Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Before i began the corse i had no idea on what type of tecnoloigies it took to create a film, obviously i knew that the camera was essential but i had no idea on what other techniques were involoved in the filming and editing process.

When we began the corse we were shown a variety of different shots that should be used when filming, this included establishing shots, 180 degree rule, match on action and shot reverse shot. Being shown how imporantant it was to get the shots right definatly helped me when filiming our preliminary and main task.

Once we had studied a range of shots, we were introduced to our preliminary task which was to film a conversation between two people using the shots we had learnt about in the previous lessons. When we had filmed our preliminary task we were then shown how to use the editing progamme, only the basics as the preliminary task didnt need to be edited outstandingly. I took a backseet in the editing for the preliminary task so i wasnt as confident at using it as Tim who had already had some experience with using the programme.

When the preliminary task was edited it was time to start our main task, this took alot more thought than our preliminary task as this was a much more advanced task. But on the other hand we also found choosing which shots we wanted to use alot easier because it was still fresh in our mind from when we done the preliminary task. It took us numerous attempts to film our preliminary task as we hadnt framed the fooage correctly the first time. So by the time it came to our main task we were alot more confident in using the camera and tripod. This meant that we didnt have to refilm any of our main task, we produced the footage in 3 parts as we didnt have the time to get all the footage in one day. We also had to be carfull at what time we shot some of our footage as some of the items we needed were in use, like the dark room for example. We used footage from all three times we filmed which i was very pleased to see that our work hadnt gone to waste.

We then had to capture the shots but where we had done this before in the preliminary task it was much easier than we thought, it also took us less time than we thought as we were used to using the programme. Then we had to start editing, i took a backseat in the editing for the preliminary task so i thought i would really try to help out in the editing process for the main task, which i did, i found that me and lainey worked well when we done the editing and we managed to get alot of the editing done quite rapidly. We did have to slightly rush our project at the end as we needed to decided what order we wanted the shots in, also the music, and effects. So, i used alot of my free time to get the project finished.

I think i have learnt so much from the hole process of filming and editing, i now feel confident to ba able to edit and film on my own which i think is a real acheivement in itself. I have learnt not to leave work till last minute so i deffinatly think this course has given me a better sence of time managment. I also found it really helpfull working in a group as i learnt to listen to others ideas, which i think worked really well as we all pitched in and im really pleased with our end product. :-)

Question 6: What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

As we had to produce a horror film, we needed to take into acoount how we would attract our audience. We wanted to get a broad range of actors/actresses as we didnt want to limit the amount of people that watched our production. In our production we had a blonde, and brunette which meant that it would attract a number of male veiwers as there is diversity within the casting. If we were to have only used blonde actresses this would have limited the amount of veiwers because not all men/women find blondes attractive. We wanted to build suspence as soon as the production started as it will immediatly make the veiwers want to watch more rather than getting bored. I think we succesfully acheived this due to the girl running away from something, but the veiwers do not know what the girl is running from so this all adds to the supsence through out the production. Also, we set our film in the forest, this means that anything could happen, the audience does not know what is in the forest and therefore this may attract them to the film as they want to find out. On the other hand if our production was set in an abbandoned house we automatically know that there will be something unatural inside the house. This is why i think that the forest is a good setting, by using the forest as the setting i believe will help to draw a range of different veiwers to our production.

Question 4: who would be the audience for your media product?

As we had to create a horror film, the market for our film would be 18 and over. This means that there would be limitations as to when we could advertise our media production. As the market would be 18 and over we would have to be carfull on showing the advertisment, we would have to make sure that it is on the appropreate channel at the appropreate time so that parents and children were not affended in any way. We have done alot of research and found that our majority audience would be male, minority female. Our film had been based on a teenage camping trip, we hope that by doing this it will attract the teenage audience as this type of film is steriotypically veiwed by teenagers. By using a blonde female we hope that it would attract the male audience, we would also like to think this would attract the female audience as they may want to know what happens to the female.

Question 3: what kind of media institution would distribute your media product and why?

As our film is a horror film, we would have to put restrictions on when and where we could distribute it. There are many ways that we could distribute our product through the media. For example;
-magazines, news articles
-Tv advertisment
-bilboards
-social networking site such as facebook, myspace and bebo
We would have to make sure that we used the right kind of advertising for example, for tv adversing we would have to make sure that it was on the right channel at the right time as some of the footage would be unsuitable for young children.
We could realese our production in the cinema and then it would go onto dvd then eventual tv, sky films and box office. When we would release the product would also be imporatant, i think it would be good to realese the product around halloween as this is the time of year that fits well with the horror genre. As we had to create a horror film, the market for our film would be 18 and over. This means that we would not to be able to use any child freindly institutions as our product would not be suitable for this market. As our market is 18 and over we would need to approuch an instituion that has delbt with horror films for the older market. There are a few film distributers that i think would make out film an immediate sucess due to how well known they are. For example, 20th Century fox, Paramount and Warner Bro's are all very well known within the uk so if one of these were to distribute our film I think it would be a sucsess.

Question 2: How does your media product represtn different social groups

Our media product is based on teenagers on a camping trip. There are many ideologies that have been given to teenagers. Most of these ideologies are negative, many people believe that all teenagers do is go out, and indulge in drink, drugs and sex. On the other hand or aswell as this many people beleive that teenagers are lazy, slobish and selfish. These beleifs have obviously been given to teenagers because of the society we live in today. The belifs behind these ideologies are true to some extent and it seems these ideologies have given us teenagers a name. I wanted to express this in our media production. We wanted to conform to the ideologies that are put onto teenagers as these belives are true in many cases. A good example of a typical teenager is from a film called mean girls. This film is based in a high school and it is all about a girl becoming popular. I think this film really highlights what is important ot teenagers and in this film it is drugs and sex. I also think this film is a good exapmle as it really highlights the different social groups of teenagers.

Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products

Typically a horror form would consist of the same elements. Even though there are many different types of horror film such as, gory, supernatural, paranormal, psycological and thriller. All of these horror films usually have the same key elements. These elements consist of a villan or group of villans, and most of all there is allways a victim. The veiwer usually sees the film through the same view as the victim which is why the films are seen as being scary. We used the typicall element that are widly seen in a horror film. We had a killer and a group of victims. We decided to create a mysterious opening. We looked at the opening of shrooms and the blair witch project, in the opening of shrooms we see a girl running away from something, this automatically tells the veiwer that there is something chasing the girl, but the audience does not yet no what it is. In our opening we used the same idea as this by following a girl running with a hand held camera. I think by using a hand held camera it adds to the scary effect as we are seeing what the victim is seeing. This bulids a really mysterious atmosphere. We did not challenge the forms of a real media product as we didnt think that the film would be as effective. This is because if we had no victim or killer the film would not be scary as there is nothing happening to build up suspence for the audience. Suspence is what makes a horror film, with out it i beleive that the film wouldnt come across as scary.