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Evaluation Q7

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

Evaluation Q6

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

Evaluation Q5

How would you attract your audience?

Marketing is a big part of attracting an audience and creating a hype before release. Having a well made film will also be beneficial as people will recommend it to their friends and family. 

 

Evaluation Q4

Who would be the audience of your media product?

The audience for our film will be from ages 15 and above.

 

Evaluation Q3

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

I think 20th century fox would be a perfect distributor for our film.

Evaluation Q2

What social groups are represented in your media product?

Our film portrays taxi drivers, nuclear family and youth/females.

Feedback

Following the first showcasing of our film to all our family and friends we received some feedback.

 

Evaluation Q1

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

In our film we both used and developed conventions of the psychological thriller genre in attempt to make our opening unique and entertaining.

          

Evaluation prep

After finishing our opening and being very pleased with the outcome it was time to get started with the evaluations. I have started already and it is taking much longer than I first anticipated, with planning and then getting down to filming and then editing it has proven to be very time consuming and I'm going to have to get a move on.

They'll be starting to go up soon.

Storyboard / Shot List

Sorry, I forgot to post this before! We did make a storyboard before filming our video but because all of our drawing skills arent very good we found it difficult to express our views and decided to write out a 'shot-list' instead.

These are all the shots we initially wanted to have and we filmed all of them. However when it came to editing some of the shots didn't fit right together so we decided to switch them around and some, we decided to eliminate completely. 

Dialogue

The dialogue in the taxi was shown as one sided however while filming we tried to help our actor (my dad) by having a real conversation with him so that the conversation would flow more naturally. Here is a video of the unedited footage to show you how we took out the different parts we thought were effective and made sense alone.

Film Synopsis

If we was to extend our opening and make it into a feature length film, as a group, we have decided that the story line will consist of the mother and her baby who are trapped in the boot enduring all kinds of abuse; physical, mental and sexual. Although, this character will be the main protagonist the driver will also have other victims under his control.  There will also have a heroic character that comes to the rescue them, weather that is the police or a family member we are still undecided. The journey to their rescue will have a variety of suspects but we have made the audience omniscient to create more tension which is rare in psychological thrillers. 

Location

The location we decided to film the first part of our opening was done on a quiet road where both Ciara and Emily, two members of MAC 4, live which was useful because we had access to the houses which is how we got the ariel view of the taxi. The road is also quiet so we could be more relaxed during filming. Another reason we choose to film here is because the mise-en-scene shows it is ordinary and therefore misleads the audience. These are all factors we considered before we began filming.

Then for the second part of the opening we drove to Whitewebbs, a more isolated location down the road. This setting creates a more creepy mood as there are many trees which create a sense of being trapped. This conforms to the conventions of our psychological thriller genre. 

Our locations were well thought out and concentrated on the mise-en-scene and the connotations they portray. 

Final Film

Our film is finally done, it's such a relief. I am very pleased with our final product many hours went into producing it and overall I think it turned out well. Some feedback footage will be uploaded soon.