Task one

Genre: Thriller. Certifification age15 years old. 
Camera angle: Slightly left however frontal view.
Continuity editing: Mid-pace to fast to build up tension at the end, rhythem follows the beat of the music which is essential to the tension of the film itself.
Sound: The sound fades in and out at the appropriate times which adds tension and speeds the motion of the film up.

Mise-en-scene: Lighting, fairy lights symbolise a typical teenage girl, dream catcher symbolises nightmares and the sigma of spiritual presence. Location was at my house in my bedroom shows privacy.
Typography: Font Lucida Handwriting and the size was 22 for the tittles
Iconography: The visual convetions of the genre were the dream catcher in this shot which may not be all that eye catching to the audience at this stage.

Genre: Thriller/ Horror
Camera angle: frontal
Continuity editing: Mid-pace to emphasis the thrill behinde the kidnap, the rhythem follows the shots as the pace adds tension to the short film which is essention to the tension of the film.
Sound: The sound is continuing throughout the music at the beiginning is ere and inticing to the audience, this then fades out into the dialect for the rest of the film.
Mise-en-scene: Lighting is fairly dark to create a subdued ere feel to the film starting in black and white transfering into colour later on. The individual objects show a complex mind for the main character this could also show a split personality which is evident later on in the short film.
Typography: The font is standard and roughly size 22 this makes this stand out to the audience and shows who the main characters are for the titles.
Iconography: The visual convetions of the genre were the different electronic devices which could have been used for a bomb which is shown in the next shot of the film.

5.) how did you attract your target audience?

How did you attract/address you're target audience?

I think we have attracted our target audience by simply finding out what they would like to watch in a 'thriller' film and making it happen.
 We acknowledged what the audience had to say and took on board some of their criticisms, which I think payed of. Some of the few audience we surveyed gave us back some positive feedback when we showed them what we was planning to do with our storyline narrative.

This included some people telling us to change the ending because it seemed almost 'clichéd' we took this on board immediately as we all agreed that this was a fair comment, ultimately we changed the ending ever so slightly so that it wasn't considered predictable at all and the audience could be somewhat surprised about what would happen next.
Overall I think that we should of perhaps asked more people to see what they thought, as I don't think there was enough variety of people, I think if our group took our storyline idea and questionnaire to the streets then the answers would be have more variety.
 Also, as we only stayed in the college the majority of the people we asked where at one end of the target audience age range, meaning that we didn't really ask anyone towards the end of the target audience, which is quite risky seen as though these are part of our target 'niche' audience also.
In conclusion, I think that we certainly did attract the attention of our audience and they seemed to enjoy our ideas and some even where kind enough to offer positive critics to us.
 I think that we could of possibly made our results with more of a range of variety if we asked more of the target audience but it was a learning curve, and something that we will take into consideration for the future.

Who would be the target audience for your media product?

The target audience for our media product would be both males and females from early teens to mid forty's. This is because we believe it has something to offer to a wide variety of people including teenagers and their parents.  The type of audience we think the film will attract will be any race, both genders and a variety of ages from late teens all the way up to people win there mid forty's. The type of social class we would aim our film at is, working class to middle class, but more so working class as it is set in Barnsley in a working class environment and as people making the film we all personally come from working class backgrounds. We thought sticking with our social class roots would ultimately make the film look more realistic.
 To find out about what our audience would think about the film, we questionnaired various students and some tutors around Barnsley College, the questionnaires proved to be a great success and all of the people we surveyed said that they would be interested in viewing our film, as the enjoyed reading the thrilling narrative. We used the questionnaire by taking the few critiques on boards and trying to make the film lest cliché which I think that we eventually did do. We also made a audience profile used as a Facebook profile, which included what the 'niche' audience would be like. The idea of the target audience being so wide I think is clever, the theme of 'stalking' is something that a huge amount of people would be interested in viewing because it isn't something that isn't realistic, people do have issues with 'stalking' and 'mental illness' and also other things like 'obsession', which the target audience seemed to like when we questionnaired them, with many saying that they likes the 'unique' narrative.

3.) what kind of media institute might distribute your media product and why? information to go on powerpoint

What kind of media institution might distribute you're product and why?

Although films made by mainstream industries like Warner Brothers are greatly funded and has a lot of money behind the distribution,

 

Exhibitioning and general budget of the film, it just wouldn't be the type of institution I think you could establish with our physcolical thriller.

 This is because our film is not what you would expect from a 'Hollywood blockbuster' which will have had a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars.

This just isn't realistic and it is something that you just wouldn't associate together. I think the best media institution to distribute our film would be a independent British industry called Coffee films, which has made films that fit with our genre and theme of thriller.

Coffee films don't only make short films they also make documentaries, music videos and so on, all a mixture of dark thrillers and horror, which I think would contrast with 'Don't look behind you' brilliantly. The Coffee films industry has a website that included various projects they have worked on and shows you teasers of them.

I feel that if we used something like Warner, the audience would be extremely disappointed as the expectations of a 'Hollywood blockbuster' would not be met.

I think the chances of some company like Warner even giving our film a glance would be extremely far fetched and virtually impossible, so I think that the film would be distributed by an independent industry such as Coffee films that meet our kind of genre and are more likely to distribute something that goes with the theme of their own work and other films.documenrties and music videos they have made and distributed.

 

We researched various films when we first chose our genre like 'Scream' which focused on the theme stalking and also prom night which focused on the same.

However both films where mainstream and distributed by their large non-independent companies who are greatly funded and can afford to expose their film in the right was to get people to come and view it and spend their money on making sure that the exhibition is on such a huge scale that people will want to come and watch the film, with high expectations.

In conclusion I think that an independent British industry is a lot more realistic and well suited for our film as it can surprise audiences, and be distributed to the 'niche' audience which the company Coffee films already have in mind.

3. What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?

Metrodome Distributions 

I would choose Metrodome distributions to distribute my film as they distributes many genres of film including Thriller which is the genre of my film. Metrodome is a london based distributor and distributes mainstream films, this is perfect for our film as we would have made our films for a mainstream audience. 
This company has distributed films such as Grave encounters 2, a sequel to Grave Encounters in which a group of film students go to the psychiatric hospital in which the patients were torched by one of the physiatrist before he was killed by an escaped patient, the ghost of the patient's attack the students as they did with the film crew in the first film. This film is similar to the one i happened produce as it for a similar audience and is of the same genre as my film. 

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

I used prezi to talk about prepresentaion. (can be edited if need be) 

link to prezi

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

Evaluation
In what ways does you're media product use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our film genre is  a psychosocial thriller, we decided that this would be a good idea because as a group we enjoy watching this genre of films too. The narrative is based on the whole theme of 'stalking' and includes a character that has an unhealthy obsession due to a mental illness. After researching into the genre and watching films such as Scream that uses the theme of 'stalking' our minds where made up that this is what we wanted to use in out film. We established the plot by working together in a group, all coming up with ideas and sharing them with each other until the plot was somewhat of a mixture of all of our ideas.
 The genre we used was thriller and the film is in my opinion quite obviously this genre as it consists of creepy thrilling music, fast paced actions and the feeling of mystery that the audience are left with, asking themselves 'what's going to happen next?' . My personal definition of 'thriller' is something that it is supposed to be scary and leave you in suspense, just without the gore, blood and full frontal violence that is used in horror. Overall I think our film is quite clearly a thriller, and I'm sure after watching it you would also agree due to the sinister music and other codes and conventions such as diegetic sounds like the creak of the shower door and the lighting of the torch flashing through the dark living room.

The camera angles we used consisted of close ups, mids shots, long shots, extreme close ups and others including low angled shots.

 

The continuity is there in my opinion even though some shots jump cut from one to the other, I still feel that overall the film runs smoothly. The pace is quite slow at first then it picks up when Beth runs away from her stalker Liam, this is done to emphasise that it is a thriller and hopefully get viewers connected to emphasise with Beth and show them what to expect from our thriller film 'Don't look behind you'. The sound in the film consists of diegetic noises such as the creaking of the shower door, the  noise of Beth's phone ringing on the bed, and other various noises that go with our thriller theme. There was two different types of music used in our film, one diegetic music from the mobile phone ring tone and the other one the spookily thrilling music that was played whilst Beth ran away from the flashlight in the garden./ The mobile phone music would be diegetic, this is because Beth could hear it aswell as it was coming from inside the actual film, on the other hand Beth could not hear the music been played over the top of the filming so the creepy music would be non-diegetic as it was not coming from inside the actual film it was used and put in in the editing process.

Mise-ene-Scene is used in the film, to show that our film is a thriller. the lighting is quite dull and dismal, showing that there isn't something quite right and giving the viewers the feeling that something is terribly wrong, the props used are the bed, the mobile phone, the dressing gown, the flashlight. etc. Beth clothing consisted of casual clothing including, shorts T-shirt and an oversized denim jacket, to represent her as a typical teenage girl. Also another prop used would be the laptop which Beth is using when she is sitting on her bed, the laptop represents social networking and socialising, again, something that you would associate with a typical teenage girl. The location we used was Ashleigh's house, we wanted to make it as realistic as we possibly could therefore we thought a house would be the best location to film.