Evaluation questions

Evaluation Questions

The following questions must be answered in your evaluation PowerPoint:

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

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

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

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

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

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

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

Audience

We decided that our film would have to be a 15 because it has themes of murder, but there are no guns, or sex, these are the normal guidelines for a 15

Discrimination

The work as a whole must not endorse discriminatory

language or behavior.

Drugs

Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not

promote or encourage drug misuse. The misuse of easily

accessible and highly dangerous substances (for example,

aerosols or solvents) is unlikely to be acceptable.

Horror

Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic

or sexualised.

Imitable behavior

Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and

self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be

copied. Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorized.

Language

There may be frequent use of strong language (for example,

‘fuck’). The strongest terms (for example, ‘cunt’) may be

acceptable if justified by the context. Aggressive or repeated

use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable.

Nudity

Nudity may be allowed in a sexual context but without

strong detail. There are no constraints on nudity in a

non-sexual or educational context.

Sex

Sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail.

There may be strong verbal references to sexual behavior,

but the strongest references are unlikely to be acceptable

unless justified by context. Works whose primary purpose is

sexual arousal or stimulation are unlikely to be acceptable.

Theme

No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is

appropriate for 15 year old.

Violence

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.

There may be detailed verbal references to sexual violence

but any portrayal of sexual violence must be discreet and

have a strong contextual justification.

Comparing characters

The main character in our opening is much like the main character in Donnie Darko he has gone a little insane and hears the voice of "Frank" the bunny, in our opening the main character hears the voice of his dead daughter.

The victim in our opening follows some of the conventions of the character e.g. He is wearing white which shows purity and innocence, you don't see that he has done anything wrong so it leaves you wondering why he is being attacked. Our victim is male which contrasts to the stereotypical damsel in distress by changing it from female to male.

• We thought that you held the shots steadily all the way through were appropriate.
• We liked the way you did different angles during the scenes in the church and and the way you did closer ups and different distance shots.
  
• We thought your thriller material contained a lot of thriller conventions and we liked the way you used them in your footage.
  
• We really liked the fact you made your flashback footage in black and white, it really went with the theme of a thriller with a hint of eerieness. The footage is all in a good light and sets the atmosphere well.
  
• The cuts were in good places and the scenes weren't too long which kept us interested.
  
• The sound was good, helped with the atmopshere, was a bit repetitive, but good. We thought the little girls voice was a bit creepy, but also a bit horror like.
  
• The title was a bit a random, but then we didn't really understand what the narrative was clearly. The beginning title and the end title... the ends were cut off, didnt understand why?
  

Final on Youtube

A coffee in the morning analysis

Overall we are pleased with our final product, there was not much to change after our rough cut, it was mostly the music and extension/speed/colour of the shots. We also changed the music so the contrapuntal music was taken out completely, and the music is made to blend into the situation more. We also removed the environmental sounds of the flashbacks, as the birds in the background do not go with the dark feeling of the scene. At first you could hardly hear the voiceover, so we decided to make the background music lower and the voiceover louder, although it is still not totally audible it is better.

A coffee in the morning-Screen shots

Final

Feedback for our thrillers

Mise en scene.

-Appropriate locations

-Very spooky

-Good editing on the location, black and white.

-Psychological parts created by repeated scenes of ascending church

Camerawork

-Good close ups, Makes the audience want to know more, Pans of church gives good sense of location

-The punch was good with front and back views.

Sound

-Music cuts, Scary music goes with stereotypical thriller location

-Music is varied to much, goes from intense to normal

-Unclear voices, music randomly changes.

Editing

-Good how the production title comes up at the beginning.

The black and white parts bring a nice contrast.

-Good white fade

Rough cut

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4/3/10 Editing

Today we edited a majority of our thriller opening sequence, we edited for 15 minute intervals one at a time. Each having ago at cutting, colour correcting and putting our sequence into a recognizable order. We had flash backs in our piece so we changed the colour of them and the present.