Preparation for evaluation (better than Adam and aidan's put together)

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

- Because we have researched the conventions of a thriller film, we knew what to include. This helps our outcome to be more professional like real media products.

-We can't however have similar settings to real thriller films, because we don't have a budget and we can't for example, film off roof tops (for example the film Vertigo) because that would cross health and safety issues.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product represents particular social groups such as teenagers, because the main character is a teenager and therefore teenagers can relate.

- Most of the time, the main character of a thriller film is a man, however we decided to give a twist and have the protagonist as a woman, not only will this help to appeal to women, but it makes the film interesting.

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

The kinds of media that will distribute my media product will be in the form of:

- Posters: This will help advertise and promote our thriller film and increase viewings/sales.

- DVD: The dvd will be a convenient way to distribute our film, most thriller films are distributed by dvd.

- TV adverts: This will boost sales by displaying clips of our film to entice potential customers.

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

The target market is aimed at men and women, because although the main character (the detective) is a woman. The detective theme is leaned more towards the male gender because stereotypically, men like sort of crime/mystery thriller films.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

We attracted/addressed our audience by

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

The 'Adobe Photoshop' software that we used was a very productive, it was easy to use and had a proffesional look to our Ident product.

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

We have learnt...