Evaluation

Evaluation 

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our media title sequence takes on board the standard layout for the opening title sequences.

• Opening Title 
• Straight cut in to the action 
• Fast cuts and camera angles
• Villains are introduced 
• cuts to new location and the story begins 

we stuck closely to the normal conventions of a thriller but changed certain aspects like explaining the film before we went into the action, we felt this move was better as it doesn't make the audience  feel clueless and gives them a scene of direction, allowing them to follow the story effectively. 

• How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our Spy thriller plays on the audiences perception of people allowing certain characters to produce there own image in the audiences mind, this allow the character to slowly develop through the film allowing the opening scene to also develop slow allowing the audience to build tension and be involved in the film. 

Our government agent does represent a typical government character in the audience perspective this is due to the clothing used and how confidently the character portrays him self. He believes he is the boss and in control this helps the audience dislike the character and feel sympathy for suspect 7. 

The assassin is also represented in a typical way allowing the audience to gauge how they feel, the camera angles and shot types also reinforce the assassin character as the camera comes from his perspective which is very dark and secretive both in the camera and personality this would seam typical to the audience of a assassin character.

Suspect 7 was designed to be a inscure caracter who to the audience is shown to have played into the government agents hands, were as this is not strictly true as the film would slowly show as the plot unrolls. the way he dresses shows that he is smart but doesnt come across as a vip, which would coinside with his job title of secret agent.

 

• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Prezi Presentation

• Who would be the audience for your media product?

I think this film could be shown to a large audience as it would be suitable for everybody aged 12 upwards, i believe this film meets this criteria for a 12 rated film.  We also designed the film around the teenager group as we conducted a survey in to this group before starting the planning:)

The ‘12’ category exists only for video works. No one younger than 12 may rent or buy a ‘12’ rated video work.

Discrimination

Discriminatory language or behaviour must not be endorsed by the work as a whole. Aggressive discriminatory language or behaviour is unlikely to be acceptable unless clearly condemned.

Drugs

Any misuse of drugs must be infrequent and should not be glamorised or give instructional detail.

Horror

Moderate physical and psychological threat may be permitted, provided disturbing sequences are not frequent or sustained.

Imitable behaviour

Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied, or appear pain or harm free.  Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised.

Language

Moderate language is allowed. The use of strong language (for example, ‘fuck’) must be infrequent.

Nudity

Nudity is allowed, but in a sexual context must be brief and discreet.

Sex

Sexual activity may be briefly and discreetly portrayed. Sex references should not go beyond what is suitable for young teenagers. Frequent crude references are unlikely to be acceptable.

Theme

Mature themes are acceptable, but their treatment must be suitable for young teenagers.

Violence

Moderate violence is allowed but should not dwell on detail. There should be no emphasis on injuriesor blood, but occasional gory moments may be permitted if justified by the context. Sexual violence may only be implied or briefly and discreetly indicated, and must have a strong contextual justification.

this was sourced from the British board of film classification.

• How did you attract/address your audience?• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

This is the dialogue listed in the extranormal clip

Well first off we sent out a surrvey to look into what type of films our target audience were interested in and what sort of plot they liked most  , this proved valuable in the planning stage, as our storyboard evolved around our research. this research lead us towards a spy based thriller which the plot revolved aound the government and a secret agent project which had gone wrong, this we felt was the best option to creat the plot around.. in regard to new tecnologies i have learnt a lot about camera equipment and sound recording equipment, during our re shoot i recoreded all the audio using a rode blimp mic which gave increadable clarity and direction we used this as the sound quality from the canon camera was not at a good enought quality to mack the full HD footage.i have also gained a lot of new skills in editing using both adobe premiare pro and sony vagas, as before i had very basic skills in these programs. looking back at the perlimainary task i feel the whole group has learnt new skills i especially feel i have gained vauable knolage in the ability to record both sound and visual content, i think this progression of the team is noticeable in the clip we produced looking back at our preliminary task.

Media Evaluation
by: ajw26