Q: In what way does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real products?
A: Our title sequence has a lot in common with the title sequence of the film SE7EN. This being that it isa montage of shots looking at many different objets which have a relationship with the story line of the film but not giving away too much, keeping the audience in suspense. The reason we used the SE7EN opening idea is because when viewing a short clip of the film and the opening title sequence, as the audience we thought that it was very effective and gave off the same effect we too wanted to give off.
Q:How does your product represent particular social groups?
A:Our product does not quite represent any particular social group as we as little as possible of any conversations. Otherwise the audience would be able to bond with the characters too early on into out film. Instead we reduced the dialogue and increased the suspense! This is to back up the conventions of a Thriller movie. However our detective as an individual is portrayed as brave, seeing as he i going to a crime scene investigation by himself without any backup in that estate which he is not familiar with and still stays calm.
Q:What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
A: The media institution which would distribute our film would be Film4.
Q:Who would be the audience for your product?
A:The audience of our film would be 15 years old and over. This is because the film would not contain any sexual scenes or swaring but would however contain graphical images through use of shots and pictures within the text. These images would be of deformed or defaced individuals and would not be suitable for those under the age of 15.
Q:How did you attract/address your audience?
A:Our results from our survey on survey monkey told us that the majority of people preffered Thriller movies over all of the other genres. They also preferred at least two people to be in the opening of the film, so we took this into account when creating our opening sequence. However we ddn't show the audience both of the actors faces to increase the mystery in the plot.
Throughout the entire title sequence we placed the credits ovr the footage which was playing in the background so that the audience did not get bored. This would also keep their attention on the film. The film was also posted on Youtube and Facebook where it received a fair amount of feedback. This was a good way of getting our film opening out to our target audience as it was Free andour group was on a very low budget.
Q:What have you learnt about technologies from process of constructing this product?
A:Throughout the production of this product I have learnt how to work an HD Camera, turning it on and off, inserting the tape into the camera, using white balance and transfering the rushes from the tape to the computer. We did however encounter problems with the tranfering of the rushes on the 2nd transfer, so in order to over come this we used an alternative camera from home. We also had trouble with Final Cut Pro which wouldn't allow us to use some of our rushes and at one stage became 'Not Responding'. We overcame these problems by using an alternative software, Sony Vegas, in order to edit at home.
Q:Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
A:I have learnt that disasters CAN happen out of nowhre which can set yur plans back a ver long time and although you may have set out an alternative as a back up, alternatives can also go wrong so when planning during the preliminary stages you should also allow yourself a little extra time than you believe you will need in order to make production easier and completed to the deadline. I have also learned that although it is easy to come to an arrangement in planning, it is alot harder to carry it out and can be quite fustrating so patence is required, whether something goes wrong or not. Having a strong, effective team is also essential.
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