Teen Babysitter Thriller Opening Evaluated

Thriller Opening Sequence Evaluation Lauren Rogers

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

4. Who would be the audience for your media product? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Gender: Both, but mostly male -Research has proved thriller films are most popular with young adults, predominantly males, with the sub-genre action thriller, which our film is, being one of the most popular. -Due to this, we decided to target our film mainly towards the male audience, however, due to our film involving a female victim and an underlying romance, also recognised it may have cross-gender appeal. -Our questionnaire results suggested our film may have broader appeal than we expected, as all the females said they would be convinced to watch more after watching the opening sequence. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

4. Who would be the audience for your media product? When A Stranger Calls Flightplan Taken ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

5. How did you attract/address your audience? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Questionnaires Our group developed a questionnaire consisting of a variety of open and closed questions which we distributed to a focus group to complete following a screening of our finalised opening sequence. This allowed us to gage audience reaction to our product and highlight areas of weakness which would be improved. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product? S : Good zoom enabled us to establish normal neighbour hood then focus on one particular house building tension and suggesting enigma. S : Use of tripod enabled a smooth pan shot from living room to kitchen and steady shots throughout to avoid any unwanted shakiness. W : Camera fairly low in mega pixels therefore appears quite grainy when viewed on a large screen, which would be no good for cinema viewing. Problem: Faulty camera could not hold its charge Solution : Plugged camera into a nearby socket during inside filming and used a long extension lead for power when filming from outside. Problem: Interruptions such as cars driving past, car alarms going off and doors slamming. Solution: Removed background noise using I Movie and did more takes for shots which were visually interrupted such as cars passing. - I learnt how to effectively edit shots together on I Movie, using appropriate transitions. I also learnt how to add sound effects to our footage such as dogs barking, which increases the tension and suggests an intrusion. We created a voice recording using a microphone connected to the Mac and combined this with sound effects of a phone ringing and a dial tone to create the telephone conversation, rather than attempting to record it whilst filming. - We found it very difficult to find copyright free music online, however eventually discovered a copyright free site from which we downloaded the soundtrack for our opening sequence. We decided on the track Spider Eyes by Kevin MacLeod, as it is very suspenseful and eerie, setting the sinister atmosphere we are aiming for and also when put behind our footage, complimented the action almost perfectly highlighting the moments of suspense. ,[object Object]

7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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