Questions.

1) in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge conventions of real life media products? highlight differences/similarities between your product and two other films you have analysed

Answer to Question 1: We focused on the dolly shot for our film, this convention was taken from the film 'panic room'. this worked out well for us we got the mysterious atmosphere from the shot that we wanted. we had short shots whilst the dolly shot was going to again give the mysterious style atmosphere. this convention is best compared to the film 'seven', where they had random shots of photo's, blood and comeone cutting their fingertips off.

2) how does your media product represent social groups?

Answer to Question 2: We didn't represent a particular social group in our film. but it could be said that the antagonist used to happy, and this change could have happened because of a traumatic experience.

3) what kind of media instituion might distribute your production? how have your ideas changed?

Answer to Question 3: I think 'New Line Cinema' would distribute our film because they are a small company. they distributed the film 'seven' which has the same conventions as our film. recently new line cinema merged with Warner brothers which is a major distributor. This is good as Warner Brothers would promote out film really well as they're a big time company. This is all because our film looks a lot more professional than we thought it'd look, we got this suggestion from our questionnaires feedback. to sum it up, we will have mainstream cinema's, good marketing strategy and high production values.

4) who would be the audience for your media product ? how did your target audience respond?

Answer to Question 4: The audience for our film would be people who enjoy thrillers and young people in general, from 12 year old's to 21 year old's. Our target audience from our feedback responded positively so we know we have achieved our targets in audience. Alternative audiences from our feedback also gave us good feedback. This is a good sign as it shows our film can be enjoyed by other types of audiences.

5) how did you attract adress your audience? refer to questionnaires.

Answer to Question 5: We attracted our audience by doing things like filming in a school and having believable props like clothes. this makes the whole situation easier to relate to for our audience. Our target audience we're happy with our film which again shows that we achieved that target. this means that we did attract our audience well.

6) what have you learned about technologies while doing your production?

Answer to Question 6: The main technologies we used in our production we're camera's ( the Canon 550 & the XM2 ) Blogger and final cut pro. i think blogger was the most useful and user friendly technology as it was easy to view my groups blogs and it was easy to upload and edit my posts. my posts are then reviewed by my teacher who gives me pointers on how to improve my work. that is why i think it was the most useful. The camera's we used we're very good cameras. they we're high quality and didnt take long to upload on the mac book pros. the only complaint i have with the cameras is the battery life and the memory capacity, these two problems caused us to break our schedule whilst filming. finally final cut pro was the most professional piece of technology we used but it was also the hardest to use. but we have trained to use it and get used to its control so we can do whatever like to the video. its high performance in quality makes up for its complexity. so once we we're familiar with the program, it was very very useful for our production.

7) looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product? how did the preliminary task help you to realise a better quality in your main task?

Answer to Question 7: I learnt through our preliminary to our final production that it requires better planning for example schedules etc. the better quality in my final production was because i tried a wide range of shots in the preliminary like high angle shots, low angle shots, zoom, point of view and over shoulder. i also used a shot in the corner of the top a room to imitate a surviellance camera. this helped me in my final production as it helped me pick the shots that we're most effective to achieve our goal.