Evaluation

Evaluation

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? For this task, I had to research other films that already existed and see how well they did within the film industry. The two I looked at weren’t well known, however, Cujo is originally a book.

How does your media product represent particular social groups? My film doesn’t have a specific social group it is related to. What we have created is only two minutes and involves a single human character. If this were to continue on, I would say that the social groups would be difficult to choose from.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? Companies that produced such things as the Saw films include Entertainment Film Distributors and Lions Gate Films. Entertainment Film Distributors (EFD) distributes other horror films which mean that they could be interested. They have distributed other horror films such as Halloween II and The Final Destination.

Who would be the audience for your media product? I would say my film would be aimed at people who enjoy horror films – mainly teenagers. However, the product would be aimed at a wide range of people. I would certify my film as a 15.

How did you attract/address your audience? For my audience feedback, I put my final product onto Facebook and YouTube and allowed friends, family and others. I attracted my audience by leaving a brief outline and let that draw them in.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product? I have learnt that a lot of work goes into creating a film and that it isn’t just as easy as filming. The editing was difficult and took its time, along-side finding copyright audio. The screenplay and shooting script go into great depth about how the film will be, however, they never turn out exactly how you planned for it to be.

Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? The preliminary task allowed us all to find out how it works and gave us a push. The preliminary task was our taster on how this main task would be. For this preliminary, we were able to use our imagination and create anything we wanted to, and therefore it would be easier to think for our main task.