Final Blog Entry

Final Blog Entry

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

It is hard to compare our end thriller product to a real media product as they are so contrasting as we did not use high production values such as; the budget, the casting and the equipment. When shooting a real media project the budget is very high and does not necessarily have a limit to it. Our media group had a set budget which had a rough limit. Although the different film industries also contrast in price values.
When it comes down to casting Hollywood use the actors that are A-list to confirm audience views. So by using a famous actor that is well known it ensures a higher audience, where as we were unable to use any A-list celebrities or qualified actors there for leaving us with what we could get which did a great job at we were asking them for.
The independent film industries spend millions on equipment e.g. lighting, camera and film. We did not spend millions on our equipment but used the school equipment. We used only two lights and one camera. This equipment was very efficient for what we needed.
Although there are so many contrasts between a real media product and our media product we tried our hardest to mimic how they would do it by following the industrial and technical conventions as much as possible.

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

Our media product does not deal with any particular social group but the main character in our product does deal with affluent social class, this is because he is in a grand house. But there is no explicit discussion of any distinct social groups in our product. However it does deal with gender issues such as a reverse of character. As men generally have the stereotype of being fearless, our main character does not re-enforce this stereotype.

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

As our product is not grand and does not have high budget production values or high level special effects because of this it would be un-lightly that our product would be a Hollywood institution but would be more along the lines of and independent British film company e.g. WARP
Refer back to: ‘Discussion of what institution would produce our film’

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

Refer back to: ‘Account of you target audience’

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

We attracted our audience by gratifying there expectations and requirements. As our target audience would be the older generation of males we would show some female nudity. The film would also show destruction and violence.

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

I have learnt a great deal about technology from the process of constructing this product, I have learnt about mise-en-scene, sound, camera’s, lighting and editing. I now know how to work with all of these tools in depth.
Refer back to: Other Blog entries.

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

Refer back to: ‘Overview and evaluation of the finished product’