AS media

1. Media Evaluation 23/03/2015
In what ways does your media product use, challenge or develop forms and
conventions of real media products?
There are many ways in which my thriller opening uses challenges and develops real life media
products. Having done this has helped me understand how certain aspects work in the media
industry and helped me apply it to my thriller opening. Within my production process I have used
various media platforms, inspiration from other films and TV shows and conducted a lot of research
to make the best thriller opening possible.
I have used other real life media products to make my thriller opening. Throughout the production
process I have used professional and non-professional music to determine what would be the best
way to make and create my music piece. Looking at other music gave me a wider knowledge of what
other thriller music sounds like and how I can improve mine. I found three pieces of music that I
liked that were created by professionals from the media industry and I thought that if I merged them
together I should find the perfect music. My target audience is 16+ so I needed to keep my audience
interested, I decided to make sure it was upbeat that then changed dramatically to symbolise the
downfall of the protagonist. However this wasn’t the case and I decided just too just stay with the
music that I made. I catered for my older audience members because I wanted to keep them
interested and thought that fast pace music would keep them interested. I had to used a vary of
other thriller openings to build my thriller opening and use inspiration to keep my audience
engaged. These are examples of other real life media products and became helpful in the production
process of my thriller opening. I also used social media as a way to platform my thriller opening to
gain a large audience but this again allowed me the chance to use other real life media products like
social media and because it’s free I had the best chance at having a large audience.
I develop forms of actually media products because I took the idea of other films and TV shows and
based my thriller opening around the work of others. Doing this allowed me to a range of media
platforms that gave my opening the chance to be the best opening it could be. The storyline is based
upon BBC thriller dramas, this is an example of a media product that has helped my understanding
of how to make thriller films and use the media industry to my advantage. From using Facebook,
Youtube and Soundcloud I have used the feedback I gained from that I develop those points I got
and adapted them to fit my thriller opening, further demonstrating that I was using media products
to make the best thriller opening. I was constantly developing what I already had and using it to my
advantage like adapting everything I had based upon research that I had done and interpreting it for
example when I handed out questionnaires to find my perfect target audience and questionnaires
based on my rough cut, this made it easy for me to then make the perfect thriller opening. Lastly
using apps on the Apple MAC computers like final cut allowed for my editing of my thriller to be in a
very high quality.
I didn’t challenge any real media products because I needed them in order to make my thriller
because I didn’t know how to make an opening without them. The only thing I did challenge was the
fact that I didn’t go for the conventional thriller storyline and based it on the more dramatic
storylines of a young girl going missing, I thought this would challenge myself into making a dramatic
storyline and adapting it to the thriller genre.

2. Media Evaluation 23/03/2015
1. This was my main inspiration for my thriller opening because I liked how it almost seems
fairy tale like and almost like the audience are in a daze. I liked how the green and yellow
colours work together to make this forest feeling about the whole of their opening.
2. I have used the red in my own thriller like “Mayday”. I like how the red stands out on a black
canvas and allows the audience to take in what they have seen. The red also reflects the
colour of danger and highlights the danger in the thriller opening.
3. This is one of the characters from Mayday and I thought it was effective how they used a
high vis jacket to demonstrate that he was someone in charge and the yellow police ribbon
explained that something bad has already taken place.
4. Broadchurch was one of the other TV shows that interested me because I liked how the
opening is set outside and that allows me to incorporate their ideas and use them in my own
thriller opening as I thought setting it outside would link with the element of danger. I
specifically liked the close up Broadchurch that is being displayed because it will stick in the
audiences mind.
5. This is an interesting shot between both characters in Broadchurch and gave us the idea to
use a young child as it has been proven to most popular in the media industry, the side shot
of both characters allow us to gain an understand of their relationship through their
proxemics
6. Showing the girl dead at the end of series 2 of Broadchurch allows the audience to know
exactly what happened to her, however throughout that series is only hints at her death, the

3. Media Evaluation 23/03/2015
long shot on her that she is only a teenage girl and the white she is wearing connotes her
innocence
7. The effect on image seven allows the audience to mark the moment that this must be an
interesting scene, also this is specifically showing the parents and how they must be feeling
and doing this gives the audience a chance to evaluate everything they have seen.
8. This shot specifically refers to a child and the childlike drawing, draws the audience attention
to the main story that this young boy has been taken and is now missing, through the close
up it gives the audience a chance to reflect on what has happened already.
9. This again refers that there are only two characters that are the main focus in the opening
on the BBC drama “The Missing”. The mid shot, shows there facial expression of how sad
they are and the body language shows there close relationship.