Flanna Lindsay Evaluation

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
We as part of the blogging process and for research each researched, watched and reviewed thriller openings and films we tried to conform to the conventions of what we had seen, I think it challenges conventions of real media products because its filmed with young people and within the thriller genre there would generally be older people acting in it, the theme involved is supposed to be quite business-like with an mi5 feel to it, I think we tried to develop it by using a popular landmark(London eye) throughout it as lots of clips of roads, transport and landmarks are popular within action thrillers scenes we tried are hardest to incorporate establishing shots of the area(Waterloo) hence to show where it is set.

• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
I think it represents people that are high up in power and access confidential information are vulnerable because what they can access may be wanted by others for criminal reasons.

• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Universal may distribute our film because they distributed Bourne ultimatum and inside man, our short opening is like that as it involves technology and if developed would most likely be action involved chases and murders as I said before we liked the mi5 feel to it so if universal distribute films similar to ours such as those I think they would be an industry that would be interested if it was developed. I think the genre of our film is Spy Thriller.


• Who would be the audience for your media product?
I think the audience for this product may Range from a young age to an old age although I don’t think it would appeal as much to juveniles/teenagers or young children, there may possibly be more male fans as from research it shows the men generally more interested in action and conspiracy whereas women may side to comedies and romances or horror.

• How did you attract/address your audience?
As it was a London filmed project we would assume for an amateur company
that most people who would view it would live in or around London therefore we included a continuous theme of the London Eye with the titles and an actual part of the opening, I think this would attract our audience as they can relate to that landmark or that area it also adds an effect of “The Business Man” a 9-5 job working in the city of London which we are aiming that group to be our target audience.

• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this
product? I have learnt how to confidently use final and sound track pro I have also learnt how to use and film with the HD-V cameras, as in previous experience I did not use those. I have never tried to make a soundtrack before and I happy to have learnt to use soundtrack pro well.

• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? I think that putting into practice the 3 introductory rules: 180 Degrees rule, shot reverse shot and match on action proved hard at first as all have to do with continuity and remember what needs to be in this shot or that is difficult and whilst editing there were problems we encountered like matching this shot with other but from what we had learned in the preliminary task after rough edits and cutting clips we kept going over and over to try and make it as perfect as possible we dealt with sound problems (background noise for example wind etcc)

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My Evaluation - Joshua Pullar

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Final cut Pro

Final cut pro is a fairly new programmed and has been developed very sophisticatedly and has reformed films directors and editors for big films previously used Avids Technology Media Composer. According to a 2007 SCRI study, Final cut is used by 49 percent of the us proffesional market whereas Avid is now 22 percent.

This has become from Final cut increasing its technology.

'Seven' Opening scenes

I watched the opening scenes for the film seven and and it was a typical fast moving piece of film for the opening scenes of the film it had the main colours of black,white and red included this to me conotated buisnessmen and proffessional witha twist some of the shota included are of books and people writing,film negatives being cutting its quite a gritty and twisted begging all the clips are fast moving anf the music used is sampled from a band called nine inch nails the song is called closer we were not allowed to sample music but the directors choice of music is interesting and changes tone throughout the story as the last song is by David Bowie another element i realised which is not in the opening credits of the film but is throughout the film it is constantly raining which shows us there is always an underlying sadness of fear of some sort. The opening scenes also reveal that it is a police film by showing a police badge very early on and we are givin clues throughout it. The is voted 8.6/10 according to IMDB figures and it classed a a crime mystery Thriller

Seven

Storyboard

Josh has posted our storyboard on the blogger we spent quite long on it because it was changed a few times as we discussed more realistic and enthralling thriller openings all our other ideas were less real and as we were introduced to thrillers more we realised that the ideas that we had didnt really show what was typical or accepted ad thriller openings.