Evaluation

Question 1

In what ways does your media project use, develop or challenge forms of conventions of real media products?
As I have previously mentioned on my blog the codes and conventions of a thriller are;-Crime at the core of the narrative (often Murder) 
-A complex narrative structure, with false paths/clues/resolutions
-A narrative pattern of establishing enigmas which the viewer expects to be resolved
-Protagonist who is systematically, dis empowered and drawn into a complex web of intrigue by an antagonist. 
-Extraordinary events happening in an ordinary situation.
-Themes of identity
-Themes of mirroring
-Themes of Voyeurism
-Protagonist with a 'flaw' which is exploited by the antagonist.
-Titles often reflect an aspect of the protagonist/antagonist psychological state.
-There is often a scene near the end of the film in which the protagonist is in peril.-Mise en scene which echoes the protaganist plight.
When creating our theiller, we tried to consider as many codes and convetions as possible.Aspects of our film can be compared to real thriller films.
This is a screen grab from a clip of our film and a well know film; "Harry Brown"



This is a scene in Harry Brown where Harry has tied up a member of the gang that killed his friend; this is to warn the others in the gang of what he is capable of doing. These characters are both the protaganists of the story.



after being kidnapped

Before being kidnapped

Here we show mirroring of shots. I think it effectively shows how her mood has changed after she has been taken.

music;

The music we used was quite successful at creating the tension. When looking for the music to go with our thriller, we looked for a piece that was calm at the beginning then, gets up-beat.

At the beginning of the film the footage is quite calm and normal, so for this we had slow chimes. this sounds like nice music, but too nice to know that everything is okay, and the audience should start to get the suspicion that something might happen. The as the action starts happening in the film (the burning of the photo) the music kicks in and gets more up-beat. Finally, towards the end the music slowly fades and leaves us with the sound of the creaky door opening. I think the music fits in with the codes and conventions of the thriller as it slowly builds the suspence for the main event. 

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

Our Thriller opening contains only teenage characters. This is because we were limited to actors that were willing to participate in our film. They play the role of typical individuals of this age group, such as walking through a park with their partner and goin to parties; this could be seen as a stereotype but it isn't negative as the action in the film aren't negative in any way.
We only had two main characters and they consisted of one male and one female, this balanced the gender within the film. However, the male role in our film is quite psychotic and obessive and  could be seen as being sexist as the female role is normal. 
 Both individuals are obviously straight as it shows them in a realtionship.
When choosing our actors we didn't really consider using individuals from diiferent ethnic backgrounds, therefore both our actors are white british.

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

After some research into the filming industry, I found numerous companies that could potentially distribute our thriller. I then researched each of the companies further, to see whether they would be the best choice of distributor.

Universal Studios is a well-known and well respected company that regularly distributes films of a high quality. Universal Studios began to distrubute thriller/horror films in 1931, with 'Dracula' and 'Frankenstein'. Other recent films include 'Drag Me To Hell' and 'The Fourth Kind'. I think this company would be a great choice of distributor as they have a high reputation. Additionally, the company produce a wide variety of films with ranging budgets. Therefore, our thrilller would be suitable for their company. However, as the company is so well recognised, there would be a lot of comptetion for funding from the company.

Dinension is another film company that could distribute out thriller as it

has distributed other films that are of a similar genre, such as the 'Scream' series, and the 'Scary Movie' series.

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation would be an obvious choice as they are probably the most well-known film company in the world, however, they do not tend to distibute low budget films and is therefore quite out of our league as our film would have a low budget therefore the film company will not be interested in buying our film.

A more suitable company to distribute our film would be would be Metrodome. I think this company would be siutable as they distribute low budget films such as "Shifty"

 

Methods that we could use in the distribution of our film are avertising such as creating a trailer, or posters and banners that could be shown on bilboadrs, bus stops, buses, or on the internet.

Me and Hannah created a poster that could possibly be used for the distributioof our film.