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

Our media product is a thriller film which use conventions of existing films by having the camera look like he is being followed and being seen on CCTV. This uses is a bit similar to films like in firewall where we follow the character and the slow motion of the character being shot is similar to face off. Our media product also challenges conventions because it’s quite different to the usual thriller because it has got a bit of action in it as well. I think we challenged it well because it is different to any typical thriller. It makes you think it’s a thriller background but partly action half way through.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

It represents particular groups like young people who are from rich families because that is who are character is and it shows it by what he wears when he is being followed. It shows that he is being put in danger by someone following him. It shows he is rich by having photos of his dad in a suit as a picture on the wall. It also shows that the killer is trying to get at the man in the picture by killing a young man. this plot shows that the killer is after the man for some reason that is revealed further in the film.

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

Our media product might be distributed by an independent film company rather than a Hollywood company because our film is low budget and doesn’t look like a Hollywood film and if it did it would need lots of money invested by outsiders.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our product is aimed at young men aged between 15 and 30 years old. We aimed it at this age because young men are into watching thriller films that have a twist round every corner.

How did you attract/address your audience?

We attracted the audience by having the opening film suspenseful and you want to keep watching because you want to know why he was killed and who killed him.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

In the beginning of this project I didn’t know much about the editing programme. I only knew how to cut the shots down. I knew that is was going to be a challenge but with help from my partners we managed to struggle through it because we were not familiar with the shots we used and couldn’t describe them. We also struggled to find suspense places to film and when we found a place it was raining and we didn’t want that to happen. Now the product is finished I thought we done well for not knowing much about editing. We are proud of our product because I learnt how to use a programme now with ease and I think if we had to make a new film we would make it look better and plan our plot better including every shot.