7) Looking back at your prelim task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the final product?

This is a video that me and the director made in answer to the question " Looking back at your prelim task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the final product?"

6) What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

http://popplet.com/app/#/4021111

This is a link to the popplet i made to answer the question " What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?"
Below is a screen shot of the popplet should there be any problems with the link.

5) How did you attract/ address your audience?

This is a prezi i created in order to answer the question " How did you attract/ address your audience?"

4) Who would be the audience for your media project?

Evaluation question 4 – Who would be the audience for your media project?

Firstly, our key demographic is teenagers/ young adults. This is because as teenagers/ young adults ourselves we would find it easier to market something that we would watch. Essentially, we know what works on us. Not only is it easier to market but it also makes our film more relatable as the actors are young which could make our film more appealing and understandable to them.

Our film will have a certification of 15, this is because, as said, our target audience is teenagers. However we don’t want to limit the audience so we don’t want our film to be an 18. We feel our thriller we appeal to this generation as it isn't overly aggressive or frightening, but is thrilling enough for teenagers.
 Another thing to point out is the fact that our film only stars men. We may have unintentionally lost a potential audience by having no female characters. On the other hand, this could make it more appealing to male audiences. In addition, men are generally the target audience for thrillers/ action films. Similarly to gender, we didn’t think of race as a factor. This is because we simply chose the best actors in our group. Hopefully this won’t affect the audience too much as there are only two characters anyway.

Additionally, we feel as though British teenagers specifically would be the target as that is what the film is based around making it more relatable for this audience.

Furthermore, we could potentially increase our market audience as we have only done the opening to the film. This could be his first attack and we could include women and different races. Furthermore, we could introduce relatives of the victim to provide interesting story plots, which could appeal to anyone we want it to. Essentially , although now our audience is fairly limited. We could increase this drastically. This is one very good thing about leaving a thriller on a cliffhanger, it means we can go down virtually any route we choose.

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

This is a powtoon i made in order to answer the question " what kind of media institution might distribute your media project and why?"

2) How does your media project represent particular social groups?

This is a video of me and the director of our media project, sam, answering the question: " How does you media project represent particular social groups?"

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

Our media project uses some of the forms and conventions we have come to expect from thriller films. The first of these conventions being frequent action. Our film doesn't have that much action, rather a dramatic buildup to a climatic conclusion. This is because we have a limited time to film an opening to a film. As it is the opening, we can't have too much action as we needed to focus on the plot and building the suspense. If we were to make a whole movie we would include a lot of action.
The second aspect of a thriller is fast pacing. Fast pacing is used to make the film seem quicker and make it appear so that a lot happens in a vey short space of time. Our thriller opening is fast paced to a certain extent. This is because, again, we decided to focus on the building of suspension and the tension and drama. Another important feature is that the characters are smart and resourceful. Smart and resourceful characters make the plot more dangerous. However, we didn't have enough time to tell the audience that the characters are smart. This is why we decided to use a mask and black clothing to tell the audience quickly that this is a dangerous character who needs to be feared. Furthermore, we made it obvious that the intruder was driven and dedicated to murdering his target by using the collage. This showed planning and precision in choosing the target. The fact we have a driven villain makes it scarier as there is nothing scarier than a villain that has nothing lose. Along with the thriller conventions, there are some added characteristics that make a thriller more interesting. These consist of: a red herring, a cliffhanger and suspense. As stated before, suspense is one of the things we focused the most on. This is because it is what makes the audience feel like they are apart of the film. We included a cliffhanger at the end. This is because we want the audience to feel scared for the protagonist. Furthermore, we want them to feel like they have to keep watching to find out what happens. The last thing to include was a red herring. We chose not to include a red herring because the screen time we had was limited. In hindsight, we would've included someone knocking on the door, or the wind blowing something over that scared the protagonist, this would've, again, added to the suspense of the film and made it eve more dramatic when the villain attacks at the end.

Here is a comparison of the villain in our project and one of the most common villains of all time, Jason. As you can see, the hockey mask is used fairly commonly as a villainous prop. this is because it hides the persons face which adds an era of mystery to the character. It is in fact this mystery which most viewers find scary.

Similarly, the kidnapping itself is reminiscent of a scene in "taken 2" in which the actor gets kidnapped using a bag. Our thriller does this in a more abrupt fashion in order to scare the audience. In the scene in taken it is just used to the character doesn't know how to trace the kidnappers. 

Furthermore, we decided to incorporate the theories of Tzvetan Todorov. This theory suggests that all narratives follow a three part structure, where they begin at the state of equilibrium in which everything is in balance. Then something or someone has to come along to disturb the equilibrium. Finally, the equilibrium must be restored or a new equilibrium is formed.