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 

Q4&5: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract your audience?

An institution that would distribute our media product wouldn't be a conglomerate, it would be a small distribution company in England that liked the look of our thriller opening. However, because our film was very low budget, means that were limited to how we market our film. With a small distribution company, like Film Distribution Association, they are an independent company and because of this, our film would require different marketing to a mainstream blockbuster.

The internet is a very good way of effectively distributing new films, through video sharing sites, which can be rated out of 5 stars, and comments can be made, so a good amount of feedback is received, which tells you what your audience thinks about the clip, which is a very simple and cheap way to get find out what people thought was good, and could be improved. This would be our main way to advertise our film, and then maybe through that, an independent company would then buy our film, because they see the potential in it. Blockbuster films would be marketed very differently to gain a wider audience, through cinematic releases, premiers, billboards, Facebook, twitter, flyers, posters, as well as video sharing sites like Youtube and Vimeo.

Task 1:
Bbc film network, is a realistic showcase, which provides opportunities for young film makers and help get the product to the market.
Amateur film http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p00dsjw7

This film maker found an audience by uploading their film to the bbc film network, for people who want to get opinions about their film making, from other people who like to browse and make short films too. This can be a very helpful and expressive way to share your films and learn techniques to improve your own.

Task 2:
Vimeo, a video sharing site, where lots of different audiences can find it.

Task 3:
Youtube, a very popular video sharing site, which reaches a wide audience and user comments and ratings.
 to be continued

Evaluation Q2- How does your media product represent partcular social groups?

 This is a comparison between our hooded pictures from our film and 'Kidulthood'. This can stereotype how the characters in the hoods are always the culprits. However, as a society we know this is not true. However, as this is a film, it will be played with and abused by the film makers, in order to make the film good and realistic. However, in our film a hood was used to disguise the culprit. Whereas, in 'Kidulthood' a hood was worn as a fashion statement, as the young teenagers of today often wear them. It is also common for adults to wear them when they are exercising or just simply dressing casual. 


 

These pictures show a jumper that we put on our psycho teacher as part of her clothing being worn in the class. We didn't want to make it obvious that it was a teacher as we wanted to make the audience work. If we put a jumper on the teacher and shot scenes of being in the class, then the audience would have to figure out whether the character was the teacher or a student.

These pictures show weapons that were shown in the films. The bat was the famous weapon that was used to kill in Kidulthood. Whereas, in our film, we just done shots on these classroom objects, as they are simply tools, but can also be used as lethal weapons.

Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our opening has a taster of violent, agressive behavior, when I beat Lashmi on the ground. This is similar to the people in kidult/adulthood's social groups, unnessisary anti-social behavior. The type of clothing i was wearing was suspicious because my hood was up, and you couldn't tell who i was from a distance. This is a feature of gang culture which can be intimidating to the public. Our opening is based on a steroetypical view, to make it clear to the audience that i wasn't a "goody". However, because im a school teacher, it seems very strange that i'd want to kill my students, that why i dressed unusually to how a normal school teacher would. Even though in the classroom im wear a sweatshirt, which is still similar to what i wear when i go to the park and hurt Lashmi. 

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.

 

Q1: In what ways dies your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products

Our title sequence wasn't entirely based on a another films title sequence however, Any Human Heart's titles were simliar, as they are in quite a small size and abstract font, which we used. We used small font so the titles seemed more like they weren't there, and the trailer alone was more important. The clips in the sequence were also establishing shots, which help identify the location, which is done in Any Human Hearts opening. Any Human Hearts opening is very simliar to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang's opening as the title pictures are really abstract and it person is a shadow, there are no features you can see apart from the bodies outline.

This is the title sequence screen grabs from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,  which also uses very simplistic style for their title and similarly the font is small and positioned to one side, to create an effect. However we chose to place all of our titles in the middle, so they were clear, and usually easy to read. And centered is very formal, and can always be seen because its in the middle.

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.