Media evaluation
- 1. EVALUATION QUESTION 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Sound/ Music: This is a Our media product uses some of the generic conventions common convention used of real media products to create the actual effect of the to create various genre of the movie. emotional effects towards Camera Angle: There are the audience. We also several camera angles we used the convention by used “big close up ‘s” to adding show the prominent detail non digetic sinister music and facial expression of a at character as a means of fast pace at the start to creating intimacy and create an sinister effect, audience engagement with with this protagonists life the thoughts and emotions is shown representing in of the character. In our overall product we used this angles to show someone dead , someone crying and hands full of blood. This convention has also been used in “the invisible” We also used long shot at the scene when the protagonists leaves their house to show where the person lives. (their living environment. )
- 2. Characters: You always have a protagonist who is deeply affected by something and at first is lost, unsure of what's happening. Plus they often have other people with them i.e. parent , friend, family who are also involved in the same situation. In our media product we used this convention and decided that our protagonist will have 2 characters along with themselves : A close friend who dies and a mother who is injudicious making the protagonists life more rough than it already is from losing a friend. Typical Plot: Nearly in all psychological thrillers you have similar plots which is: either the protagonist is haunted/ being followed by something or they see someone dead, additionally no one around them wants to believe it, which possible makes them depressed because of that they’re going mad themselves. A lot of the times it’s to do with supernatural. In our media product we decided to use both kind of plots , so the protagonist has lost someone and starts seeing this dead person and feels as if they’re haunted. Along with it the protagonist have a mother who smokes and is an alcoholic , behaves careless towards her, is negligent to her. This adds to the part of the plot where no one understands or believes the protagonists issue. This is similar to the plot in “the invisible” where it also has to do with someone’s death of a teenager.
- 3. Question 5: How did you attract/ address your audience? We attracted the audience in several different ways which are age, gender and the & plot. Age: We used teenagers as the character group as a lot of psychological thrillers have teenagers as characters e.g. “the butterfly affect” , plus having characters of the same age as the audience makes it more interesting & easier for the audience to understand what’s happening. Plot/ Storyline: The plot attracts the audience because looking at it in overall we have used teenagers , factors as relationships with different people & lifestyle. As we also have teenagers as our target audience these factors are common to teenagers making it more interesting towards teenagers. Gender: We decided to use a girl because female’s are often represented to be innocent and vulnerable, and having such person as the “victim” in the psychological thriller makes it more striking.
- 4. EVALUATION QUESTION 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? Camera Angle & Tripod: We found out that using a Film Content: In both productions we had good props tripod makes it less wobbly making it easier to focus according to the mis en scene, but this time we used all the onto what's happening. props as last time not all props were used which could have Camera angle was also better as for the full product put a better effect. we used several different angles . Mis es scene: For both production we had good locations Framing: this was also improved because we but in the preliminary task we had some irrelevant items were able to make shots which were much visible in the background which was quite distracting. more effective than the one’s in our preliminary However for the full product , we didn’t have any task. distractions as we made sure before filming that everything was at its right place. Here in the final product the mis en scene is fine as there is nothing distracting or needles in the background.