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

Make notes in here on the conventions of real opening sequences AND your chosen genre that you have tried to use in your product.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?Make notes in here on what the people in your productions seem to be like and what steps you took to make them seem this way.

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?Find out which film and magazine companies are responsible for distributing products similar and different to yours and make notes on your findings here.

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?Make detailed notes in here on who you think your target audience is – be more specific than sex and age.

The target audience for our media product would be suited for both male and female with the age certificate of the film being 15. The specific target audience would be for those that are already interested in the area of genre based on our film which is Thriller; this is because people that are fans of this genre will already be looking out for new films that come out in this genre section.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?Make notes in here on the techniques you used to appeal to your audience and why you think they would be effective.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?Make sure you cover research, planning and production in this section. What technologies have you used and how did they help?

As a group we used loads of different technologies for the construction of our film. One of the main technologies used being Google, the main reason for using Google being for research into different things within our film. One of these things being analysing different fonts from other film covers to discover a type of font that could fit into our cover like others for people to be able to establish that it’s a thriller before watching. As well as using Google, we used YouTube as one of our source of research; this allowed us to watch various clips from the same genre to be able to compare them to others of the same genre before incorporating our findings into our film piece. We also used YouTube to research a soundtrack for our film, this allowed us to listen to a number of different tracks before selecting one, we converted the file into an MP3 file.

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?Make notes on how your preliminary task helped you and how it made you aware of what more you would need to master to make your final product.

8. Approaches to your evaluationThinking about actually HOW you will present your evaluation, make notes in here on the different styles and approaches you might use and for which questions.

9. Extra/Additional InfoMake notes in here on advice you need and questions you have about your evaluation.