Evaluation on 'I can see you'

Question 1: In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms of conventions of real media products? 

Question two: How does your media product represent particular social groups? (Part One)

Question two: How does your media product represent particular social groups? (Part Two) 

Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media project and why?

For this answer I voice recorded myself answering this question. I have also provided a script beneath the voice recording.

Script:

When Making the production company logo I thought to make it similar to the credits that Georgina had produced; I done this by using the same colour scheme and similar text; in my opinion I thought to do this so that the audience would recognise and have a sense of familiarity in the film;

 I thought to add a slight effect to the production company logo to make it more interesting as the colour scheme is black and white. As a group we came up with the idea of calling our production company GGD productions simply because the members of our group are named ‘Gianni, Georgina and D’mee’.

A production company is the company responsible for how the type of media is developed and produced physically such as a film or television programme. The production company may also be responsible for rising funding for the production itself.

A distributer is a person or company that you can rely on to publicise your film to make it popular amounts particular audiences, for my type of opening sequence Miramax films would be the perfect distributer as they have distributed films such as Kill Bill and Pulp fiction which are successful thriller type films which are influences for our opening sequence.

The money for creating a film such as mine could come from loans that my group and I would take out, the national lottery or Government grants that the UK film council offer to fund for British films under certain circumstances.

Various people are named within opening sequences; this is to inform the audience took part in the film. Job titles such as director, actor, producer and editor are generally put in the film, the reasons for this being is to allow the audience to recognise names for other upcoming films if the film is successful.

 As a group we have reflected this within our opening sequence; we have done this by putting the production logo at the start of the opening sequence, when the filming has finished we have shown the directors, producers and lastly the actors; most film makers do this, to firstly give credit to the directors, the producers and so on

Our opening sequence is similar institutionally to the film Kill Bill Volume 2. Because our opening is diverse from most romantic-thriller films we do not have a lot of similar films to compare to, apart from Kill Bill. The film Kill Bill is based on the main character getting revenge on the antagonist character,

 She does this by using stalker like uses such as leaving Bill voicemail messages indicting that she will in fact kill him. This film has influenced us mainly because the main character is a female who goes out of her way to stalk and find her victims. In comparison to our opening sequence our main female character stalks her victim which is not portrayed in most stalker roles as the typical stereotype for this role is an aggressive, creepy male character.

 Therefore the main character in Kill Bill does in fact relate to our main character in our opening sequence.

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product? (Part One)

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product? (Part Two) 

   

Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience (Part One)

Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience (Part Two)

This 'Youtube' clips shows annotations that I had made to show how the opening sequence compares to other opening sequences and how I have attracted the target audience.

Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies technologies from the process from of constructing this product?

For this answer I videoed myself answering this question. I have also provided guidelines beneath the voiceover which I used when recording script below, so that I could elaborate on them when filming.

Script:

·         In the following I will be answering ‘What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product’

·         We used the Mac computers which firstly seemed highly difficult and complex.

·         We soon got the hang of the Mac computers when using fireworks adobe logo , after effects for the logo, final cut to edit our opening sequence, fades, add sounds increased our editing skills.

·         We used a camera which our college provided for us, which was simple to use, we also used a tripod

·         The main key decisions we made as a group about the technology used within the pre production and post production were to: video ourselves interviewing people that enjoy watching thriller films to get a feel on what they would expect in a thriller film.

·         The decisions were made to show that we are using a different technique of evidence that we have asked people. 

Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the project?

  

Changes that we have made within our opening scene