2. In what ways does your media product use develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
product?
 Before finalising any ideas for the product I carried out many researcher parties. I understood the
conventions of a sci-fi thus transferring my knowledge to research that would question our
audience’s understanding of the sci-fi genre. Our audience had great understanding of this
convention, they each individually understood the aspects of sci-fi and what the genre consists of.
As well as our primary research, our focus group survey gave us the means to understand what they
expect when viewing this genre, the structure and morals that are a normal feature. We researched
all the top sci-fi films of all time and among many we looked at what people love the most about this
genre and what made the film such a success, we believed it was the tension and the music. The
music played a great part in dictating the viewers emotions, in our final product we included music
that would create tension and suspense, viewers love a mystery and we wanted to keep our audience
on their toes. We also analysed sci-fi films, that did well in the mainstream, we did an opening
analysis of each film and gave feedback, told ourselves what we wanted to achieve in making our
product and what would be the best way of going about it.
Top 10 most
selling films of
all time are from
a sci-fi genre

3. How does your media product represent particular
social groups?
 During our primary research, we developed a questionnaire to
analyse our target audience, it resulted with our summary of our
audience. The majority of our audience were 17year olds, so we
incorporated 17year olds in our final product, even though our first
draft had a young 5 year old as the main, we wanted to reach out to
our target audience. There appeared more females than males, so we
decided to give a female the main part, the dominant ethnicity
seemed to be African British, so our main had to be of an African
descent, the next majority of our audience were Caucasians, so our
co-main was of a Caucasian background. Though our audience Since our audience were teenagers the
seemed to like Sci-fi we thought that following all of the other choice of cast was carefully done to
research we would attract a great audience.
appeal to the audience that we hoped
for. The choice of clothing was also
done to relate to the audience.

4. What kind of media institution might
distribute your media product and why?
 Supposing my product happens to be in need of
an institution to distribute my product, 20th
Century fox would be a great suit for the film.
This is because 20th century fox have
distributed some of the most grossed sci-fi
films. Such as; Star Wars, X-Men, Alien and The
Planet of the Apes. It is also one of the most
used distributors in the UK. Because 20th
Century has world wide distribution the product
could possibly widen it’s range worldwide.

5. Who would be the audience
for your media product?
 As previously said the audience for our product was clearly
teenagers, we know this because of our primary research, the
questionnaire we carried out gave us the information we
needed to successfully create a product that would appeal to
our audience. The dominant genre was a female in our
questionnaire, like other films/shows our product decided to
give our characters mysterious storylines, we wanted to unravel
the plot slowly so that our audience who happen have short
learning spam would be able to follow. Possibly also young
teenagers that live in London and happen to be students.

6. How did you attract/address
your audience?
 With the help of our research we were able to bring in our
audience in with the normality of our characters, there
clothing is that of a daily basis to our target audience, so
that they are able to relate to the characters. The main
female character is wearing a leathery jacket with
fur, skinny cream jeans and a bag. The functions of the
female dressings are simple and basic. In the same way the
male character has a simple basic dressing.
Jeans, Trainers, jacket and hat. As well as visual
attractions, there are also audio attractions, when asking
our focus group what caught there attention when
watching a sci-fi film they replied with the music, they said
that music triggered emotion and feeling. Thus we added
music in the film to attract the ears of our audience and to
trigger a sense of mystery and tension with the audience.

7. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
 When filming I was the director and I handled
the camera in many cases. I had to learn how to
set up the tripod, place the camera and film
safely without caution. In addition, I am able to
set up a tripod, dolly and the microphone
successfully.
 After filming the editing had to be taken place
in final cut, I had to learn to use final cut, after a
few lessons I was able to use final cut
triumphantly. I learnt how to crop, use
transitions, add titling and many more.

8. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do
you feel you have learnt in the progression it
to the full product?
 During this task I felt drained, because the planning was the hardest thing to
do. I also was not used to working in a group. But by the end of it, I learnt that
the planning was most essential for the production, I realised if the planning
lacked behind then so would the production, it has definitely taught me to be
more careful and more aware of my planning.
 Learning how to attack the basics and complicated parts of final cut in a short
amount of time has helped me tackle big tasks. I have learnt also how to use
technical equipment sufficiently.
 Lastly, I have learnt the functions of a team, though there were many mis -
communications, I have learnt how to work within a team and bring every one
together to create a great final product.