Evaluation Question 5

 Question 5. How did you attract/address your audience?

We addressed the target audience by making one of the characters (the main protagonist) relate to the audience. Are target audience is people with either children or siblings. We attracted the target audience by creating a certain atmosphere in which some of the audience might have been in before. We also attracted the audience by making the opening as realistic as possible. We done this by making the opening that the older brother has to look after his younger brother. This opening would relate to the audience because most of the audience would have been put in this position before. We did this by making him a stereotypical teenager. This would link to some of the audience because some of the audience would be around that age and understand the character because it relates to them. The younger brother would also relate to the audience. The character would relate to the parents of the audience because the character is played as a stereotypical 6-8 years old. We did this by making him look innocent and venerable.  The parents of the audience would relate to this because they would understand what it would be like to have a child at that age and because of that, they could relate to the whole opening.


The types of camera angles we used to make the audience relate in different ways. One camera angle we used was a POV shot of Jack (Harry) running around looking for his brother. This shot was used to make it look like he was panicking. This might address some of the audience because they could have been in a similar situation and could relate to the panicking.

 Another way we have addressed our audience is from the reaction shot of the younger brother in the flat when the older brother tells them they are going to the park. The reaction shot of the brother was an important shot because it showed the characters attitude. The characters attitude would be similar to other kids around his age (6-8). That would mean that some of the parents of the audience will understand this shot and reaction.


The music we used in the opening would attract most of our audience. It would attract most of the audience because the music we chose had a every creep theme. We chose a piece of music which sounded similar to a nursery rhyme and that would symbolise a child. The overall creep theme of the song is there to build tension in the scene. This would attract the audience by the use of enigma codes that work with the song.

The editing we did for the opening would attract our audience. We used different types of editing techniques to attract our audience. One of which was quick cuts. We used this near the end of the film quick cuts to show the build of tensen. The build of tensen will attract audience by creating the enigma code of 'What will happen next?'.
  

Evaluation question 4

Question 4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

The target audience is extremely important throughout media studies. All media is made with a target audience in mind. There are many ways we could split up the target audience. The 5 main categories is income bracket/status, age, gender, race and location.

There is one common way that of showing the income bracket. At the top of the income bracket it would be lawyers and doctors for example. At the end of the bracket there would be unemployed and casual works. our target audience would be the people within the middle bracket so that would be tradesperson and junior managers. These type of people would be used for our target audience because The characters and setting we used would be common in the middle of the income bracket.

The age for our audience would be 16-40. We chose this age because we thought that people between this age would have a younger sibling or have a child. Age was a important factor in our target audience because it was also a big part in our opening sequence. The age between the two characters was important because it could also be represented as the same age as our target audience. Gender wasn't that important in our target audience because our target audience was directed at both. But females might have a greater emotional  attachment to the younger brother and that might make a difference in our audience gender.

The location would be people who live in a suburban area. This would be people who live outside the main city. We chose a suburban area because the film was set in an suburban area which would mean the audience also lives in a suburban area or has lived in a suburban.

Our group decided on our film classification to be 15. We decided this classification because it meets with our target audience. We didn't chose lower because we think that younger people wouldn't be interested with the thriller genre. We also agreed that having the classification at 15 would allow us to use forms of graphical scenes if we were going to make it into a whole film.

Evaluation question 3

Evaluation question 3. 

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

Evaluation question 2

Evaluation question 1

Evaluation question 1

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

In our product we used and followed most of the typical codes and conventions of the thriller genre. We used diegetic and non-diegetic sound, enigma codes and different camera angles. We also included a flashback to make it meet the conventions of a real media product.

The main inspiration for our media product came from different British TV thriller dramas. The main influence which we biased our Thriller around was a British thriller called 'The Missing'. We biased this for our main narrative of our media product. The missing is about a family which goes on holiday to France and their son disappears and the series is about the father trying to find the son a few years later. Our media product was made similar to the missing but we chose to have two brothers going to a park and the younger brother would go missing when the older brother is looking away. So our product develops a narrative similar to a real media product

 This is the missing compared to our product.

We used different types of special effects one of them were flashbacks. In the start of our product we included a flashback this was also inspiration from the missing. They show a scene in the missing where the main character is taking on the phone about finding something. So as a group we decided that we could make this scene into a flashback for our opening sequence. We have done the flashback at the start for it to create enigma codes.

A editing technique we have used is the use of slow mo. We used slow mo for it to build tension. We used the slow mo in a few short scenes leading up to the younger brother disappearing. Another editing technique we used is adding in different types of sound. We added in different sounds over the scenes too added more tension. For example one of the shots were the older brother kicking a bench. We added in a louder sound of him kicking the bench to make the sound stand out. We also used a POV sot when the brother is panicked and looking for his brother.

The mise-en-scene was important to our opening sequence. Our location was suitable to the type of characters we had. We chose a park because it was typical of where a child would be or go missing, We also shot this in day to subvert conventions. The typical conventions would be for it to be filmed at night or to have dark lighting. But we subverted these conventions. We made one scene in the park similar to another British drama called 'Remember Me'. The scene we took inspiration from was one scene with a swing swinging on its own.

Editing

Editing

For our editing we used editing software called Imovie. We done the editing on Ashley's macbook. We decided to use Ashley's macbook because we could continue editing when we are not in school. The main editor was Ashley, he was the one who did most of the editing in the group. We all took part in editing so we all learned the editing skills as well as give advice and feedback.

While we were editing we found a continuity error where the shadow of one of our group members was in shot. We overcome this problem by cropping the scene, this go rid of the shadow and didn't overall effect the scene.

We also deiced the type of music we were going to use while editing. We had three copyright free tracks that we were going to use during the opening sequence. The all fitted well with the scene.   

Our Re-films

Our Re-film's

After we finished planning our opening sequence we then decided when we would go out and film again. Some of the shots we filmed in the first take can still be used when we edit but we decided that it was worth us just re-filming it all. 

We decided to go re-film the inside shots (location 1) first. We chose this because the weather out side was not suitable to do location 2. We finished filming quicker than before because we knew what we had to do. 

To film the next location we had to wait for the right weather so it will fit our storyboard and fit with the continuity of the film. It was easier to film because we have done it before, so it took less time than it did in the beginning of the filming. Filming location 2 took us two trips. The first trip we did was to film the shots with Harry's brother. The second day we went filming was to do the shots with only Harry in. Both these days were similar weather so it avoided continuity errors.