Evaluation

Eni Berisha
Media Evaluation

When we started producing our media product we were told to make it as formal as possible, meaning that it had to directly represent a particular social group. For our Thriller which we ended calling it ‘‘Thirteen,’’ We decided to range it from an age of 18-26. This is portrayed through the age of the main character ‘‘Derek’’ who interprets a typical 20 year old. Furthermore, for the clip we used a car, a
Volkswagen golf, which is an ideal car for an 18-26 year old. Furthermore, in previous lessons we had learnt that the most common argument with ‘‘suspense’’ is weather to have a spectacular action packed opening which some argued will enthral the audience but other argued that the rest of the movie will not lead to the expectations of the opening sequence. Our thriller was only 2 minutes so we decided that it would be best to have an action packed sequence, even though it would not be as enthralling as a Hollywood blockbuster. The thriller challenged conventions of real media products with the use of deictic sound. The car pulling up revealed a gradual uplift in noise as if something was to happen.

For our thriller we relied on the crops to reveal the class of Derek. The smart shoes, shirt and trousers show class, it could reveal a businessperson. Derek represents a 20 year old whom arrives at his property in Volkswagen golf. The car also reveals the stability of Derek’s economy, which somehow foreshadows authority. The film is directed at a young audience, between the ages of 16 – 26. This reveals a normal adult which could relate to a-lot of peoples lives, coming home from work one day etc. Moreover the wife could also relate to normal housewives. Overall by having these two couples in the movie, one dead off course, it could relate to the lives of many people.

Different types of media institutions distribute different types of projects, some on a global scale and some in a national scale. Some distributers require creativity while some just distribute the norm. Our thriller is a norm which should be distributed in a world wide scale but on the internet. As it is, only an introduction into the movie. I believe its better for it to be distributed online and see on the comments it receives from sites such as Vimeo, YouTube and MySpace. Furthermore if positive comments are received from these sites than the thriller could also be distributed on ‘made for tv film’.

Our thriller Is aimed at males from the age of 16-26 albeit females of the same age could enjoy the twists and turns. The reason which we decided aim it at this certain age group is because the characters in the actual movie are of the same age. The age relates to the audience chosen so I would call it a pull factor.

The thriller thirteen will be released on Friday the 13th on all major internet sites: Face book, MySpace, YouTube, Vimeo etc. Our film will be starring Derek a hugely successful actor who’s success has soared through the London community. For advertisement the film will be stamped on Taxis, busses and in the tube. This is going to come to a cost of £2000 for two weeks advertisement. It will be worth it as the name will have to get across to people and hopefully will lead to positive comments on the above internet sites. If the comments turn out positive it would mean that the movie could be used for TV.
With our Thriller we decided that the main theme to attract the audience was going to be through the soundtrack. We decided that we were going to use the soundtrack plus effective camera angles to portray a sense of suspense. An example of this is when Derek walks up the stairs, here the soundtrack is muted and we could hear Derek’s footsteps. As soon as he reaches the top of the stairs we he turns on the light switch and at the same time the soundtrack continue. The switch allows for both the light to come on and for the soundtrack to start.

To construct our Thriller we used a camera, a tripod and a Mac computer. The filming process was straight forward as we knew what had to be done due to the structured plan we made before the filming. It became complicated when we uploaded our videos onto the Mac computer. To upload the video we had to cut and paste the clips that we needed, this meant for us to go through all the clips even the ones where we made mistakes and handpick the clips we were going to use. Before none of us had used final cut pro before so this was a new experience for us all, we thought that it would be extremely hard to cut and paste clips but it wasn’t, it was actually quiet simple but the process was very long. Also when we imported our clips into soundtrack, we had from over a thousand of instruments to pick from. From the prelim task to the final product the main thing we learnt was to complete any work whenever we had free time to.

Looking back at the project:
At the beggining of the project I personally thought there wasnt a chance we would end up with a finished thriller. This due to the time length spent trying to find a location; nerves ran low and the group collapsed at one stage. This tought me to understand the point of views of other group members and not just go ahead what i thought best. Now that the thriller is finished I am glad that I was involved in such a group. This because if the thriller went all according to plan we wouldnt of tested our dedication to the project but because things went wrong on the way I know have some experience on how to deal with the situation better. Furthermore at first I thougth creating a film would of been hard, I guess I was right. Creating a film was ''Difficult''. Moreover it wasnt just Difficult but the process was very long to. The filming itself was the best part of the thriller as we were all involved someway or another. The actual editting was very prolonged due to the precission needed for the matchcuts and the precission needed for the compilation of the soundtrack and clip.