The student used various media technologies throughout the different stages of their Advanced Portfolio project. During research and planning, they used their smartphone for communication, internet browsing, maps, and taking location photos. They edited footage and created transitions using Adobe Premiere Pro. Photoshop was used to design packaging and advertisements. During evaluation, they continued blogging and used social media to gather audience feedback.
The document discusses the evaluation questions for a student media project opening sequence. It analyzes how the sequence uses and challenges conventions of real thriller films through its representation of the main character, a young female journalist. The character challenges stereotypes by being an intelligent, successful woman rather than the typical vulnerable female lead. The document examines how her social group and character are represented through mise-en-scene elements like setting, lighting, color, body language and behavior. It considers both the positive and negative aspects of this representation, and how it relates to the intended target audience. Finally, it discusses how the low-budget student project would likely be distributed on DVD rather than in cinemas.
The document provides information on 5 horror films:
1) Hard Candy (2005) - About a 14-year-old girl who drugs and psychologically tortures a photographer who she met online and suspects of being a pedophile.
2) Black Swan (2010) - Follows a ballerina competing for a lead role in Swan Lake who finds her life mirroring her character as she loses grip on reality.
3) Funny Games (2007) - Two young men take a family hostage in their vacation home and psychologically torment them for their own amusement.
4) Scream (1996) - A mysterious killer in a Halloween costume begins murdering teenagers in a
The student used various media technologies throughout the different stages of their Advanced Portfolio project. During research and planning, they used their smartphone for communication, internet browsing, maps, and taking location photos. They edited footage and created transitions using Adobe Premiere Pro. Photoshop was used to design packaging and advertisements. During evaluation, they continued blogging and used social media to gather audience feedback.
The document discusses the evaluation questions for a student media project opening sequence. It analyzes how the sequence uses and challenges conventions of real thriller films through its representation of the main character, a young female journalist. The character challenges stereotypes by being an intelligent, successful woman rather than the typical vulnerable female lead. The document examines how her social group and character are represented through mise-en-scene elements like setting, lighting, color, body language and behavior. It considers both the positive and negative aspects of this representation, and how it relates to the intended target audience. Finally, it discusses how the low-budget student project would likely be distributed on DVD rather than in cinemas.
The document provides information on 5 horror films:
1) Hard Candy (2005) - About a 14-year-old girl who drugs and psychologically tortures a photographer who she met online and suspects of being a pedophile.
2) Black Swan (2010) - Follows a ballerina competing for a lead role in Swan Lake who finds her life mirroring her character as she loses grip on reality.
3) Funny Games (2007) - Two young men take a family hostage in their vacation home and psychologically torment them for their own amusement.
4) Scream (1996) - A mysterious killer in a Halloween costume begins murdering teenagers in a