1. Media Evaluation ‘ Behind Closed Doors’ Katherine Vargas

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? There are many ways in which we used forms and conventions to the best of our ability and we made sure that we were able to look and plan carefully so that our final media product was creative and well planned out. Location: The location was based in both a school and on the street. This created and reinforced what genre we were basing our opening scene on (Physiological Thriller). It also means that we would be creating a verisimilitude opening sequence that would create enigmas for the audience as well as present our narrative and scenario. Plot: The plot helps the audience follow the storyline/narrative and also helps create enigmas as well as building up tension. As our media product is a physiological thriller, it means that we had to make it scary as well as tense and exciting and so we developed this with filming and editing. Characters: Our main character was mentally disturbed, and so this fit the genre well and helped maintain that scary feeling of a thriller. We also made sure that the Hannah (main character) acted strange as well as acting strange. Camera work: Camera work was essential because it would help create a good opening sequence. Close ups, High angle shots and more helped show vulnerability in our character and create scenes that made up good continuity and an understandable narrative.

6. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? When I look back and compare my preliminary task and my full product, I can see big changes in progression. I think that there has been major improvement with both the practical work and the editing work. When it came down to planning, I think that it was a lot more detailed the second time round, because we had experience and had more of a sense of what we were doing. I think that our practical skills with the camera were also a lot better because we had more experience with the tripod which allowed us to have more steady and professional looking shots. This then allowed us to edit our shots with more accuracy and we had more knowledge on how to use ‘video editor’. I also think that because there was more time, we were able to experiment with a lot more things. An example of this is when we used video editor and learnt how to use different transitions to add better continuity. Timing also helped because we were able to plan things out a lot better and prepare ourselves for what we would be doing each day. I think that group work was also a good aspect from the preliminary task to the full product. We all shared an equal amount of responsibilities as well as communicating and sharing ideas with one another. Overall I think that the main thing I have learnt in the course of this project is that creating a good full product involves a lot of practical work as well as being able to think of arrangements and then producing an eye catching final product, and looking our work now I can defiantly say that it was successful.