Q1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Many thriller opening have the convention of high speeds to
create tension. Another convention in action thrillers is to have men,
generally the antagonist in suits. There is also strong violence included.
Foreboding.
Q2 - How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
In my piece I have challenged the stereotype that lower
class citizens are the cause of problems in society. Instead I have introduced
the idea that they are being victimized and are running away from people who
abuse their power to control others. I presented these ideas by including a
chase between a 'predator' and 'prey, The predator being dressed in a suit,
something typically associated with 'upper class model citizens' and the prey
in plain clothing, and jogging bottoms, something linked with 'youths' who are
dubbed as trouble makers.
Corrupt government, power hungry.
Images of characters- diagram of their stereotypes,
Q3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your
media product and why?
My thriller is very similar to 'The Matrix', with the
psychology of it. Because of this I have chosen that institutions such as
'Warner Bros.', the distributor of 'The Matrix' trilogy, should distribute my
media product. As many films are distributed to other countries, not just the
country of origin, I have decided that 'Roadshow Entertainment', a branch from
Australian distributors 'Village Roadshow' would distribute in Australia, in
order to reach a wider audience, whilst Warner Bros. would distribute to Europe
and America.
Present via Images of institutes and voice overs.
Q4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?
The age rating for my product would be 15 as there would be
Any of the following:
Strong violenceFrequent strong language (e.g. 'f***').
Portrayals of sexual activity
Strong verbal references to sex
Sexual nudity
Brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence
Discriminatory language or behaviour
Drug taking
From the BBFC website
The target audience would generally be male, in the age
range of teens to 20’s.
Q5 - How did you attract/address your audience?
High speed action in the opening entices the audience
automatically as it gives a clear indication to the pace of the movie. Casting
similar aged protagonist and antagonists to audience make it easy to relate to
the storyline and the characters, engaging them further, as they could almost
imagine themselves as the characters. Relate-able storyline attract the
audience, more exaggerated rather than farfetched. If my project was to
continue then there would be attractive female cameo roles to engage the target
audience.
Q6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
Adding titles to videos as this was something we didn't
include in the preliminary task. Also adding sound effects to it and adding
different sound clips to my project, editing sound in terms of changing the
speed and length of the audio to create different effects. Lighting was something I didn't include in
the preliminary task.
Q7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel
you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I have learnt that planning and researching was vital for
the process of creating the project. In my prelim task there was little
planning that wasn't very in-depth. Whilst planning my final piece I realized how detailed the planning had to
be, from costumes to lighting and camera shots.
Another thing I have learnt is how to organize my timing for
filming and editing. I had to film outside of school for my final piece in
order to make it more realistic, and I had to organize when my cast would be
free for filming as well as borrowing any equipment from the school; all of
which were things I didn't need to do in the prelim task.
