Evaluation

How did you attract/address your audience?

By Tiffany Lloyd Hughes

We thought as a group we would easily attract and address our audience with material we know they will like. For example the age for our thriller is aimed for 16 and above. Which is the age of my group members. We thought if we found out what people our age like then it would attract them to our final product. Also we thought if people our age knew out ages then they would probably be interested to see what we have produced. We also attracted and adressed our audience by sticking to the conventions that are expected in a thriller.

Also in we attracted our audience by our bright white font we have used in our thriller.I think our music helped to attracted our audience as I think it kept them watching. Also i think the editing effects kept our product flowing well meaing it is keeping the audience interested.

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

By Tiffany Lloyd Hughes

Our groups media products follow and develop the conventions of our genre, which is thriller. You can tell it is a thriller by the camera shots we have used. Also by the music and editing effects. We think our final product is similar to some real media products. For our final video we used several conventions from the thriller genre. For example the missing posters and ghost effects we have used. Also we have had to research other thrillers to inspire us, we felt it was important to use certain conventions that are similar to the thrillers we researched. Such as specific looking fonts e.g a creepy, bold and noticeable looking font to match our genre.

Who would be the audience for your media product?
By Katie Williams

Our auidence is people who are into thriller/horror, and enjoy getting scared and solving mysterys. Most horror/thriller films are 15 rated, and are aimed at people in their mid teens to any age.Some people love to enjoy high levels of physiological arousal. Research suggests that more men  enjoy scary movies. This might be because men suppost to like scary things and be brave.  Halloween seems to be the prime time for people to watch horror or thriller films, because Halloween gets people in the mood.


How does your media product represent particular social groups?
By Katie williams

Our genre, which is horror/thriller films reprent a variety of different social groups. The social group of gender is specifically looking at the young males,who enjoy feeling scared. The age group is both older and younger groups of people. It's aimed at people who are into thriller/horror films. The target auidence is 15+ becuase that's what most films are rated at. :)



What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
By Tiffany Lloyd Hughes
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During the making of our film we learnt how to use many different types of technology, such as being able to edit our thriller. We also learnt how to use the cameras and tripods correctly. In order to be able to edit correctly and making what we wanted we had to become familar with the technology we had to use. We laernt how to use Serif which is the program we had to edit on. Serif was hard to use and get used to at the start of our work process, but we work very hard to edit our thriller.

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

The kind of institution that would distribute our media product is media like magazine advertisments, advertisment at the side of buses. Television and cinema adverts. Youtube adverts before people listen to music. People on twitter and facebook spreading the word.
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 Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
By Tiffany Lloyd Hughes and Katie Williams.

Looking back at our premilary task, we feel that we could improve by having a better script, and more time to prepare. Since the preliminary we have improved on our camera and editing skills. We are now able to think of better story boards and story lines. We are able to work better as a time, and find mutual time to do the work together. We have improved on our planning and ideas. We have become more serious actors, and taken the project more maturly as young adults. We do think we have improved in many ways since our first task(the prelinmary) and feel that we have captured the full expectation of a thriller. We feel that since our first task we are now able to sit down as a group and share and take on other fresh ideas.