The document discusses a media production called "State of Mind" that uses camera techniques rather than dialogue to develop characters and suspense. It establishes the main character is in his 20s and enjoys social drinking. Warner Bros is presented as a media institution that could distribute the film. The film receives a 15 rating due to themes of drug use and drink spiking. Suspense and tension-building techniques are used to attract audiences. During production, the filmmakers learned to edit footage to achieve desired effects like flashbacks. They also learned conventions of the horror/thriller genre, like using diegetic sounds to build suspense.

1. By Jordan Bell

2.  Our media product 'State Of Mind' challenges other
forms and conventions of real media products as it
does not use speech and dialogue in order to build
suspense and establish character relationships. Instead,
we have chosen to use no dialogue and purely camera
movement and angles to establish character
relationships and build suspense. An example of how
we did this is through the use of the over-the-shoulder
shot when two of our main characters come into
contact, this also helps the viewer to see what our main
character is seeing on his way home.

3.  Our film contains all characters of roughly the same
age group, each character is aged 20-25.The only true
representation of this age group within our film is that
of our main character, he is presented as a young man
who lives alone and enjoys going out and drinking
socially. This social drinking eventually puts him at
risk of drink spiking, another problem covered in our
media production.

4.  The kind of media institution which might distribute
our film is Warner Bros as this media institution
known for the production and distribution of some of
the biggest movie franchises to hit the cinema screen
such as ‘Final destination’ and ‘Lord of the rings’. The
million pound budgets Warner Bros had for the
production and distribution of these films indicates
that they would be willing to invest enough money
into the production and distribution of our film.

5.  We have decided that our film will have an age
restriction of 15 due to the themes explored within the
film i.e. the results of drug use and the problem of
drink spiking within pubs and bars. This age rating
slightly restricts the audience for our media
production, however, my target audience research
showed that my main audience were 16-20 year olds so
the age rating would not have a significant effect on the
size of our audience.

6.  We attracted our audience by the use of suspense, our
opening causes the viewer to watch on as they want to
find out what is going to happen later on in the film.
Our media production uses common techniques which
are used to build tension such as diegetic and non
diegetic sound such as music and creaking floor
boards.

7.  During the process of constructing this product I learnt
that it is possible to edit footage filmed in order to
create the effects which you desire, in our media
production one of the ways in which we used the
Apple Mac software in order to edit our film to fit our
own ideas is the insertion of flashbacks into our film,
these were filmed as separate bits of footage and then
edited in during the construction process.

8.  Since our preliminary task, we have learned the
conventions which need to be used according to which
genre of film you are creating. In our case
Horror/thriller films need events which are going to
build suspense, we used diegetic sounds in order to do
this such as doors/floorboards creaking.