Monday, 31 March 2014

4) Who would be the audience for your media product?

From the audience research that i have carried our i have found that our media product would be best suited to young people. I think this is because everyone that features in our thriller are all young people so this might be why our media product appeals more to younger people.

As our audience feedback was all collated online this could be why the majority of feedback was from younger people as they tend to use the internet more than older people, this could mean that our audience feedback could guide us to cater for the incorrect audience as there were few replies from older people.

As you can see most of the people tat responded to audience feedback were relatively young.

I think that our media product will appeal to people from a working class background, this is because all of the people that appear in our film are from a working class background so the working class might be able to associate with the characters in the film.

From the people who gave feedback on the finished product we saw that most people enjoyed the film, all of the people who watched the film were young working class people therefor i am unable to comment what people from other age categories and classes would think of the film.

This shows that people questioned in the audience feedback preferred the crime genre of films.

During the audience feedback i asked what genre of film they like the most and none of the people asked preferred thrillers, crime was the most popular, this tells me that the people asked are not the target audience for my media product.

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

After some deep thought i have come to the conclusion that there are a small number of companies that could distribute our media product. Small companies such as film 4 and dogwoof would potentially be able to distribute our film to the masses. The big six wouldn't distribute our film as we are a small British company and don't have the recognition or budget of larger film companies.

This is the logo of a small distribution companies for low budget films, they could potentially distribute our media product however this is unlikely.

Also going straight to DVD could also be an option but not the best, this is partly due to the decline of DVD sales over time and also as we are a small independent company we wouldn't have the recognition for people to buy our product it would also be hard to find a company to retail the DVD.

This is film 4 who could potentially distribute our product on DVD though this is highly unlikely.

So after consideration i have decided that the best way to distribute our media product is through social media e.g. YouTube or Facebook. I chose this as this method is a free and easy way to distribute our film to the masses over a short period of time and also helps us get recognition and potentially get our product out to millions of people.

2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our film the only social groups that are represented are white teenage males on the working class of society who take part in white collar crime.
This means our media product follows the stereotype that working class people take part in gritty crime, this means there is somebody more powerful telling them what to do behind the scenes which the viwer doesnt get to see.
The people in our media product are portrayed in a negative light as they are seen to be taking part in crimes and harming others to get what they want.
Other stereotypes are that the youth of today arent nice people and our media product meets this stereotypes.

Blue collar crime.

In our thriller the bosses are all men this meets a stereotype as it suggests that women have no authority, especially in serious things.

The target audience for our media product is young people as from our audience research we found that the main audience of thrillers is teenagers, this is because it is a fast paced high octane film which appeals to the majority of young people and less so to older people.

1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge of reral media products?

1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge of reral media products?

In our media product we used a number of thriller conventions. One of these conventions was the mucguffin. The macguffin was the usb stick which is pretty irrelivent but is needed to drive the story.
We also use d a number of camera techniques to add dramatic effect to what was happening on screen, the techniques we used was high and low andgles, this made some characters look tall and powerful whilst making others look small and weak. In our media product we challenged no conventions as the oppurtunity to do so didnt occour.
We also used a handheld shot which which gave our media product more realism and put across the type of product that our film is, this is also a thriller conbvention.
We used a number of effects to make our media product look like a more professional product, the main effects we used were transitions.

High angle shot.

From all of the thrillers that i have been studying i think that my media products is most similar to Psycho.

I thinks my media product is most similar to this as it isn't clear who the villain is from the beginning but as the clip goes on the viewer can work out who the good and bad people are, but it takes a while to get there.

Our media product doesn't challenge any media conventions as my group wanted our product to be as thriller like as possible.

Choosing font

When choosing font for our credits we decided to use a very simple white font, we decided to do this so attention isn't taken too much away from whats actually going on on screen. We also decided that the font should be white so that it can be read on a dark background. Our film is quite dark so the text is clearly seen on top of the film.

Finding music

In order to find music for out thriller project I went to youtube, typed in "Thriller music" and found some music that fitted into our video and was not copyrighted.

We was going to use mobygratis.com however you have to wait for a response to see if it is okay to use that music and the response time was to long therefor we was unable to use this for our music.

Animatic

This is the animatic for our final thriller.

Monday, 10 March 2014

Audience research

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