7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Our preliminary task (left) and our main product (right) above.

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

5. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

4. How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation How did you address / attract your audience?

Evaluation

3. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation

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

We wanted our product to be sinister and creepy however also wanted to keep it original. With music, we took ideas from opening scenes from films such a Seven and Silence of the Lambs. The music from Seven was very dark and sharp and the music from Silence of the Lambs was more fast and classical, but like Seven still very dark. We wanted our music to go very well with our clips so we found what is called 'creepy music box' on youtube which fitted perfectly with our filming, and added greatly to the thrilling side to it.



When looking at Seven, what we liked most about their opening scene was the fast cuts. From looking at Seven we were able to discover that putting lots of different fast cuts into our opening it made it more scary and engrossed the audience a lot more. We had lots of shots of our killer in his house which we used and lots of shots of our innocent school girl walking home from school on quiet, empty roads. By putting these shots together and having them cut quickly from one to another it created a lot of tension. 

Along with out shots and music our mis-en-scene also did conform to the usual conventions of horror opening scenes. The killers house was very dark and his 'criminal' like clothes also added to this. Furthermore our 'victim' was very innocent looking, in a school uniform however walked down a dark street. This I feel is definatley typical of an opening scene to a thriller.

Although we used forms and conventions of real media in some aspects of our scene I feel we used very unique camera angles. In our opening we used snakes. We created camera angles where we would zoom in and out of the snakes in the background highlighting the phycopathic side to the man in his house.

I think it is really important that different film genres haver certain forms and conventions to follow as it is what makes them what they are. We used creepy music and fast shots as that is what is thrilling about thrillers. I think opening scenes are exremely important to engross your audience into your scene straight away - first impressions are very important, even in film. Of course, every film also needs a unique element to it also, which is what I think we done. We used and developped ideas from big thrillers, but also put in our own ideas also.

2. How does your product represent particular social groups?
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Warp Films

Warp films was established by Warp records founded by Rob Mitchell and Steve Beckett. It originally produced a number of short films. Rob Mitchell died in 2001, but Steve Beckett decided to continue with Warp Films with the help of friend Mark Herbert. Warp films is an independent film company based in Sheffield.

One film they produced was This Is England. The films budget was originally £1,500,000. 93% of critics gave the film a positive review (based on 82 reviews). The film had an average score of 86/100 based on 23 reviews. It appeared on several US top ten lists of 2007. Director Gillies Mackinnon rated the film the best film of the year and critic and film maker David Thompson rated it third. The film was also ranked fourteen in The Guardian’s list of 2007 best films. I would say overall this film was a success not only in the UK but in the US also. It definitely benefited the UK film industry as a whole as it then had a spinoff of two channel 4 series. Northern independent realist films became a big hit I think after this film was made.

Attack the Block and Se7en

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