A close up shot is also another convention because it is used to identify the details of Iconography and the character.

Fast paced editing is also a convention due to the speed building up suspense and tension within the audience, for example a fast paced edit during a fight within an action movie, this would raise the tension within the audience, due to everyone being at the edge of their seats trying to see what's happening. For the Mise en scene the conventions would be weapons, such as knives,guns, etc and representations of violence, so that would be like blood.

Generic Conventions Within my Thriller

Cinematography - A shot that we did within our thriller was a close up shot if our female victim. Doing this allowed the audience to see the expression which was an the actors face and body language, letting the audience know how she is feeling. We also used a close up shot again on our actresses face when she woke up, letting the audience know that she has just woken up from a shocking nightmare. 

Editing - Slow paced editing is used to build up tension among the audience. This happened when you saw the victim fall on the stairs and the stalkers legs appear by the stairs door.  

Fast paced editing is used with our thriller whilst the victim is being attacked in the corner with a close up at the end. This allows the film to speed up and the tension within the audience rises because they are eager to find out what is going to happen.

Sound - The non diegetic sounds which we create gave the audience the impression of a mysterious type of thriller, which in some cases is correct due to the stalkers identity, age, reasoning for doing what he is doing, etc is unknown.

Mise En Scene:

Costume: The main colours that were worn were black, which represented the thrillers characters as being vague and mysterious. Whilst the victim had on a black coat she had on blue and grey trainers, whilst the antagonist mostly had a black.

Iconography: The iconography that is used in the thriller fits the the expectation of the audience.

A phone is used in the first scene as victim is being followed by the stalker, due to the stalkers psychotic state of mind. The female victim starts to have a conversation on her mobile phone, which then diverts her attention away from the fact that someone is slowing approaching from behind. This shows the significance of the mobile phone.

This iconography is also used in the film 'Matrix', where Neo and the rest of his entourage have to use their phones in order to exit danger whilst they in their parallel world. Although the phone is being used differently here, it still shows the significance of the phone. 

Setting: The setting fits expectations  of the audience in the terms of convention. The second setting which is at the female victims' house, fits the expectation because she lives alone in the house, so in some sense she will be isolated. As it is revealed in the first scene, it was only a nightmare, so the main action begins to take place within the house. This develops the convention of the thriller genre.

Conventions of a Target Audience:

The target audience response would be anxious and a it scared, not only from the scenes but for the female victim.  In thrillers, the generic convention will be for the thriller to appeal for 15 year old and older. The reasoning for this is because anyone under the age of 15 wouldn't be to relate to the themes of the thriller and wouldn't be in the age range to watch this content. When creating the thriller, we had to take this into consideration, so we had to carry out a questionnaire, so we knew who our target audience were and create a thriller that their age range would be interested in.

Planning Mise En Scene

Miss En Scene: mise en scene is the setting, body language/facial expression, probs & lighting. 

Mise En Scene For Stalker:

Within my thriller the Mise en scene will be used crucially used in each scene and used to make conventional to my thriller. 

Setting:

The setting will be within an alley way which is seemed to be hardly used and a house in which the main antagonist lives by herself. 

We choose these settings because it had an effect on the audience; due to the stalking starting in an alley way, this meant that this would most likely occur in normal day to day life. The house setting was chosen because it made the audience feel that the stalker had some sort of psychotic mind set and due to the girl living be herself, it made the audience fear for her.

Body Language/Facial Expression:

The facial expressions and body language of the female character will represent the way in which she will be feeling because she will be scared and agitated and making her in the process, vulnerable.

Location of Film: