Signing out

I have really enjoyed working on so many different projects to lead up to a final project that turned out really well. I have also enjoyed learning about new techniques with software, working with different people and getting to know about the film industry.

Although some parts were challenging to do, I think I have gotten so much better at using all this technology and hope I can continue to get better.

Thanks to everyone that worked with me and helped create something new :) and to everyone that followed on this journey.

Signing Out !

Although I found making the Thriller challenging at times, I learned a lot form the process and really enjoyed it. Thank you for keeping up to date with my journey of making my own thriller through this blog. Its been great ! Bye x

THE FINAL THRILLER OPENING - CAPTIVE

EVALUATION QUESTION: 1

IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGEFORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

  

CONVENTIONS OF TITLE SEQUENCES:

These two pictures show some of my previous research on titles sequences. I had to do this because of my thriller so I now know a great deal about the conventions of titles sequences. 

There is a certain order in which the titles should appear in, however there are some exceptions to the conventional order. 

In this image, it shows a title sequence analysis that I completed. In this title sequence, we can see that it follows the conventional order that many, if not most films follow. 

EVALUATION QUESTION: 2

HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?

Representation is different for different people. They are intentionally composed, written, branded, targeted, and censored by their producers, and that they are entirely artificial versions of the reality we perceive around us. 

This is a collage of the stereotypical 30 year old woman in today's society. In my thriller opening, the main character is a thirty year old woman, but she is completely the opposite of the stereotype. She is mentally disturbed and she commits a crime. However, she does have a job and she does have a house like most thirty year old women would probably have. 

The social group that I have represented is normal working class women who are in their thirties. They work and they own their own household. Normally, these women would have children and a husband. They would probably have a nuclear family and would be part of some type of activity in their community like the gym or dance classes. 

I have presented this stereotypical idea of thirty year old women in a negative way. Although she seems normal at first and she looks like there is nothing wrong with her, when she goes into the house we see that actually she is not normal. It is a negative representation because we are presenting her as being crazy and quite disturbed, which detracts from the normal stereotypical idea of these women. 

EVALUATION QUESTION: 3

WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT DISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT AND WHY?

If we had to choose, a production company that would distribute our film would probably be screen gems. This is because they distributed 'The stepfather' which was the film that we took our inspiration from. 

EVALUATION QUESTION: 4

WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT?

Our media product was an opening thriller that told the story of a woman who is unable to conceive and becomes obsessed with having children. Because of this, she ends up kidnapping a child and in the opening we see her coming home where we eventually see the child and we know something is not right.

Since our film explores the idea of some people having mental illnesses that lead them to doing things like kidnapping children, we thought that our opening falls well into the psychological thriller sub-genre.

Through research I found out that psychological thriller's target audiences are often 18+ due-to them including quite a lot of violence as well as heavy psychological issues that could be disturbing for people under that age.

 For our thriller opening, we decided to make the target audience people from about 18-30 as that is the age range for people that would usually watch that genre. We also thought that it would catch women over 30's attention as one of the main characters in the story is a thirty year old woman.

FEEDBACK FROM SET 7 AS MEDIA:

This was some of the feedback that we got from our class. Both the students and Marisa gave us valuable feedback which helped us to see that we had chosen an appropriate target audience to aim our opening thriller at. 

This is a screenshot of someone talking about our opening on Facebook. We found it very interesting as well as motivating to see this and it helped us understand that we had once again chosen our target audience well. As the film revolves around females,we thought that it was good to see a girl commenting on how much she enjoyed the opening.