Evaluation!

1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
In the film it has typical things such as: titles, actors/actress’, narrative, storyboard and an institution.
The film has titles, which are normal to have in a film, there are around an average number of titles like used in many film introductions.
The actress isn’t really normal, because you don’t normally get eleven year old killers who push people off cliffs, I think that this challenges conventions of film because films aren’t usually made like this because people might find it hard to understand what is going on and why there is an eleven year old killer.
The narrative could possibly challenge conventions, because it is a weird one, having a killer/psycho child isn’t normal and it is hard to get to grips with, because it isn’t that realistic, because eleven year old children don’t go around pushing people off cliffs. It could work, because we have made it, and it is easy to understand because we have had feed back of parts that are not understood and edited that so it is easier to get to grips with.
I think that the film could give a message out saying how it is totally unrealistic that an eleven year old would kill.
In the research we decided that the child would have a background of being badly treated, so this could give off the message that you shouldn’t treat your child bad, because this might happen.
The meaning behind the intro is that things that happen in your past can affect you in the future, what ever it is. Take this intro for instance, the girl is badly treated at home, so she feels the need to get revenge on men of a certain age.

2.How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My media product represents a stalker/psycho killer.
This is shown throughout the film, because in the beginning we see the actress walking down paths, hiding in bushes looking at the person she is stalking, she is also seen behind him, she is watching him closely waiting for her moment to get him. She is shown to roll him off the cliff and him landing in water and being dead.
By seeing her following, watching and killing, the audience can tell what she is a stalker/psycho killer, even thought it might not be so obvious at the beginning of it, but it gets more towards shot three.
The target audience for this film is not going to be stalkers, it is most likely going to be people of “12/12A”, so it isn’t too scary and gory for them.
The blatant target audience would not be stalkers because it is about them, so they wouldn’t be able to watch it because it might affect them or give them ideas.

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
(Monday, 13 October 2008) I think that ‘Lionsgate’ or a smaller institution would distribute our product; I think that a smaller one would be more realistic, because we didn’t have much time and we spent little or no money on the film at all, it was low budget. By having a smaller institution it would be ok, but that would mean the film might not be as well known and as well advertised, because they won’t have as much money to spend on advertising and everything. It wouldn’t matter if we had a smaller one though because we have made a poster and that would give good advertisement.

4.Who would be the audience for your media product?
(Thursday, 11 September 2008) Now I think realistically the audience would be around a “12A” or a “12”. It is not scary or gory enough to be a 15, and I think that this audience might appreciate it better and get a little more scared because they are younger, and they don’t understand that things like this are not real.
This audience range wasn’t my first intention, because I thought it would be much easier to create something that would scare people, but now I know it isn’t easy to get the perfect storyline, because you have to think about how the audience are going to interpret it. It is harder than I thought to create something within the age range of a “15”, it has to have a certain amount of things to make it a “15”, which my film doesn’t have which is now why I think it would be between a “12A” and a “12”.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?
(Wednesday, 26 November 2008) To attract and address the audience for my film, my partner and I decided that we were going to create a poster, the effect of having a poster is that it can go out to any audience and anyone can see it and think I want to watch it.
We wanted to it make look like it would be in cinemas or on the internet and look like it was good enough to attract an audience. Therefore, we made the poster quite similar to the design of the movie ‘The Grudge’ which has given me so many ideas, and we used our actress Vanessa on it, we used ‘Photoshop’ to make the perfect poster, and we used our names on it as well. Also we put a few stars on it to look like it’s worth watching and it had a good review.
I thought by making a poster it would make the film known and people would want to watch it, and because it looks creepy people could be intrigued and want to know more about it.
The poster is a good way to address and attract an audience because you can make it really good and interesting and people will be drawn in by the fact that it is such a interesting poster.

6.What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
The products we have used in the process of making our introduction are:
>By using ‘iMovie’ I have learnt how to edit my film, learnt how to cute clips and make them the way I want them.
I have learnt how to add transitions in between scenes, learnt how to add music, titles and different effects. This product has been the simplest one to use, because you get used to using it and once you have got the hang of it you don’t really forget it.
‘iMovie’ is simple, and there are minimal effects on it which aren’t amazing and I wouldn’t choose to use many on my film.
From using ‘Adobe after effects’ it is a lot different to ‘iMovie’ it is more sophisticated and so much harder to use and understand.
I have learnt that this product is better to produce effects on and make the movie more professional looking. From using this I have learnt that making effects and doing things to the movie take time and a lot of effort and it is hard not quite as simple as ‘iMovie’
From using ‘Photoshop’ to create a poster, I found out how hard it is too use, I have learnt that it is a difficult process to produce a good looking poster with different effects on. I think in time for all the products I would be able to use them to some extent, maybe a bit better than I can now.

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
My preliminary was such a small task compared to doing the intro, it was a big step from just using a small camera then going to the Canon XL2.
I thought that the preliminary task was going to be tough, because I didn’t understand the concept of the 180 degree rule, but from doing this small task I have developed a better understanding of how to things.
The preliminary task helped me to understand and get to grips with using ‘iMovie’, which at first was quite hard, but now it is easier and I understand it so much better. (Wednesday, 24 September 2008) We started from the very beginning, and I think that I have become better at understanding how to use the majority of the products we have used.
From the beginning, I have learnt how to use ‘iMovie’ which involves editing, adding and removing sounds, putting titles in and adding transitions.
(Tuesday, 18 November 2008), (Wednesday, 4 March 2009) and (Wednesday, 29 April 2009) ‘Adobe After Effects’ which allowed my partner and I to make proper titles with more complex effects, and much better selection of things than ‘iMovie’ can offer. I feel I have learnt and progressed quite a lot from not being able to even use the camera to having filmed, completed and fully edited 2 minute film intro.