Evaluation Notes

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• We have used two male and one female character. This can be interpreted in two ways, first being male dominance and female vulnerability, as the female is in Psychiatric hospital and would appear to be insane, and the other being female innocence.
• We have used a night filter which has increased tension and a feeling of uncertainty and suspension in our thriller opening.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
• Our opening shows a stereotypical mentally ill patient lying in a plain white room with nothing mentally stimulating around and where the patient has just been left to wallow in self pity.
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
• To try and get our thriller piece noticed by a big production company like "21st Century Fox" if it were to be made into a feature length film, we might make a mini film of our thriller piece "Breakout", using actors like George Baglin, but then if it were to be noticed by such  big media institution, and a more established actor like George Cloony could fill the part of the unestablished actor like George Baglin.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
• Our target audience would be yound adults onwards.
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
• We would try to attract people who seem to show and interest and get creeped out by the mentally ill and those who enjoy detective thrillers.
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
• I have learnt how to get distorted angles on a camera to create an eary affect, how to use Final Cut to create different affects on our footage like night filters and how to emboss and sharpen the footage.
7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
The preliminary task was no help to our media, because  for this we didn't need to do any researching or make a story board, which meant we didn't have much understanding or practice for what was expected of us for our thriller. Although we didn't have much understanding into what wen into story boards, etc, as we had the blogs of the groups previous to ours, to look over and gain a deeper understanding into what was expected of us and how everything needed to be strung together. The group now understands how to identify and record specific shots that would create certain tension and atmosphere in or thriller. I now feel confident in using all of the equipment and using all the equipment. Although the preliminary task didn't prove to be very helpful with the story board and research, it taught me how all of shots work together and camera angles.