Evaluation Question 7

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

Evaluation Question 6

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Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Question 3

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Evaluation Question 2

How does your media products present particular social groups?

Evaluation Question 1

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

Audience Feedback

Once everyone had seen the film, I asked them what they thought of it and here is the feedback that was given:

Positive
There were a lot of positive feedback given about the from which I thought was really good. For example, I was told that the story line was very easy to follow. I thought that this was a big achievement made as sometimes it can be hard to follow a story line when watching a film for the first time. Another positive thing that the audience picked up on was the certain camera shots, especially the shot when the camera is focused on'Maris's' eyes and then fades into a flashback. The viewers said that they liked this as it almost gives them the thought of literally going into her mind to see what she is thinking about. They also mentioned that the flashback helped a lot with the story line as it tells you why Maria is doing what she is doing. Without this scene, it would be very confusing. The story line itself was also brought up in a very positive way. This is because these types of situations can be very common among young people and in some situations, girls can become a little bit psychopathic but do not usually go to these types of extremes. This is why it was mentioned as a good theme for a thriller film.

Negative
Although a lot of positive feedback was given, there was also some negative feedback given about the film. The first bit of negative feedback given was on the shot of when 'Laura' is walking out of her house and down the road. In the scene before Laura walks out of her home on the phone, Laura calls Carl. This leaves the viewers thinking that Maria has called Laura when she actually hasn't. Another thing that was wrong with this part of the film is when Laura is being filmed from the car. This clip only lasts around 2 or 3 seconds and is of poor quality. This is because when it was filmed, it was filmed free hand. However, this clip had to be put in the film as we would not have had another opportunity to from it again with the same car. This is because is was a teachers car and the teacher was very busy. There was also a negative point brought up about the kidnapping at the end. It was said that there should have been another shot of the kidnapping from a higher camera angle to get a better shot of the kidnapping and to also represent the vulnerability of  Laura.

Screening

 Once we had finished filming and editing our thriller, I was desperate to show my friends. I did this by playing it on a big screen in the classroom and gathering my friends together to watch it. Before I showed my thriller opening to everyone, I explained to them what the storyline was and why we made the film in the first place. I told them how it was a project for media studies and that we had been studying the thriller genre which is why we made a thriller film.

Completed Thriller

Analysis of Rough Cut

When filming, we were advised to create a rough cut of our film before making the final piece. This was so that we could spot any mistakes that had been made and improve on this when we made the final film. We were also able to add on this by added certain effects.

We were able to share the rough cut with other people and were able to get their feedback on it. Their feedback would help us when making the final piece as they pointed us in the right direction to make the film better. As we were filming we were focusing on the more important aspects so by showing other people, they were able to spot the mistakes on the basic things.

The rough cut of our thriller was the whole film. We saw from this that there was many things that needed to be changed and added. For example there needed to be music added and some clips needed to be lengthened or shortened.

However, there were some advantages from this that we did not have to change such as certain camera shots. I also think that all of the scenes link with one another and there is no confusion or jumps in time that re too big when watching it.

Montage

A montage can be two things. The first type of montage is when the viewer interprets an emotion on someones face by knowing what they are looking at. The person on the screen may have the same face on but with different surroundings, the viewer is going to think that the emotion of this person is different.
The other type of montage is when a long period of time is shown in a few minute son the screen. An example of this would be in the "Rocky" films. This type of montage is famous in the rocky films when he is training. At the start of the montage Rocky is very unfit but at the end of the montage, which shows him training over a long period of time, Rocky is very fit and is ready for the fight that is coming up.