Evaluation

In what ways does your product use, develop, or challenge conventions of a thriller:
Earlier, I wrote in conventions of a thriller that extra-ordinary events happen to ordinary people. Well, the victim is the ordinary person, but being stalked is an extra-ordinary event. This shows conventions of a thriller.
We did not challenge the conventions of a thriller because if we did, then it wouldn't be a thriller. Also, it made it slightly easier to make in general.

How does your media product represent particular social groups:
Our thriller is targeted to teenagers. This is because both me and Katie are in this group and know what would and wouldn't interest us.
Also, because there was only two of us, we could not represent any other social groups such as religions and other generations of people.

What kind of institution might distribute your media production and why:

Studying AS media studies, we have studied some groups of distributors such as Film4 and BBC (British Broadcasting Company). Both of these specialise in real issues and i feel that mine and Katie's work would class as a real issue.
I would also like to put it onto a website such as YouTube. This is because i used other peoples work from previous years to try and help me with ideas, and i would like/hope that people will look at my work in the future and get ideas from it.

Who would be the audience for your media product:
Our target audience was 15 and above. This is because any younger then that and we feel it would be slightly disturbing for them to watch. However, i feel anybody over the age of 30 would not like the issues that our thriller is about because they may feel that they cannot relate to it, whereas teenagers/young adults can.

How did you attract/address your audience:
We attracted our audience by using modern actors/actresses and the storyline we used was relatively modern.
The music we used was Good because it was jumpy. It continuously told the audience that something was going to happen. We felt this was good as it may keep the audience watching.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product:
Technology such as the iMacs were slightly difficult to get used to, but were good when used often.Editing was one of the harder parts of the thriller. We put a lot more transitions, titles and editing effects in than our preliminary exercise which made it harder. The only technological problem we encountered was when we were using the iMacs to edit. We filmed two scenes again in order to make it perfect, when we went to edit them, they would not letterbox like the other scenes we had recorded. After some time we both got rather stressed and decided to leave it for the day before we damaged the computer! We came back the next day and it worked straight away. We were frustrated but at the same time, incredibly relieved.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the product:
I feel me and Katie have improved rapidly since our preliminary exercise. From the acting down to the editing everything was tonnes better.We also focused on the task set and got on with it, but we did enjoy it at the same time. I am extremely proud at my partner and myself for getting through it on time, and doing a good job as well.
I feel that the thriller came natural to us, the editing was slightly harder, but overall, this project has been a success.