Evaluation Questions

Question 1: How does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Inspiration: We also took inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock and his film “Marnie” and also the 1995 thriller “Se7en”. In the opening of both films the audience don’t see the faces of the two separate characters in each sequence and therefore aren’t able to identify them, asking questions of who are they? What are they doing? Why are they doing it? etc this then builds up tension because of this enigma.

Genre: The first indication that our film is a thriller is that of an over the shoulder shot where we see the stalker taking a picture and staring at the girl in the café, this sets up the first enigma as to why he is staring at the girl and also the fact that we cannot see who the character stalker her is. Other thrillers that have used this shot include “Silence of the Lambs” and also “Resevoir Dogs”

Continuety: Many box office films have staff who specialise in continuety and check through everything in the scene rigerously before everything is perfect as one blip could ruin not only this scene but the movie itself. continuety is an important thing upon creating a film to convince the viewer that they are viewing a contineous shot. Inorder to do this you have to considor many different factors such as the apprearence of the characters, the background and also the lighting for example have remain the same throughout each shot.

Intercutting: In our opening we have used a technique called intercutting which is common in the film industry and especially in thrillers, we got the idea for intercutting from the film “Se7en” which also uses it in it’s opening.

Font: The font title we have used in the film is incidentally called “pipeing” which is similar to that of our film title “Pipeline” we feel that this gives the film more of an identity. The choice of a solid black background also makes the white font standout more as it’s two contrasting colours, the colour has connotations of death and mystery which is also associated with fear and the unknown.

Production Logo: All flms have the production companys that they use at the start of the opening to the film this is a very convetional structure when making a movie, the most famous examples are that of “Universal”, “Warner Brothers” and “Dreamworks”. We decided too call ours MJWL Productions using the first letter of each of our names and combigning them together.

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

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

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Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

 Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

We have done this in many ways, we exampled this though Mise en scene. In our Mise en scene we thought about the clothes we wore, we wore clothes that would appeal to a young adult audience and I think that this helped establish the modern setting also appealing to the young adult audience. Also the setting in the town hall was useful as the town hall is quite a modern looking place and make it look like a fresh new up to date film making it more likely to be watched.

Though the Cinematography we used shots that were fast and choppy these helped keep a fast pace for a young and fast audience. We also used lots of suspense building shots. We also had a lot of quick editing making it look very snappy and adding to the suspense.

Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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