4) Who would be the audience of your media production?

Having the role of the director meant that I had to make sure that we targeted the right audience, in order for our film to be successful. As I have researched into the British board of film classification website http://www.bbfc.co.uk/ it has helped me decide what age group would be best for our product, by looking at each criteria I have concluded that 15+ would be a best suited audience. Also the help of our questionnaires being distributed helped to decide what age category for product should be targeted. From the results shown we are able to establish that our thriller appeals to more females than males as more than half of our audience was female, are audience is from the age of 15 and above but mostly around 15-18. Under the criteria of a 15 it states that ‘Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable. Strong sadistic or sexualised violence is also unlikely to be acceptable’ throughout the rest of our product I believe our film achieves what is required for a 15.

This is Reiss Ramsey; he is 17 years of age and lives in the Dagenham.
He listens to a variety of different music genres such as pop, indie music, R&B and a few rap tunes. Reiss occasionally dresses in simple clothing, with jeans and a top. He shops in places such as top man, River Island, H&M, JD sports, foot locker etc. on a week day he usually watches the following TV programmes: glee, on tree hill, scrubs, family guy etc. I think our product will appeal to Reiss as from the choice of music he likes we can see he is open to watch different types of thrillers and our film like many of the programmes he watches the characters are around the same age and similar profiles so he will be able to adapt to our characters.

This is Marian Hassan, She is 18 years of age and lives in Dagenham.
She listens to a few music genres such as R&B, rap and pop. Marian likes to take care of her image and occasionally dresses in trendy clothing. She shops in places like H&M and River Island, urban outfitters, New Look, and Topshop. She enjoys TV programmes such as desperate housewives, Hollyoaks, Eastenders, 90201, America's Next Top Model, gossip girl. I think our film would appeal to Marian as she like Reiss can relate in some way to the film, she is also around the same age as Jessica the victim so our film will be appealing to her. The fact that she watches Eastender and Hollyoaks shows how it can appeal with the drama and action taking place.

6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
During the process of our media product, I was assigned as the director. Within the editing suit we assisted the editor as he used technologies such as Final Cut Pro, we were able to improve the shots that we had filmed by using the software and we were able to portray conventions of thriller and going against typical thriller conventions.

In the filming process we encountered some difficulty which was a benefit on our behalf as we learnt from the mistakes we made, which gave a variety of shots to choose from in the editing suit. We first started by filming our preliminary task, this proved to be more difficult than expected because we had difficulties setting up the tripod and keeping it steady. Another problem we didn’t realise is that our group had recorded a preliminary task which we then discovered had broken the 180degree rule. Which meant we had to film all over again we did our preliminary task about three times before we got it right.

Other technologies that we used were blogger, youtube, photoshop, scribd, bubbl.us, cloud, yahoo, facebook, these were all were vital for the creation of our product for example blogger was useful to us as we were able to upload our progression, research and final product on it, i have learnt ow to upload data, change information, join blogs together and various other things just from using this software.

With the use of youtube i have learnt how to upload videos, embed them unto other sites this was very useful to us as it allowed a wider range of audience.

Photoshop was a very useful piece of technology as it allowed me to change images to suit me by cropping them, contrasting and the colour of the images.

Scribd was a software that i had used many times it basically made the work i do look up to a good standard as it is well presented.

I used bubbl.us for the brainstorm of our product it was very useful to me as it was a sufficient way of doing a mind map of our initial ideas and how they had evolved from then on.

Yahoo helped as with most things we need an email address to be able to sign up for various software's such as blogger,scribd, sound cloud etc.

The use of facebook made it easier for us to target our audience as it is a social networking site, i was able to link our blog to facebook so our audience can be able to access it and view our product.

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

Extreme close up

The use of an extreme close up connotes to the audience the important of the object, for example in jessica case her facial expression is important here as we see from this her desperation for melinda to hurry up and get her help.

Match on action

Match on action is a cut from one shot to another that matches the first shot, we used this in our product from the moment Melinda closes her front door to when Jessica closes the living room door to show a process of continuity.

Shot reverse shot

shot reverse shot happens when a character looks at one subject to another and then from the subject to the character, in our case we used a shot reverse shot as Melinda and Jessica are conversing looking from Jessica side to Melinda.

Establishing shot

An establishing shot is usual used at the beginning or end of a scene to establish a setting, we used this in our opening to establish Jessica exit.

Point of view

Point of view shot is used to see the point of view of a subject, we used it in our product it see the point of view of Jessica as she is searching for help.

Medium shot

A medium shot shows us the important things within a frame, in our preliminary we used a medium shot to show the conversation between two people.

Close up

Close up are used to show detail of something within a frame, within our preliminary we used a close up to show the detail of the subject typing on the keyboard.