Evaluation

Evaluation 

I feel that our opening sequence is a way of developing the thriller genre and it's conventions by merging conventions seen in films in the crime genre and those form thrillers to help expand the audience by trying to take what makes films similar to this - like Se7en - and implementing those ideas into our product. To make this relevant to our target audience we took the results from our questionnaire and used them to influence our ideas when coming up with the plot for our film. An example of this is how we adopted the idea of a crime-thriller instead of an action-thriller or slasher type movie as it not only appealed to our target audience much more, but was easier for us to execute with the tools we had to use. Our opening sequence in some senses conforms to the conventions of thrillers as it helps build up suspense in order to keep viewers interested whilst also giving them a glimpse of what our antagonist is capable of, whilst including basic things such as opening credits for important roles in production and the distribution company as well as the title of the film itself.

Our media product doesn't really focus on any particular social groups, but the demographic we targeted it at was teenagers to middle aged working class people, as they're the most likely to be able to relate to films set in urban areas, and our cast is made up of teens. Our film doesn't feature any disabled people, elderly or young, so it can't portray them in a positive or negative light.

For distribution, we chose to use Miramax as they've had previous successes in the thriller genre. They're also known to release a lot of independent films in comparison to other studios who may see them as a high risk and low guarantee of making profit. Our film would be released in cinemas first and then on dvd as this would help it get more exposure and notoriety if it did well at the box offices, as well as help it produce revenue long after it's release in cinemas.

From constructing this product I leaned a lot about how to use more expensive film cameras as opposed to smaller, lower quality camcorders which we had to use for our preliminary task. This gave me an insight into how films with biger budgets managed to be created at such a high quality and really made me appreciate how long a feature film can really take to plan, and then actually create - We spent weeks planning, filming and editing for a 3 minute clip. I also learned a lot about how to use Adobe Premiere Pro to the best of my ability whilst finding out about new features. In the past i had only used Sony Vegas Pro, which is functionally similar, but operates in a different way, so creating this product has given me  a broader understanding of editing software and the tools needed to create high quality media.

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