Question Seven Evaluation

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

I feel that I have progressed a huge amount from when I started media and recording my Prelimary task compared to now. For example, the differing amount of camera angles that I am able to identify and use, compared to the simple ones that I was using at first, they were extremely basic and shaky. But now I am able to use a range of close-ups and I am aware more of how we can move from shot to shot effectively and I also included things such a mid-shots, long-shots and pans. These shots may still include a small amount of shakiness but it is of very little quantity and is barely noticeable. The lighting was where my group and I struggled when it came to our filming process and it even lead to us having to re-shoot the whole of our opening titles again with brighter lighting. But because of this we then learned how to edit the lighting with Imovie and this allowed us the set the tension within the scene that we preferred to have. The music that we had in my prelimary task didn't really suit the film itself and was only actually played at the beginning of it. Whereas if you compare it to the soundtrack that I used in my opening titles you can see a huge difference, the music matches the film perfectly and sets the right amount of tension at the right times. Within my prelimary task, we used next to none of the transitions that were provided for us, which made my prelimary task look of poor quality, and so were the actual titles of it, we just used the ones that were provided for us. Whereas if you compare that to my opening titles and transitions of my film there is a huge contract. The transitions are all well timed and in the right places at the right time so that my film does not look jumpy and the opening titles are all of matching font and suit the genre of the film incredibly.

Question Six Evaluation

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I think the main thing that we have learnt and possibly struggled with in our filming process would be the editing and getting our clips to the right speed and length by either shortening them or speeding them up or slowing them down. We also learnt how to work Sony cameras to record our film, but we had to do a re-shoot of our filming process due to the fact that the lighting was bad on our first attempt, so we also learnt how to use brighter lighting but then also how to edit the lighting to be darker on Imovie on the Macbooks. For the sound in our opening titles we use non-diagetic music, but we also included some diagetic sounds of our male characters speaking. We also had to silence one of our clips because we included swearing and we thought it'd be more effective if we had it silenced but it still managed to show the characters rage. The main transitions that we used within our editing process are fade out clips, the most effective time that we did this was at the end of our opening titles, where it has the actual title of our film. Because our film is called His Lady In Red, we had most of the font in black other than for the word Red. We then had the background of the Title to fade to black but left the word Red there to emphasize it.

Question Five Evaluation

How did you attract/address your audience?

I believe we have attracted our audience in various different ways, for example we have used the sense of curiosity straight from the start of our film. Because of the way normal films start with the victim and not the killer, this adds confused to the viewers. We have the viewers questioning: why is he doing this? What is he going to do next? We used the idea of physical violence on our main character at the end of our opening to show that he is mentally unstable, this could cause the audience to sympathise the character and even perhaps like him, due to the fact they're questioning why he feels the need to hurt himself and why he is alone in a room. We used non-diagetic music, to give our film more of a creepy tone, to add tension for our viewers and also dark lighting and disturbing images to set the scene more. We have overall made our film idea quite in depth and complicated and I think this will make our film highly attractive to our audiences. 

Question Four Evaluation

Who would be the audience for your media product?

I think that the audience range for our media product would be 18-40. The reasoning of this is firstly because decided that we would age classify our film for years 18+ because of the fact that we have taken the risk of adding disturbing content, for example the images that we used to we thought it would best suit this age range. We decided that we would have more of a storyline to our film rather than lots of "hard hitting" action. We believe that our film may have the chance of attracting more to males than females due to the fact that because the male is the superior within the film, it may offend some women. 

Question Three Evaluation

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

The institution that i feel would be best for my film would be Cipher Films and Limelight. I think this because I believe that because of the films that they have contributed with in the past for example Kidulthood and Adulthood, it shows the gritty types of films that they would be best involved with and this would do my film justice, I also thought these because they were both highly popular and successful in the British Film Industry. I think the distribution company that I would like my film to be joined up with is Pathe Distribution, because this also distributed many successful films.

Question Two Evaluation

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We represented particular social groups by firstly focusing on the popular genre of thriller films. We used the male character as the lead role to represent masculinity and the obsession with women through the colour of red. This adds to the idea of the male character having mental health issues. We reinforced this idea by the way we'd provided props such as the folder that he uses, we used scribbles such as "sins" and stating the seven deadly sins, so show that he feels that he is doing wrong but can't control it.We also used a notice board full of a girls schedule with also contributes to this idea, and the fact that he was on the internet looking at disturbing images, this makes him voyeuristic. 

 Because we have used a male we have clearly shown who will have the power within the scenes. We also used the main character to be young, this is because it will represent youth and attract a younger audience. We segregated our main character to just one bed room, this reinforces the idea of mental issues, to show that he isolates himself. It also gives the viewer more of an opportunity to make a judgement on the character.

Question One Evaluation

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

The existing media conventions that we have used for our thriller two minute film opening are the typical camera angles. The camera angles that we have used are close ups and then we have also used point of view camera angles to show a closer meaning to what our character is actually looking at and his interests. We have also used typical titles, with the font cracked, which provides the thrilling theme through-out the opening and the colouring of red and black which conotates the feeling of death and blood. We also used the colour red because it is a psychopathic colour and is the colour that is typically linked to a killer. We also used dark settings, by editing the lighting of our filming because we believe that this will captivate our audience. We have used the typical transitions such as cross dissolve and fade outs and used music that we found via youtube, which sets the scene with a creepy tone. All of these things that we have used are typically provided within other thriller films. 

We used influences such as One Hour Photo, Seven and Red Road for our opening titles because these all suited the aspects within our film, such as the opening titles for Seven used murder and showed his victims within a book. We got one of our main ideas from here and this is where our film idea progressed. We also used the idea of the male character, this shows that we are tending to 'stick to what we know', whereas we could have developed this idea by changing the gender of the character to a female, which is what red road is based on.We used One Hour Photo as inspiration, but developed it in the way that, in One hour Photo the male character uses photographs to follow his 'victims' whereas, in our film we used the idea of a laptop. This shows the development of technology and we used this to our advantage to be able to connect to our audience better.

The way we developed our film idea from other thriller films is by the way we decided to focus on our killer straight away, this allows the audience to gain an understanding about the stalker and begin to empathise him rather than empathising the victims. We also developed it because we only see the male character in his own living environment, this allows us to gain a deeper meaning for him but also shows what he does behind closed door, such as gaining an unlimited access to watching people via the internet. We also see instantly that our main character is a young male character, whereas people normally associate stalkers with old, perverted men.