Evaluation

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

The genre our media product was made in was horror; the product uses similar aspects that are common in horror films such as death, a killer, tense build ups and scary music. The product is based on a film called ‘When a stranger calls’ but is developed in a way where it appeals to a different audience. Instead of the use of a single girl character we have used two teenage males that live in a house together, one receives a phone call but thinks nothing of it so it comes as a shock when the death happens. In ‘When a Stranger Calls’ the audience is expecting a death so we have developed the idea of surprise in our media product.


· How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The media product focuses its attention on two students who both have jobs and are from a middle class background, this is represented by the house they live in and the way they are in the film. The house is located on an estate where it is common for people of middle class to live; they are neither wealthy nor poor and talk like the majority of people do with a common accent.


·Who would be the audience for your media product?

The target audience is males aged 15-25 as it contains two young students who they can relate to.


·How did you attract/address your audience?

The audience is attracted because they relate to these two students and will see some of themselves in the two characters. The audience is addressed mainly in the way the two characters behave and how they live, they are typical common students that the audience can relate to.


·What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

As a group we have learnt all of the different uses of the recording equipment and how different shots can give of different meaning and also how effective some are compared with others. We have learnt how to edit our footage, cut the things we don’t want and add things in for better effect.


·Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

As a group we defiantly developed our camera use skills, in the preliminary task our mistakes such as positioning of the characters in the shot and also the type of shot we used taught us a great deal and help our media product to become very satisfactory.