Sent Final draft

This is the final version of SENT and is now uploaded to youtube ready to be marked.

Question 7) what have we learnt in the progression from the preliminary to the final product?

2.25 : 4.24

From our prelim exercise to our finished thriller i really feel we have improved immensely. in our prelim we were still really learning the ropes of the camera work and still learning about the shots hance why some of the shots are blurry and not exactly correct. in our actual thriller film we stopped to consider the aspects a lot more to perfect shots and sequences. a lot of time was put into certain scenes where we had to film two or more times however we knew we needed to do this to improve on the technical aspects from the preliminery exercise.
i think in the journey fro mthe preliminary to the actual result i have gained a lot of skills. firstly in how to use the camera and use the different shots to effect such as close ups,extreme closeups etc. another skill i feel ive learnt is directing, during filming sessions I often arranged characters and props around to suit the scene as well as inputting key ideas.

Sent

Preliminary exercise

Question 6) What have we learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

 4.24: the end

we used a range of technologies below are some examples.

1. Blackberry - this was used for taking pictures of locations and arranging meeting times and places with the actors and crew

2. Digital camera -this was used to take photos of filming sessions for our blog and also taking pictures of our story boards and sheets.

3. Apple mac - this was used for research on the market e.g survey monkey and updating progress to ur blog.

4. Blogger- this was used for making our online blog to keep up with teh progress we were making and any film ideas we may of had.

5. handheld video camera- this was used for the filming of every part of our film and preliminery exercise.

Question 5) How did we attract our audience?

Our thriller really hold,s theb audiences attention by switching shots and making the outcome unpredicatbel it keeps the audience on the edge of their seats wanting to watch on and find out what happens at the end.
It has a mixture of aspects to it from romance to murder so it can appeal to both genders.
The audience would want to watch on after the initial 2 minute opener becasue they would want to know why the murders occured and the story of the characters before. Also in the way the film ends with a cliffhanger makes the audience watch in wonder about what hapens after the messgage is sent.

Question 4)Who would be the audience for our media product?

Before creating our thriller we carried out. four pieces of market research between our group. we used survey monkey surveys and posted them on a Facebook pages for or peers to carry out.

i know the target group for our thriller film sent because all of the people that filled out my survey were between 16 - 21 so we aim to please this part of the market.
the reason they would watch our film is because it is fast paced editing to create adrenaline and take their breath away. generally the people of this age group are searching for a piece of media that actually does this.
we had already identified our target market as we knew that people of our age would enjoy however reults from our surveys proved conclusive. Below is a wordle our group created to show out target market :

People would watch our film as it is based around modern day technology to attract the modern day people. it represents how the people who are watching live and represents there activities however with a           murderous twist to make it interesting.

Question 3) what kind of media institution might distribute our media project?

our thriller film sent could be distributed by a real film production company such as film four, working title and metrodome.  these are UK examples

US examples.

the forms that our film could be viewed in would be :
Cinema (celluloid)
Cinema (digital)
internet
DVD
Television
Viral marketing.
the reason for using these methods would be that these are all popular forms of entertainment and popular comanies. our target market genreally use all of the forms of technology above so this would be a great place to show our thriller.

some real life examples of films similar to ours are: ''i know what you did last summer''
and  a film that uses social networking sites and computers. is ''the social network''

Question 2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

how does our thriller show gender?
within our thriller we show the relationship of boys and girls together. our film subverts the stereotype of dominance by the male because our film shows an even relationship between the two main characters.












age
Within our film there are only young people and it aims to show the way young people feel and live by incorporating modern technologies such as Facebook.










Are young people shown in a positive way?
The young people in this film are shown as happy teens having a good time experiencing a relationship and not causing any trouble. i would say the representation subverts the stereotype older people seem to put on the younger groups of people.

what classes are shown?
Within our film through the  people shown are working class. they are all students who live normal life within a working class background.

SexualityIn our thriller the only sexuality represented is heterosexual. it is the story of a "straight" couple and there are no stereotyped homosexual characters or any at all. the film shows how much of an integer part of young people life social networking is to keep up relationships.

Stereotypes within our film our main actress; shelby is blonde however fights the dumb blonde stereotype and comes across as mature and rational. 

Dumb blonde 

Shelby