The document discusses how the media product uses and challenges conventions of animation for its target younger audience. It provides feedback from an online survey about the short film, including that most respondents were aged 16-20 and preferred an unpredictable story. Changes were made to the film based on test screenings, like removing the last scene that did not make sense. Technology was used at various stages, such as creating an animatic to storyboard the film and posting it online for feedback, as well as researching other animations online and using editing software to construct the final product.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2. Conventions typical of Animation that we Use - - our target audience is aimed at a younger audience. has comic elements.

3. Simple language.

4. We use fantastical characters Conventions that we Challenge Combining film and animation.

5. Our main character is an adult. This is however made more

6. conventional by giving him the mind of a child.

7. The film does not have a typical happy-ending.

8. Audience feedback

9. Distribution We used survey monkey to create our questionnaire This is what our survey looked like. We distributed the questionnaire by email. We had a low response rate. Perhaps we should have also distributed it on other websites such as Bebo and Facebook. This could have possibly increased the response rate.

10. What did we learn from the survey? Most people that took the survey were aged 16-20. This may be because they are more likely to use the internet, whereas others may find other ways better, such as paper. These results showed us that not only children like to watch animation. Reasons why they watch animation vary from entertainment and education, etc.

11. These results showed us what our audience would like to have in the short film. Unpredictable twists was the most popular with a rating of 58%. This possibly means that they like to watch a variation of things rather than it having the same structure all the time. Having the element of surprise attracts an audience as they want to know what happens next. For answer C, it got a 0% rate. This is because having a predictable story is pointless if they already know what is going to happen. We used some of their preferences in our planning, such as an unpredictable twist.

12. Changes made to film.... -We had people come in to watch our film and to suggest improvements. They all said that they thought the film was funny but did not get the ending. We took out the last scene and although it shortened the film, it made more sense. If we did have more time, I would have re filmed the ending completely to make the film better. -Another improvement that was suggested was that the dubbing was not in sync. So we went back into the studio and fixed up the dubbing pieces. -Also, as we had not finished all the recording, they said it definitely needs the rest of the recording to fill out the silences. We did this when we re dubbed.

13. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

14. POSTER The poster is effective for many reasons. We tried to make it bold and colourful like most children posters. The bright colours will attract a younger audience. The main focus of the poster is the image of the boy and the main title. We did this by making the font size very big and making the image big as well. Mithon Impothible read out loud sounds like someone that has a lisp. This suggests already that this film will be a comedy. The other thing that makes it quite comedic is the expression on the main characters face. It follows the conventions of a real poster, as it includes, title, classification, company name, etc.

15. TRAILER Our trailer has our theme tune and some of the voiceovers in it. This gives us a motif and also people will be able to recognize what film it is, just by hearing the theme tune. The voiceovers are like slight peeks at what will be shown in the film. We did this as it is a convention and also because we wanted the audience to want to watch the short film. It is very dramatic and therefore adds to the dramatic tension. The voiceover slips also show that this film will be a comedy. Both show elements of comedy and aims at a younger audience which is our target audience.

16. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?