Question 7. What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

In order to answer question seven, the group got together and were each responsible for helping out with something in the film. Temi put together the Final cut production, Whilst, Lashmi and mehdi were responsible for writing the script and producing it for the voiceover. As a group, we then put the Final Cut production and the voiceover together, editing the voice in timing with the pictures and adding in fades. As a result we have this video shown below. 

4&5) What kind of media institution might distribute your product and why? How will you attract/ address your audience?

After making a movie thriller, or in our case a thriller opening the distribution stages which follow are very important in relation to how successful the product will be. Some the kinds of things that we have to take into consideration before picking a media institution are: 

• Weather or not our target audience uses the site/ institution we wand to distribute our piece.
• If the institution is known (even if it is not a popular site; it might still work to our advantage)

In class we looked at a range of different media institutions and what some of their benefits were, we also discussed why it is important to chose the right one. Below are some of the ones that we discussed along with the advantages/ benefits of using them. 

Vimeo - Is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos.

             - Different from YouTube seen as it specialises in movies and short independent movies 

             - Videos there attract a more niche audience (which gives us a wide range)

BBC Film network - Provides realistic showcase opportunities for young film makers 

                                   - Gets the product to the market 

YouTube - Very popular site 

                  - Reaches a wider audience 

                  - Able to receive user comments and ratings (Gives you an idea of how popular/                   -successful your piece is 

Q.2How does your media product repersent particular social groups?

The things that are similar is when Emily has her hood up. This shows representation of age/youth as although she is played as a teacher she is disguised as a stereotypical teenager. The hood that she is wearing also conveys age as it is stereotyped for teens to wear hoods especially the bad ones, which Emily does play a part in as she is definitely not a good person.


Here are some of the clips that are similar from our piece and the movie Adulthood, from these images you can see that the stereotypical teenager is represented using the cliché stereotype of wearing a "hoody" and a pair of trainers.

One of the differences is that she is a female which goes against the stereo type as the teen being a male. Usually when it comes to violence it is a male that is shown doing the killing but in this case it is different.

 

Q.1) Conventions of real media product.

This is the 9 screen shots of the opening of the film Se7en.

Here are the screen shots of our thriller opening, as you can see there are quite a few similarities in comparison to the screen shots from the movie Se7en.

I think that this title sequence is quite similar to the one our group made for our film. As most of the writing is the the same as ours, for example when it says a film by as we also had one. In addition the writing is behind the film while its playing this is also included in ours as some films just show the writing in a black background. Furthermore the 6th screen shot shows a marker that is crossing out a face similarly in our film there is a screen shot where the killer uses a marker to cut out Lashmi's name.

6) Audience feedback and comments