The beginning sequence of our thriller has the typical conventions of a thriller film. It consists of many suspensful and close up shots of our characters anxiously awaiting for an envelope. We then have a soundtrack of heavy rock music which then changes to mysterious music playing in the background which adds to the suspense of the opening. We chose this type of music as this is what is expected from our audience as we foun out from our questionaire. Our opening was inspired by many other thriller openings which I have stated before in my research page. In our sequence we feature many shots of two of the main characters faces and pictures of them. This adds to the mystery of the film and is a key moment as they are communicating through there eyes. This also keeps the audience guessing as to who these people are and why they keep appearing. We did this because through research we found out that our audience expect to see m expect to see mystery in a thriller.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our target audience for our film would be teenagers and young people in there twenties as many of the characters are played by young, new, fresh faced actors/actresses. It is only rated a 12 as we are trying to appeal to teenagers from the age 12 and upwards but through research we found out that mostly all ages enjoy watching thrillers so we expect to people of all ages to watch our film.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Our product is aimed at becoming a mainstream film. Therefore we would like it to be shown in mainstream cinemas for example odeon. We think this is the best idea so our film gets to become more exposed and therefore our film becomes more profitable.
Who would be the audience for your media product.
By the evidence from our questionaires and bar charts we have seen that it is mostly males that go to see thriller films all ages. Also we have seen that seemed to be more attracted to films that are suspenseful and involve mystery and use of modern technology
How did you attract/address your audience?
We provided 20 people both male and female with questionaires to fill so we would know what conventions they expect to see in a thriller film. We found out that it was mostly suspense and murder so we decided to base our film around these features.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
Many techniques were used and different equipment was used throughout the production of our film. For example the camcorder was put on a tripod to film most of our scenes. I have never before used a tripod for the camera but I found it very useful as it stopped the camera from shacking and helped to keep it still for the serious scenes. All our footage was transfered onto final cut pro which was useful as this helped us add titles and music and put our scenes in the right place. We also used live type to transfer all our text onto our film. All of this helped me learn how to edit.
Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I learnt how to use software for editing and how to transfer music and writing to our film. We wanted to create something that was fun to watch and entertaining. We achieved this by experimenting with different techniques and software to make it presentable. For example we used many different shot types and editing techniques to make it look more proffessional. For our music we tried to create something that had a mysterious feel to it and that built up tension. We did not want something that was slow as it would sound boring and make the audience lose interest and the film so we chose something that was fast and pacey.
