Evaluation: Media Thriller opening: Dissapearance

1) In What ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product. My Thriller opening is a hybrid between action and thriller, the conventions of the thriller are there to build suspense and tension in the audience. if there is only one film i can directly compare my thriller to it would be The Blair Witch Project with its hand held camera filming and jerky shots. with shot stitching and overlapping and fading in the editing the film then transcends from the horror style into the thriller end of the spectrum with the film being a large chase seen with majority of trillers/horrors using chase scenes themselves e.g. James bond and others.

2) How does your media product represent particular social groups? The characters are both represented as "Street" or "chav" with the clothes they are wearing and hoodies being used. a hat on the main character can be interpreted as a discuise or concealment which csn be seen in the final chase as the character in the blue clutches at his pocket this suggests he has something important on his person, this together creates a sense of danger, trouble, and even violence and the tone the film suggests to the audience that both of if not one of them are volatile just by what the characters are wearing.


3) what kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? I believe that my media product/media thriller would interest up and coming small film institutions because i think they would like to take the concept and mould it into something alot more appealing to a wider range of audience. I would think an institution like Film 4 would be suitable for my media product because they have experience in developing small low budget film. I have resaeched other films similar to my media product was The Blair Witch project wich was developed by Haxan Films situeated in Beverly Hills the name Haxan is taken from the swedish for Witch.

4) Who would be the audience for your media product and why? The audience for my thriller would have a few main areas in popularity from i believe them being: young audiences willing to give young film makers a chance at major film making also people who would enjoy quality real life situations we dont get to see, especially through the eyes of the charcters where we can pinpoint the moment exactly "lving in the moment".

5) How did you attract/address your audience? Throgh many different ways because my media product would be aimed at younger people like students etc so the best ways are through the internet and social networking sites using advertising on popular pages to attract attention to the product. We would be able to keep people up to date with relevant information with constant posts and updates. Other forms of "advertising" can be used to reach wider range of audiences with the use of tv adverts and billboards but in my opinion these would be very expencive and too high brow for my media product.

6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing a product? i have learnt an abundance of skills and techniques from creating this media product. i had to venture into video and sound software i havent used before and feel as if this has enlightend be to realise the difficulty involved in getting a product perfect. there are many different ways to manipulate and edit sound and video and with this wide range it is easy to show different ideas and techniques in others work which gives each product a real identity. i can now relate to real Films editing and manipulation as i have now tried myself so i appreciate it alot more because of all the effort and time involved.

7) Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product. i have learnt many differnt lessons between both tasks one of the main points i believe in is how to arrange different scenes to build emotion and supence in the audience any sequence can be used but to experiment and to search for the perfect smooth sequence of scenes and shots to make the audince empathise with the charcters involved in the film. Effects are also impotant in my product i used sound effects and manipulation which added more to my product, where as in the first i only used simple video editing and no sound manipulation.