T'sharna Bernard's Evaluation

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

In our film "Twisted"we set the two different scenes at the beginning of the film. This was the train station and the forest. In the station was where the antagonist character was introduced.

In the photo

above (which has been taken from art of the title sequence) from strange days, they used a close up shot of the main prop, the gun. This was done to show the audience what the main props were. we as a group decided to show a close up with our main prop, the key in the characters hand but she was playing with the keying.

The last shot in our film was a close up still shot of a hand, this was done to create suspense and to get the audience wondering but ours was in the forest under and bunch of leaves where as the hand in the image above is not underneath anything and i don't think it is used to create suspense.

How does your media product represent particular social groups

Marathon man opens and sets the scene with a man running around the park in the city. 'Marathon Man' can be compared to Twisted because both films open with someone walking or running somewhere, although in Marathon man, the man that is running is the protagonist where as in the film we produced Twisted it is a woman walking and she is the antagonist even though the audience don't become aware of this until the end of the film.

At the end of the film Twisted, the audience see a character, who hasn't been introduced before, they don't know who it is, or what has happened to them and why they are there. They audience

also don't know whether this character is a protagonist or an antagonist.

what kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? how will you attract/address your audience?

this student film had 13,715 views

genesis, A Level student Film

I have an online marketing strategy and this is a step by step of how

I'm going to construct this strategy. In order to make this work, I will upload my video online on to youtube. if the film was successful on youtube i would then try to promote the film in film festivals such as Raindance and Sundance (http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/) As weIl as using youtube, I would use other social networking sites such as; Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Bebo and other networking sites. I would then send links to all my friends and would get them to forward it to there friends so this would create a 'buzz' around my film.

This is how i would advertise my film. This is a facebook link to the dark knight about promoting their film: http://www.facebook.com/darkknight

who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for "Twisted" would come under the class of C2DE and would enjoy spending time socializing, shopping going to cinema's such as "the odeon" and "vue" and just enjoying life.

We took a picture of what we think a person that would watch our film would look like;

We think it would have;

- Smart phone, Blackberry, or iPhone

- Magazines

- Purse

-Essentials, like make up, hand cream

-Cinema Tickets, as they go to the cinema regularly

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

we made an animatic of what we learnt about the different technologies while making the product, some of these technologies are:

-research; blogger, youtube and google

-filming; it was just the camera's

- editing; final cut pro, soundtrack pro and livetype.

looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

When doing our preliminary match cut exercise we had to make a short film with a match cut but it didn't go very well. Our group made a lot of mistakes such as; the film was out of focus so therefore the filming quality wasn't good. Also the lining of the shots were poor, as there was either too much space above the head or the top of the head had been cut off.

When we started the preliminary exercise we didn't really work well as a team and as we progressed into making our actual film our team work got better and we learnt to work together as a team and faster.

We filmed our match cut exercise during a double lesson and spent an hour filming and the other hour editing. Therefore we did not have much time to put it together, whereas with our final thriller opening we had a lot more time to film and work out our shots as we filmed over two different days and edited over something like two weeks.

In our final thriller opening our shots are in focus, so the quality of the filming is good also the framing of our shots has got better compared to the preliminary exercise, as there is just enough space above the characters head.

Audience feedback and comments

People in our class filled out audience feedback sheets saying what they thought about our film. We then went on to the website wordle.net and made a word cloud of all the words they came up with. The words that come up big are the words that came up the most such as "good"

After we finished watching our thriller opening in the cinema at The Screen on The Green, we asked our friends what they thought of our film and here is what some of them said;

"it was good but some of the cuts were a bit slow"