Evaluation - Question six - What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation - Question Five - How did you attract/address your audience?

How did you attract/address your audience?

 

 

Throughout our media thriller opening we kept the audiences attenttion buy using some of the typical thriller conventions that typical thriller audiences would look for. For example, we used a MacGuffin and many other thriller conventions. A MacGuffin is seen as an object that is used by the characters as a mystery and all the people in the audience want to know about. We used the MacGuffin right at the beggining of our thriller opening by getting the two characters to talk about it, although they do not tell the audeince exactly what they are talking about. This helps the audience to get an insit into what the MacGuffin could be and to introduce the characters to the audience.

 

Also the use of the point of view shot from the kidnappers allows the audience to captivate what is actually going on and to get into the shoes of the kidnapper(s).

After watching our thriller opening and only seeing the boys talk about something mysterious happening and seeing/watching the boys get kidnapped the audience are goinng to want to see more which will the keep the audience hooked. Finally there is a close up of the MacGuffin, this being the disc and the audeince then get a little insite in to what is goin gon however, it does not give too much away and leaves room for interpretation on the views behalf. This then keeps the audience intouch with the characters and keeps the suspense going. 

Evaluation - Question Four - Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation - Question Three - What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?



Evaluation Question Two - How does your media product present particular social groups?

QUESTION 2: How does your media product present particular social groups?

 

Within our group thriller opening, there are only four characters. However, all four characters are boys, this leaves us very little option as to stereotype some but not all of the boys. For example, we have two villains. They're both wearing masks to cover there faces. We chose to do this to convey how powerful the two masked men are, as they have all the power as they are unknown therefore feared. However, the two other characters are unmasked and known to everyone. As we chose to only follow the stereotypical "powerful man" for just the two villians we therfore chose to portray the other two boys as more weak and dominated by the two kidnappers. This challenges hegemony as the characters do not conform to the typical stereotype of men being dominant as they got kidnapped by men themselves.

 

Our thriller opening consists of typical blue collar crime, as the villians are getting their hands dirty instead of commiting crimes that tend to include sitting behind a computer screen for crimes such as fraud, those types of crimes are known as white collar crimes and they are usually comminted from people from the upperclass who have more sophisticated jobs as they are then able to commit more dangerous crimes. However as our thriller opening includes young teenage boys and kidnapping being the main crime being committed we chose to portray the boys as typical working class teenages who have nothing better to do than get involved with crime and seek a thrill for it.

Although our main characters are teenage boys they do not typically conform to the stereotypical 'trouble maker' throughtout the whole of the opening, however the kidnappers may conform as they are the ones committing the crime which is typical of their age group and social class.

Evaluation Question One - In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media productions?

QUESTION ONE: In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media productions?

 

There are many conventions that are used within a real media production. These can include things such as a MacGuffin, Suspense, a twist, fast pacing, slow pacing, Fem Fatale, Red Herring, Cliff hangers etc.

 

Throughout the making of our film we came up with many ideas to use different types of conventions in our film however felt that using a Cliff Hanger, a MacGuffin and suspense would benefit us most with the type of film we chose. We also chose to include other typical thriller conventions such as a point of view shot(POV), close up shots(CU) and high angle shots(HA).

 

MacGuffin:

A MacGuffin is usaually an object that the Antagonist wish to obtain. The MacGuffin in our opening film is a CD named "File 45-7". We chose to use a MacGuffin for many reasons when making our film. One of the reasons being that it would interlink with the name of our film, this showing continuity throughout the making of our film and secondly we needed an object that the antagonist (kidnappers) would go after & cause chaos. The use of the MacGuffin helped support the idea of our film being a archetypal thriller.

 

Suspence:

Suspense it typically known to be a key convention within the thriller genre and real media productions. When talking about suspense i refer to the idea of the build up of an atmosphere in a film that normally leaves viewers wanting to know more and clinging to the edge of their seats. Throughout our film there is a large build up of suspense. For example, when the two boys are walking into the park and arguing  there is a point of view shot which creates suspense as the viewers are then able to get into the role of the kidnapper. Another example of suspense in our film would be when one of the boys gets kidnapped as the suspense and tensions builds up quickly and is very mysterious and the viewers are very keen to find out what is going on and who is behind the mask.

 

Cliff Hanger:

A cliff hanger is a dramatic or exciting ending to a scene of piece of filming leaving the audience/viewer in suspense and creating tension to make the viewer want to see more. Cliff hangers are usually used at the end of scene in a film as they are more effective towards the audience/viewer. In our thriller there are many cliff hangers, we chose to do this as we feel that it will have a big effect on our audience as they are going to have loads of questions about what is going to happen to the characters in the scene. However the kidnapping scene in our film would have to be the biggest cliff hanger as it for one is right in the middle of our opening and secondly is where the main storyline lies.