Friday, 23 April 2010
Evaluation 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what have you learned in the progression from it to the full product?
Looking back at my preliminary match cut task i have seen that many of my skills in filming have improved, this is due to the different shot angles, my match cut task has a variety of shots at different angles, the match cut product was about a pupil who was called in by his teacher for numerous absences, the genres of the two different products were different as the full product was a thriller whilst the match cut product was more of a school type of genre.
The clips that helped us make the final product from the match cut product were the shots of the feet, at the end of the final product we see the feet of the criminal, this shot was taken straight from the match cut tas
k, the pictures bellow show this comparison of the two clips. from the clips below we see that the images differ in many ways, 
the picture on the left shows two people standing still, the picture on the right from the match cut shown a single person walking past the camera. the quality of the images are are clear as walking past the camera creates a blur and doesn't look professional, from the mistakes learned in our match cut we manipulated our official product so that the scene looks more thrilling, the background of the two shots differ thus creating suspense.
Match cuts have been implemented from the preliminary task, the match cuts in our official product have been made more dramatic by introducing slow motion and thrilling actions i.e. jumping over a gate. the image on the left is from the preliminary task and from the image you can see that it is plain and very unprofessional. The official task's match cut ends with a long shot of the actor jumping over the barrier, whilst he is doing this the titles come up on the wall behind him. From the images you can see that there has been massive progress in the differences in match cuts.
Looking back at my preliminary match cut task i have seen that many of my skills in filming have improved, this is due to the different shot angles, my match cut task has a variety of shots at different angles, the match cut product was about a pupil who was called in by his teacher for numerous absences, the genres of the two different products were different as the full product was a thriller whilst the match cut product was more of a school type of genre.
The clips that helped us make the final product from the match cut product were the shots of the feet, at the end of the final product we see the feet of the criminal, this shot was taken straight from the match cut tas
k, the pictures bellow show this comparison of the two clips. from the clips below we see that the images differ in many ways, 
the picture on the left shows two people standing still, the picture on the right from the match cut shown a single person walking past the camera. the quality of the images are are clear as walking past the camera creates a blur and doesn't look professional, from the mistakes learned in our match cut we manipulated our official product so that the scene looks more thrilling, the background of the two shots differ thus creating suspense.
Match cuts have been implemented from the preliminary task, the match cuts in our official product have been made more dramatic by introducing slow motion and thrilling actions i.e. jumping over a gate. the image on the left is from the preliminary task and from the image you can see that it is plain and very unprofessional. The official task's match cut ends with a long shot of the actor jumping over the barrier, whilst he is doing this the titles come up on the wall behind him. From the images you can see that there has been massive progress in the differences in match cuts.
Evaluation 5
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for my thriller product would be action fans, teenagers and thriller fans. The reasons for the selection of audiences would be because the main actor of the thriller is a teenage boy who is fleeing from someone who the audience are not presented to, the factor that a teenager is in the film makes it a film who will target teenagers, the reality of things is that urban teenage films would mostly appeal to a working class audience as they can relate the the things in the title sequence being chased by someone). The fact that there is a feel of violence in the title sequence suggests that there will be action scenes later in the film. The boy kicking the gate open supports this hypothesis. The last scene when the pursuer finally caught up with our victim caught the audience by surprise and thus making our product attractive to thriller fans. Our product is a merged action, thriller, teenage film, this suggests that our product will have a massive audience from different types of class backgrounds, as the middle class would like to see what working class teenagers in the hood have to put up with.
Evaluation 3/4
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract/ address your audience?
The media institutions that might distribute my product would have to be a big hollywood distribution company like Sony Pictures, this predicament is because my product looks like a big british film with lots of of action scenes. The film would have a large target audience i.e. action fans, thriller fanatics, the teenage audience and many more, this is the reason why i would suggest Sony Pictures to distribute our thriller product. The other reason for this would be that the distributer can simultaneously distribute my film to all countries so that the risk of losses from piracy would be reduced. Sony Pictures has distributed many films like ours and i would suggest Sony Pictures to distribute our product because they have past experiences in our type of film and will use knowledge from past experiences to attract a bigger audiences, by putting billboards in certain areas
Evaluation 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
my media product represents a particular social group, this would be the young teenager, in many western societies teenagers are seen as troublemakers and consumers of drugs and are labelled as outcasts to society, in our product we had a teenager running away form someone, the person who he was running away from was never shown to the audience, only at the ending when we see their feet creeping behind him, at the beginning we present out character to the audience as somewhat of a thief as he is a teenager hooded up running through the canal making his escape. The stereotypes about teenagers would state that any teenager with a hood running must be up to something illegal, only at the end of the movie opening we see that he is venerable as he is trying to contact someone, his facial expressions suggest that he is afraid of his follower. The viewer is not shown what happens to our victim because we wanted to keep the viewer questioning what happens.
Out product shows teenagers in different cases/ scenarios, one as a victim and the other a criminal, this challenges peoples stereotypes of teenagers that they can be innocent and venerable. The sample that i would compare my product to is 'collateral' the title sequence starts with a close-up of two men, the audience are not shown who they are or what they are doing, this could be compared to my introduction of the title sequence as we are shown a teenager in this case running for no reason, both scenes start off looking casual but the non diegetic music starts to make them more dramatic, and to build up tension in the viewer.
EVALUATION | Question 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Many of the thriller openings produced by the students in my college develop on the forms and conventions of real media products.
The ways our media product uses are:
- Sound -
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