The document provides an evaluation of Josh Fry's media project. It discusses how the project uses and challenges conventions of real media through its title placement and camera techniques. It compares the stalker character to the film "The One Hour Photo" and discusses differences in their stalking styles. The project would likely be distributed online given its low budget and target 15+ age rating. The target audience is teenagers who would enjoy the implied tension, and the project aims to appeal to them through use of a younger cast in a relationship. Josh has learned about using technologies like Mac, video cameras, and editing software through constructing this project.

1. Evaluation – Media Josh Fry Candidate Number: 4073 Centre Number: 64820

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? We placed the title of the film at the end of the project, we used it as a sort of climax to the opening because I believe the tension that had built up to that point was released on the silent title. and therefore the name "The Silent Obsession" felt appropriate for this project. The camera angles, movements and techniques we used in our project hopefully reflect the tension we were hoping to create as it builds throughout the scene this is combined with the decision to use quick cuts and more focus on the movements for example the legs to show haste rather than a full body shots. These factors are continued to both challenge and support different aspects of ‘real media’.

3. How does your media product represent particular social groups? The person we cast to play our stalker possibly relates to the stalker character in the thriller film 'The One Hour Photo', with this film i believe the similarities of the two characters would perhaps be the way in which they stalk their victims. Also the fact that in 'The One Hour Photo' the stalker is following someone he feels is his family due to some form of a mental instability and because of the speed of this opening the true identity and motive for the killing is unknown. A major difference would be the style of stalking as it is much more brutal and quick in our project in comparison to the long drawn out decent into insanity for 'OHP'.

4. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? Our production would be hopefully be distributed to the online population as it was low budget and with the rise in online media viewers the project would have a better possible chance of success. The Project would most logically be a certificate 15+ as it contains scenes of violence, blood and other murder related injuries. The project contains minimal language and a weapon clearly drenched in blood and would therefore be unsuitable for anyone of a younger age.

5. Who would the audience be for your media project? The target audience we had chosen was important because the setting and characters would hopefully be relate to the situation and see themselves in one of those scenes. Also there is a factor I find myself with Thriller films where you think of the ways you yourself would navigate around the circumstances and also the feeling of knowing they are there and the victim is completely unaware. The teenage audience would hopefully enjoy and find the tension where it is implied in the opening and would possibly have the same effect watching horror/thriller films from the box office standard.

6. How would you attract/address your audience? I believe there are a number of factors that have drawn our targeted audience to out project, one of these factors I believe is the use of a younger cast and the fact they are in a relationship which most teenagers can relate to and also stalker films are often more based on an older audience and so this is a fresh look that is made to appeal to young adults as a sign that we understand the types of films younger people want from the current age.

7. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? I learned a number of lessons from using this technology, the variety of different technologies I was able to use and learn about to create the most successful thriller opening I could. I experienced the upsides and downsides of the media production technology and have gained a greater experience of all of this hardware and software. The first and most important piece of equipment was the Apple Mac, the Mac had a number of editing and both diagetic and not diagetic music constructors which can be made into a project that contains either dialog and/or a soundtrack.

8. The (Handy Cam) video camera was a useful tool in the filming of the project, I learned a number of techniques to use this camera properly and. It was the most important tool in the creation of our thriller project. Blogger is a good blogging program that i used to document my process leading up to and ending in my final project, There is a range of features on Blogger that allow you to make your own personal detailed Blog. Garageband is the program that allows you to create looped music, soundtracks, and many other musical combinations using a range of instruments and sound effects.

9. What have I learnt from my preliminary task up to my final project? I feel I have learned a huge amount since the production of my preliminary task to do with everything from the use of camera angles, techniques and movements. From the experience of my preliminary task and the earlier failed version I learned a lot on the necessary technicalities to create the correct tension, atmosphere and other aspects that I would have not understood from behind the camera before going through this learning and development experience.