Phoebe Hibbert evaluation: Question six

what have you learnt about technologies for the process of constructing this product?

Throughout the making of this product, i have had to learn how to use an imac computer. This was difficult at first as i generally use windows xp. We created our product on imovie. When first starting to use this program, i found it difficult as i had missed a day where our teacher had shown the class how to use it, but after practising with it for a short while, it became easy and straightforward. This proves how easy making a movie at home really is. During using imovie, i have learnt how to import film from the camera to the mac, cut clips, edit clips e.g. adding fades in and out, i have also learnt how to add audio onto the audio lines, which are for music, voice overs and extra sound effects. The imac allowing to audio lines proved very helfull as there was a point when filming that a piece of dialogue from the 'caretaker' wasnt clear, as he weather wasnt the same, we couldn't re-shoot, so we had to re-record the lines spoken outside with the camera and upload it onto the second of the 2 audiolines.Imovie offers several titles for credits, with many different fonts, so when chosing a font for our credits we had a large variety. when picking the type of credits for anatomy we chose, bold red cappital letters that appeared in the centre of the screen. We wanted to keep it simple, so it looked more proffessional as a thriller, also by having the titles appear on the centre of the screen for each allowed the credits and the music to blend very well. The reason for the bold red capitals, was because we thought it appropriate for a thriller, especially ours in perticular as we show blood in ours and red normally symbolises this.

Phoebe Hibbert evaluation: Question five

How did you attract/address your audience?

To attract our target audience we created questionaires and distributed them to people aged 16+ in order to collect information from them. By doing this it gave us the knowledge of what they expect when they see an opening of a thriller. we found out which music they preffered, wether they preffered the main character to remain enigmatic or not, if they preffered the antagonist to be innocent or mentally disturbed and if they preffered the opening to be symbolic, a narrative voice or enigmatic. The information gathered helped alot when making decisions, we now knew what our target audience preffered to see in an opening of a thriller and just had to work on achieving it.

Phoebe Hibbert evaluation: Question four

Who would be the audience for your media product?

We decided from the begining that we wanted to aim our product to target audiences aged 15 and above. After making this decision we created questionaires and handed them out to both male and female who were aged 16+, because of this we were able to tally our results and give the majoirty of our target audeince what they prefered. From our audience research we gathered that most prefered classical music in an opening of a thriller. We had difficulties finding classical music to fit our product, this was because most of the music we wanted had copyrights. we overcame this problem by using original music that a classmember had created.

Phoebe Hibbert evaluation: Question three

What kind of media institution might distrbute your media produt and why?

Our product would be distributed my a mainstream institution. If given a larger budget to work with, a company such as Warner Brothers, who have released thrillers such as A clock work orange would distribute our thriller. Our film Anatomy includes conventions of thriller films, although independent films also use the conventions of thrillers, they use them in a more original way. Such as The tracy fragments , which is distributed by an independent institution.
After conducting our audience research, we were able to come to a final decision as to wether our product would be aimed at a mainstream audience or independent.
















WARNER BROTHERS.

Phoebe Hibbert evaluation: Question two

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

When casting for the role of Mindy our protagonist, we looked for a blonde female aged roughly between eleven and thirteen. The reason being, that she needed to come across to the audience as innocent, vulnerable and a victim to our antagonist Stanley. We achieved this with her sartorial codes; she is in school uniform to show that she is young, and helpless when faced with the antagonist. She is shown as a “good girl”, as she has stayed after school hours for extra curricular work.








When casting for the role of Stanley, we looked for a middle aged male. We did this so that when he faced our protagonist, he would be able to over power her. To show that our antagonist is mentally ill, his sartorial codes were women’s clothes. We purposely used close ups of Stanley where his face was hidden, as we wanted his identity hidden until later on in the opening, we used this technique to leave the audience in suspense.



The shots in the lab show representation of doctors, we did this to hint to the audience that he works in that field or a similar one. Blood is shown on the tiles of the lab; it is left to the audience on how they perceive the situation, it plays on fears.

Phoebe Hibbert evaluation: Question One

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

Our production develops conventions of real Thrillers, but doesn't challenge its conventions. The reason being, that we aimed to appeal to a target audience, so we had a guaranteed audience, rather than trying something original. The actor we used as our main protagonist is the classic blonde, innocent type. This is seen in a lot of thrillers, because the “Blonde” is stereotyped as being the more vulnerable. In our production we used long shots of our protagonist to show isolation, this is a common convention used in thrillers, such as Psycho and Birds, by Alfred Hitchcock. In our opening we establish each character separately to the audience. This is done by showing individual shots of the characters.

The music used hints to the audience that something negative is about to happen, the isolated setting also does this.

Our antagonist, ‘Stanley’, meets conventions of a psychological thriller as he is mentally disturbed. After collecting information from our audience surveys, we saw that nearly half of the people asked preferred to hear classical music in an opening of a thriller. Thrillers such as Panic Room, use this to attract they’re target audience.

Altima Kaisamba's evaluation: Question Seven

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Our preliminary task taught us about the necessity of storyboarding shots in detail. We also learnt the importance of organisation and planning ahead of time. During the preliminary task, we encountered lighting problems, we hadn't used the correct filter setting in the camera. This was a vital lesson to learn and during the filming of our final product we avoided filming inside buildings. We were able to familiarise ourselves with using the camera and the tripod and we also became aware that some of the ideas we wanted to shoot during our final piece would be not be possible. The preliminary definitely put our planing and ideas into perspective.