Twentith blog- Evaluation questions

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our opening film is similar to Prom Night, as it is what we based our opening on. In Prom night it has allot more scenes and it uses better shots of the Characters. Also it has a bit more dialogue and action. Whereas we had very little dialogue and not allot of action, it was more reactions we had that running and fighting, our characters screamed more and showed more reactions. The storyline was very similar as we had a murderer killing the main characters family to try and get to her. In our opening we had the murderer killing the main characters friends to try and get to her.

2.How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our media product represents the teenage social group as it has teenagers in it, it shows typical teens in a horrible scenario. It shows that any teenager could end in this position even though it is very far fetched but possible. The characters use modern language, one of them swears which is common language of some teenagers, and they use some colloquial language for slang words.

3.What kind of media institution might distribute your media project and why?
I think if anyone would distribute our opening film it would be a very small local distributor, this is because we don't have much of a budget and it isn't a high quality of filming and editing. A small company would most probably put our film opening on the Internet as it is cheap and not many people if any would buy it to want to produce it.

4.Who would be the audience for your media product?
Our audience for our opening film would be teenagers and young adults. People varied from the ages of 12 to 20. I feel if older people saw it they wouldn't appreciate it as much as the other younger viewers would.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?
We used a questionnaire to help us to know what to put in our opening film, this would attract them to see it because it has some of what they wanted to see in it. We also told people that we were filming it and who would be in it, our actors are good and some take drama so they can act really well, while other actors like Grace and I don't do drama so our acting skills aren't all that good.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Personally i have learnt that the technology part of the film opening process is difficult. The editing is quite complex and the camera angles in filming take a while to get right. The blogger this year are easier to use that the PowerPoint's as we can update it and everyone can see it so we know what everyone else is doing too.

7.Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression of it to the full product?
Honestly i think that our preliminary task was allot better than our main one, the filming and editing had problems and it doesn't really flow well. But we have learned allot in the evaluation to do it, we have put allot more information in it and more technical information but as i said, the end product is not as good as the Preliminary task.