1. The document describes a film opening created by students for their media portfolio. 2. The intended audience is teenagers and young adults as the thriller genre and mysterious opening would appeal most to them. 3. Independent film distributors like 20th Century Fox or Film4 would be suitable to distribute the film as they target similar audiences. 4. The opening uses conventions of the thriller genre like darkness, screams and a victim to create suspense and intrigue for the audience. It represents gender and age stereotypes commonly seen in real media.

1. Yr12 foundation portfolio FILM OPENGING EVALUATION FALLIS MUDE TANJINA BEGUM

3. we aimed our audience at be both young and older people, particularly those who go cinema a lot most which is likely to be the younger generation.

4. The main ages we’re targeting are15+rated.

5. We done further research on the type of audience this film will attract.

6. I believe the best audience for my film would be teenagers and young adults, as it is a thriller film, and I feel the content would appeal to them most.

7. The target audience we’ve chosen would be the right audience for our product because they can relate to the characters and what goes on within the beginning of the film.

8. The enigma code is a great way of getting attention off the audience as is makes them feel more involved, teenagers in this case are the audience who are most likely to feel more involved and can relate to it more rather than elder people.

10. To start off we would want UK Independent media institutions to consider distributing our media product, as this will allow at least a nation to recognise our product and hopefully move on and try get it distributed internationally.Media distributers such as: ’20thCENTURY FOX’ ‘FILM 4’ ‘ENTERTAINMENT FILM DISTRIBUTERS’ ‘INDEPENDENT’

11. In what ways does your media product use, develop or change forms and conventions of real media products? We had made the kidnapper as a male it is stereotyped that a male is more likely to be a kidnapper as they are stronger than females. Conventions that we used in our film opening are: a victim, darkness and scream. We had used the darkness in our film as this creates a tensed atmosphere and the audience watching will also feel tensed as they would be wondering why the characters are walking in the dark. We had looked at the opening of hills have eyes which starts in the dark of a women running in the woods. This creates an enigma code. So we had set our film in an dark an isolated location. We had used a victim as every thriller has a victim in it. The victim in our film is the lady as in real life females are the ones that are most likely to be victims of kidnappers as they are easy to attack. We had looked at the film taken and saw that the victim in this film was a lady as she is an easy target. We had used a scream at the end as this would make the audience want to watch more and they would be asking questions to themselves such as what has happened to the lady that got kidnapped. Is she dead? Does she get rescued?And so on.

12. How does your media product represent particular social groups? Our film represents gender as how we see it nowadays. The victim is a lady as it is stereotypical that women are an easy target and the kidnapper is male as they are more stronger then women. The kidnapper is in a hooded top which stereotypes young people and represents age. The representation of age in our film opening shows how crime is committed by young people and how the young people are capable of committing such crimes.

13. How did you attract/address your audience? The way in which we had attracted our audience is by making our film based on what type of genre would attract teenagers. We had got characters to act of the similar age group of our audience as this would make them want to watch the film. If we had got older people to act then the audience would not be interested on watching the film as they would not have the connection with the older people. We had also attracted our audience with the music that we had made. It is the type of music that would attract the teenagers which like hip hop and RnB music.

15. Through this usage of ‘Garageband’ we learnt several new techniques such as learning how to use ‘Garageband’ and combining beats to make a whole song, how to share and converge the sound we made on ‘Garageband’ into ITunes as an mp3 in order for us to add it to our film opening and make further adjustments on ‘Final Cut Pro’ which we used to edit our film opening and add effects such as adjust lighting of the film, mute parts of the film to add sound in and add cuts and combine different camera shots to make a whole shot.

16. The other application we learnt to use was ‘LiveType’, where we made our titles for the film opening. With this program I learnt how to change the transitions of the title, how it enters or leaves, how to make the font match the genre of the film opening and change the duration of the titles so that it can fit into the places we left for the titles to be placed in the sequence on ‘Final Cut Pro’.