Evaluation - Question 1

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

A conventional film opening will start with the production companys ident then the distribution ident, if there are any famous actors in the film then they will come up before the film title as the film producers use this as an additional marketing strategy, the film title will come up next after this all the other actors taking part in the film will show next, then after this the rest of the crews tites will show for example, casting, costume design and music. the last people to show are the executive producer and the producer.

The titles in films are usually plain in either black or white in a plain font that is easy to read. The conventions of a film opening can change depending on the type of film opening it is, for example a narrative film opening will differ from a discrete opening because a narrative opening will give the audience insight to the caharacters whereas a discrete opening will keep as much as it can from the audience. Mainly, film openings consist of special effects, titles, music and a narrative that introduces the main characters to the audience.

This GIF shows the conventions we followed when adding our titles to our opening sequence. Our font size is quite small in relation to the whole frame, the font is white and a relatively plain type. I have also used our production companys ident.






This GIF is from a film that has already been made andit shows how i have followed the conventons of film openings as you compare the two.

Evaluation - Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Representation refers to the construction of a social groups in media, stereotypes are used to help represent characters in films to help the audience connect with and understand the characters more clearly. In our opening we represented middle aged men that are gang members, we portrayed this stereotype negatively because we showed them as aggressive and violent and involved in organised crime. This follows the conventions of normal media because the media in the real world will present middle aged gang members in a similar way.

This is a mood board for the stereotypes of gang members

This is me dressed up as a mob leader, this goes with the stereotypes because i am
dressed smart with a shirt and tie.

This is also stereotypical because he is using a gun.

Evaluation - Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation - Question 4

Who would be the Audience of your media product?

Thriller films are usually aimed at young men  in particular, our thriller has gone with the usual conventions of thriller films and has two main characters in our film and they are both male. Our thriller is a crime thriller and the main target audience for this type of thriller is also male. Our audience is males from ages 16 to 26, as social media is used by people in that age range I have decided to make a Facebook page seeing that the people that our film is aimed at will be the people that will be most likely to see the page. I think our thriller is aimed mostly aimed mostly at this age range because of the setting of our film 

Evaluation - Question 5

How did you attract/address your target audience?

Evaluation - Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies fro the process of constructing the product

Here is a wordle of all the different technology that we used in making our thriller opening

Evaluation - Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? 

Question 7 is asking me to look at how i have improved my skills throughout 
this whole process. 

Importance of planning and research 

Planning is very time - consuming and for our prelim we didnt have that much time to plan or planning for our prelim consisted of a storyboard but it wasn't as detailed as it could have been because of the time limit, on the other hand our planning for our opening title sequence was much longer with around one to two weeks to plan we had more than enough time to plan our title sequence, our storyboard was much more detailed than our prelim, we brainstormed ideas and threw ideas back and forth while coming up with the main concept of our opening, whereas when planning our prelim we just had an idea and went and filmed it in one lesson. When planning our prelim we didnt worry about costume and/or mise en scene , we just got the filming equipment and filmed. But for filming our opening sequence we spent time thinking and planning our costume choices, we also went to our main filming location before hand to do a risk assesment as to what could go wrong while filming. This wasnt necessary when filming our prelim because it was all done inside the building. Lighting for our prelim was just a LED light but in our opening we didnt have to worry about lighting because it was outside.

How much better was your camerawork/framing

For our prelim and our film we used the CandI ident

Looking at our prelim our shots weren't up to scratch but we were in the process of learning the 180° and the rule of thirds. My skills have improved since the prelim because i have learnt about the focus in the camera and the 180°  and not breaking it.

Our filming wasnt as clear as it was in the film

How much better is your editing

Throughout this process my skills in final cut and editing footage have vastly improved, learning how to make titles on final cut and adding transitions to my film and titles, I also improved my skills on using Soundtrack Pro and choosing the correct sounds to go with my film, putting them on a timeine and the moving them back to final cut. In my prelim sound wasnt very important so i just chose the firstgood sound that i heard on soundtrack rather than scanning through the sounds and chosing them according to the theme 

Establishing shot where we filmed outside for our title sequence

How has your teamwork improved?

Teamwork has improved since the prelim because we learnt how to communicate with eachother, getting eachother to do work, making group posts on the blog and dividing our workload making the process of making our film easier on all of us.

Filming ouside the barbican a busy area and framing is much clearer

We used titles in both our prelim and our opening

Our meetingscene in our prelim is different to our meeting scene in our title sequence