Media Evaluation 23/03/2015

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

There are many ways in which my thriller opening uses challenges and develops real life media products. Having done this has helped me understand how certain aspects work in the media industry and helped me apply it to my thriller opening. Within my production process I have used various media platforms, inspiration from other films and TV shows and conducted a lot of research to make the best thriller opening possible.

I have used other real life media products to make my thriller opening. Throughout the production process I have used professional and non-professional music to determine what would be the best way to make and create my music piece. Looking at other music gave me a wider knowledge of what other thriller music sounds like and how I can improve mine. I found three pieces of music that I liked that were created by professionals from the media industry and I thought that if I merged them together I should find the perfect music. My target audience is 16+ so I needed to keep my audience interested, I decided to make sure it was upbeat that then changed dramatically to symbolise the downfall of the protagonist. However this wasn’t the case and I decided just too just stay with the music that I made. I catered for my older audience members because I wanted to keep them interested and thought that fast pace music would keep them interested. I had to used a vary of other thriller openings to build my thriller opening and use inspiration to keep my audience engaged. These are examples of other real life media products and became helpful in the production process of my thriller opening. I also used social media as a way to platform my thriller opening to gain a large audience but this again allowed me the chance to use other real life media products like social media and because it’s free I had the best chance at having a large audience.

I develop forms of actually media products because I took the idea of other films and TV shows and based my thriller opening around the work of others. Doing this allowed me to a range of media platforms that gave my opening the chance to be the best opening it could be. The storyline is based upon BBC thriller dramas, this is an example of a media product that has helped my understanding of how to make thriller films and use the media industry to my advantage. From using Facebook, Youtube and Soundcloud I have used the feedback I gained from that I develop those points I got and adapted them to fit my thriller opening, further demonstrating that I was using media products to make the best thriller opening. I was constantly developing what I already had and using it to my advantage like adapting everything I had based upon research that I had done and interpreting it for example when I handed out questionnaires to find my perfect target audience and questionnaires based on my rough cut, this made it easy for me to then make the perfect thriller opening. Lastly using apps on the Apple MAC computers like final cut allowed for my editing of my thriller to be in a very high quality.

I didn’t challenge any real media products because I needed them in order to make my thriller because I didn’t know how to make an opening without them. The only thing I did challenge was the fact that I didn’t go for the conventional thriller storyline and based it on the more dramatic storylines of a young girl going missing, I thought this would challenge myself into making a dramatic storyline and adapting it to the thriller genre.

Media Evaluation 23/03/2015

1. This image is from Broadchurch this will link to our thriller because we will use two characters throughout the opening and we will know we will have two detectives in the night shots. In this opening the characters are stereotypically dressed like detectives in our opening they are hidden so all you see is the blue glove.

2. This is the typography used for our inspiration Mayday, I liked how the red could connote danger and how it is wrote almost childlike, this could link to their main character of a teenage girl. I decided that I would use red in my thriller opening of the title because it was relating to the danger in my opening. I like how it seems like it is dripping blood suggesting that she has been killed.

3. From the BBC drama The Missing, this is a draw that is used throughout the opening and during the series because it relates to this little child going missing, in our thriller we decided to use various childlike games to link the main characters to the mental state of a young child as she doesn’t look like a child. I like how this is continuous throughout the series because it is constantly reminding the audience that this is a child who has gone missing.

4. This is the young boy who is killed in Broadchurch, the idea of this is to make the audience realise that this isn’t you conventional thriller opening because you don’t usually see children in thriller openings. The child is wearing red which shows that he will be associated with danger and death in the series, giving the audience an insight to what will happen.

5. This is the main opening to Mayday, the fairy-tale sense allows the audience to link children to thrillers. The colours used in the opening are unconventional of what a thriller looks like as you don’t usually have greens and yellow, usually blue and red, the colours used make it harder for the audience to guess the genre of the film.

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6. This image again is linking back to the child and how he has gone missing but because this is drawn somewhere else it allows the audience to track his disappearance because he has gone missing in a different country, the tracking of the boy make it easier for the audience to understand what fully happens in the series.

7. The natural setting of outside links the audience to another possible death of the child, as it is surrounded by water, the location for Broadchurch makes the audience feel like this is a real life thing going on because it is constantly looking at how reality perceive death and disappearance.

8. This high-vis jacket makes the audience realise that this is a missing person and that she is missing and can looking for the reflecting light. I liked this idea a lot so used the jacket in my opening however it isn’t very clear in the camera as it is quite hard to light up in dark lighting.

9. The hand grabbing onto the gate suggests that someone is trying to break free and this links to how the child is missing and somebody is looking for him and this could possibly be him and that he trapped behind someone or something, I like this shot and did attempt something like this but it wasn’t very good so decided to take it out.

1. This is an establishing shot of my thriller opening I used this because I wanted my audience to know that I have set my thriller outside and that it leads the audience to question what the intentions of the film are. I took this idea

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from Broadchurch as in their opening it uses this kind of shot to allow the audience to know where it is set.

2. My production logo is in a pink/red colour we have done this in order for the typography to match the colour of the female characters costume. This is conventional of a thriller because they usually use blues and black so we balanced it out by having a black background.

3. This is to show who are main character is and is to show she is only a young girl, this is shown through her physical features and how she is dressed in a red/pink dress which connotes to the danger that she could be in potentially.

4. This is a shot of the girl playing, this is too make the film opening realistic because we don’t want it to become too stereotypical of a girl playing, this specific shot is accompanied by the girl playing hop scotch, we added these scenes because we wanted it to become very apparent that she is a young girl.

5. This is the first time we see the headband that will be a link between the girl and the disappearance, we used the idea of the bbc drama The Missing to allow the audience to have this link between the girls’ disappearance, the specific close-up of the headband is for the audience to remember the importance of this shot.

6. This shot is for the audience to know that she is being lured into something through the balloon being placed around this tree. This idea challenges usual thriller films as it is usually obvious who is trying to take who but this leaves the audience wondering who has left this.

7. The first shot of her running is to show that she is trying to escape someone through the use of her running. The continuous direction allows the audience to track her disappearance this has been adapted from the idea of the missing and how everything about the boy travels in the direction of the right, this is similar to what we have done.

8. The night shots are to show that they are wanting to find this girl or this girl is lost, as we don’t know who it is behind the torches. This is similar to Mayday as you see the lights reflecting of the car and this is to symbolise someone is looking for her. This is conventional of thrillers because they expect someone to be looking for a person.

9. This is to show of our typography, I chose a simplistic type of writing because it wouldn’t take away from the action behind the screen, I liked the colour red because it connotes both death and danger both of which are hinted at in my thriller opening.