1. Evaluation Question 1:
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
2. Sound/Music
This is a common convention used to create
various
emotional effects towards the audience. We also
used the convention by adding
non digetic sinister music at
fast pace at the start to
create an sinister effect, with this the protagonists
life is shown representing an overall image of it.
3. Camera Angles/ Camera Shots
Camera Angle: There’s one camera angle we used
which is high angle to show the protagonists friend
dead: this creates an effect of a vulnerable person and
powerless. Which a dead person actually is.
Camera Shots: Long -shot has also been used
when the protagonist leaves their house shows
you where they live. (Gives you an idea about
their living environment.)
Camera Shots: We used different shots according to matching scenes where it
creates the effect we wanted.
One of them is close up shot which shows prominent detail & facial expression of
a character as a means of creating intimacy and audience engagement with the
thoughts and emotions of the character.
In our product we show a dead person, a crying person & hands full of blood.
The close up shot has been also used in “Black Swan”, to
create a striking effect of the character. This is something
we also did in our product.
4. Characters:
You always have a protagonist who is deeply
affected by something and at first is
lost, unsure of what's happening. Plus they
often have other people with them i.e.
parent , friend, family who are also involved
in the same situation.
In our media product we used this convention and
decided that our protagonist will have 2 characters along
with themselves : A close friend who dies and a mother
who is injudicious making the protagonists life more
rough than it already is from losing a friend.
5. Typical Plot:
Nearly in all psychological thrillers you have similar plots which is: either
the protagonist is haunted/ being followed by something or they see
someone dead, additionally no one around them wants to believe
it, which possible makes them depressed because of that they’re going
mad themselves. A lot of the times it’s to do with supernatural.
In our media product we decided to use both kind of plots , so the
protagonist has lost someone and starts seeing this dead person and feels
as if they’re haunted. Along with it the protagonist have a mother who
smokes and is an alcoholic , behaves careless towards her, is negligent to
her. This adds to the part of the plot where no one understands or
believes the protagonists issue.
This is similar to the plot in “the invisible”
where it also has to do with someone’s
death of a teenager.
6. EVALUATION QUESTION 2:
How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
Age: In our product the teenager girl is shown to be emotional, seems to
have a though life. This is a stereotypical factor we used about teenagers
being emotional and seeing life as hard, however we made the protagonist
who is one of the teenagers life to be shown truly hard.
The female adult who is the mum and is shown to be in 30’s is
represented of a complete opposite from stereotypical adult . A
stereotypical adult is known as: serious, concerned over children however
the adult in our product is shown to be unconcerned over their child & more
self centred.
In our product the main group represented a teenager girls & one female
adult:
7. Age:
In our product the teenager girl is shown to be
emotional, seems to have a though life. This is a
stereotypical factor we used about teenagers being
emotional and seeing life as hard, however we made the
protagonist who is one of the teenagers life to be shown
truly hard.
The female adult who is the mum and is shown to be
in 30’s is represented of a complete opposite from
stereotypical adult . A stereotypical adult is known as:
serious, concerned over children however the adult in
our product is shown to be unconcerned over their child
& more self centred.
8. Gender:
All three characters are females however not all three of them are represented
as stereotypical females.
The protagonist is shown to have some stereotypical female characteristics
as she is shown to be emotional due to her friends death. Also as she is
taking a laundry basket to a laundrette shows some domestic work.
However, the mother seems to be not as stereotype due to the fact she
seems self-centred, smokes & drinks. These are factors which are usually
not expecting from a female, instead from a male. This is because
smoking & drinking signify violence, something unusual for women.
Th
9. Question 5: How did you attract/ address your audience?
We attracted the audience in several different ways which are age, gender
and the & plot.
Age: We used teenagers as the character group as a lot of psychological
thrillers have teenagers as characters e.g. “the butterfly affect” , plus having
characters of the same age as the audience makes it more interesting &
easier for the audience to understand what’s happening.
Plot/ Storyline: The plot attracts the audience because looking at it in overall
we have used teenagers , factors as relationships with different people &
lifestyle. As we also have teenagers as our target audience these factors
are common to teenagers making it more interesting towards teenagers.
Gender: We decided to use a girl because female’s are
often represented to be innocent and vulnerable, and
having such person as the “victim” in the psychological
thriller makes it more striking.
11. EVALUATION QUESTION 7:
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression
from it to the full product?
Camera Angle & Tripod: We found out that using a Film Content: In both productions we had good props
tripod makes it less wobbly making it easier to focus according to the mis en scene, but this time we used all the
onto what's happening. props as last time not all props were used which could have
Camera angle was also better as for the full product put a better effect.
we used several different angles .
Mis es scene: For both production we had good locations
Framing: this was also improved because we but in the preliminary task we had some irrelevant items
were able to make shots which were much visible in the background which was quite distracting.
more effective than the one’s in our preliminary However for the full product , we didn’t have any
task. distractions as we made sure before filming that
everything was at its right place.
Here in the final product the mis en scene is fine as there is
nothing distracting or needles in the background.
