Preparation for evaluation

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• Main characters are male.
• Ordinary people drawn into danger by accident.
• Identity of killer is known.
• [Violent confrontations].
• Set in exotic settings.
• Heroes are accustomed to danger.
• Retardation (concealment of identity).
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
• The main social group is teenage boys aged 17/18.
• Boy racers.
• Care-free.
• The other social group is adults aged between 25 – 28.
• Emotional.
• Car.
• Costumes.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
• Sony/20th Century Fox → reach a big audience.
• Certificate 15 (relates to what would happen in the rest of the film).
• DVD.
• Sky Box Office.
• Mainstream TV launch.
• Where to advertise.
• ‘Above the line’ advertising → trailers, posters, full page adverts in magazines & billboards.
• ‘Below the line’ → interview with cast member.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
• 16 -29.
• Demographic groups.
• Lifestyle.
• Already detailed on blog.
How did you attract/address your audience?
• Ages of the characters.
• Gender of the main characters.
• Sub-genre.
• Questionnaire.
• Showing film.
• Adjusting the film.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
• iDVD.
• Garageband.
• DV camera.
• Blogger.
• iMovie.
• Internet research.
• You can fit quite a lot into 2 minutes but not always as much as you would like to.
• Connecting camera to iMovie.
• Blog - embedding clips from YouTube.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
• The bigger the cast the more difficult it is to organise a day when you can get everyone together.
• Moving shots are very difficult to film with a hand-held camera if you want them to be steady.
• Filming outside is quite temperamental with the weather.
• The bigger the cast is, the more out-takes you end up with, the funnier the filming is & the harder it is to control the cast.