1. Patrick Greenberg

2. Our media product immediately starts with a chase.The runner (Rory) thinks he has got
away when out of the blue one of them re-appears and knocks him out. It then goes
to the title of the film and the opening of the next scene starts with somebody else
opening their eyes.There are lots of popular action films that have similar style
openings, such as the Bourne series and more recent James Bond films.They tend to
have a long chase scene to begin with to immediately grab the audiences attention.
They also use gun shots and big stunt moves that we were unable to do as we had no
budget. I feel we emphasised the fact that he was being chased when Rory tried to
hold them off at the gate and we showed the violence of the chasers at the end when
he smacked Rory on the head. I also feel we added a possible twist at the end when
we see somebody else waking up.The audience must then judge for themselves
whether this was all a dream or how this will then link to what has just happened.

3.  The locations we have chosen suit our chase well as they are closed in roads.
However it is unusual to see a violent/criminal chase in the rich college areas
of Oxford.We chose to make the smallest person the runner as this creates a
hierarchy of power, at the end this is shown as the biggest person is the one
who hits Rory. The music we have chosen for the chase is very fast paced and
the heartbeat sound afterwards keeps the tension from the chase right until
the very end.

4. We can tell that all three characters are teenagers. People immediately associate
teenagers with hoodies and gangs.This film backs up that idea showing the two
thugs chasing a scared male.We also see that the thugs are not afraid to confront
Rory, showing there is no love loss between the characters.Therefore this film is
representing teenagers as violent thugs who don’t mind hurting others to get
what they want.

5. Film Four is the obvious institution to think of, as it takes on young British talent and
helps them develop into successful directors. However after looking at similar films
we saw that Universal was the institution that distributed the Bourne series.
Therefore letting them distribute our product may help it become more successful
as people can relate to other films of similar genres that they have liked from the
same institution. However I imagine it would be a lot harder to get involved with an
institution such as Universal as they have a worldwide reputation, whereas Film
Four has a national reputation meaning we would have a much bigger chance of
having our product distributed by them.

6.  If neither of these institutions were to distribute our film we could try to appeal to a
less well known but worldwide distributor. Babelgum (http://www.babelgum.com/)
is a free, revolutionary Internet and MobileTV platform supported by advertising.
Although their main aim is to distribute professional videos they also try to nurture
emerging filmmakers.This would help improve our filmmaking skills whilst at the
same time allowing people worldwide to view our product.

7. Our target audience would be an age range of 15 to 25 year olds, predominantly
males. I feel this is the age range that can most easily relate to teenagers and
they are also the most likely to be interested in this genre. I feel that the idea of
violence appeals more to the male market.
It is most likely to attract a lower/middle class audience as action/crime style genres
are less likely to appeal to an upper class audience.

8. The audience is immediately attracted as it goes straight into the action of the chase
with fast paced music.The only piece of diagetic noise they hear in the whole
piece is the sound of Rory panicked calling his girlfriend.This creates tension
which we have tried to build by using the sound of a subtle heartbeat over the
top of it.The audience may side with the protagonist as he is outnumbered and
looks scared.
When I was reading the feedback sheets one of the main things people liked was the
point of view shot. I feel this was probably due to the fact it allowed them for a
moment to experience the position the protagonist was in, which made them
even more sympathetic towards him.

9. I have learnt how to add 3D titles effectively into our piece.We carefully selected a
font that worked as graffiti on the wall as people ran in front of it.This involved
editing frame by frame using a mask to make sure the text was always behind the
body.
I also learnt that the music should always be added last.This is due to the fact that if
you add it and then decide you want to cut out a frame the music will not be fluid.
We chose to get rid of the sound from each individual clip as when they were put
together it made the video sound amateurish.This was due to the fact there were
different pitches of white noise in the background.

10. When we started this project we were very keen to take any good parts from our
preliminary task and use them in our main task. As a group we all particularly
liked the way we ended the prelim with it going to black.Therefore we have used
this technique at the moment Rory is hit from a point of view shot.
We used the stand a lot more than in the preliminary task as although it was
frustrating it allowed us to get much better looking shots that were much easier
to edit.
We have used a much bigger variety of camera angles to try and show different
techniques and also in certain cases to try and show an amount of time passed or
distance travelled.