Question 3

Question- What kind of media institution might disturbs your media product and why?

The distribution company that we decided to chose was Film Four because they produce and distribute films, also as they pick films that aren't known very well or films that aren't made by big companies like Warner Brothers. So there will be more chance that our film gets picked by them than if i send my film to a big company then there would be less chance that it would get picked.

The way that i feel would be best for my film would be to put it straight to cinema because that way I’ll be making some money from it but then after a while ill will put it on DVD as people like thrillers so they might decide to buy it and keep it.





My reason for distributing the film like that is because i feel like that way it will make some money but also it will go up the chain slowly, also get people to buy the film. Also another reason for me choosing to put it in the cinema is because when you watch something in the cinema you get a different feeling than you would if you were watching at home. As in the cinema you have the surround sound that makes you feel like you part of the film.

If I was to put my thriller on the internet first then that would be a bad idea because no knows about it yet so it won’t get that many views, but if I was to distribute my movie in cinema first then people that like thrillers will go to watch it. And they will take there friends along and if they like it then they’ll tell other people to go watch it getting more views. Also the technology in cinema would help as well because with surround sound it makes more exciting to watch.

Question 2

How does you Media product represent particular social groups?

My film in Particular represents Gender as the male in my film is being represented as the bad people as both male show that they have anger problem but only one person is truly powerful in the film and the girl is an easy target. This is representing male dominance as the girl gets lured into the trap you hear the girl scream showing that she is weak.

Also these two kids were friends but the boy becomes a psycho and goes on a killing spree.

Young people in our film are shown differently as one person has no felling as they are the psycho and the normal person is the person that has a heart as they go to check it out. But in our film they are shown in a positive and a negative way as some teenagers have no feelings for other like the killer. But some teenagers are just looking for a good time as the girl picks up a poster thinking it’s a good sporting event.

In this scene you see that our antagonist wears a long jacket and that represents the goths. You can see this because he is in all black and also on the inside of his jacket is the color red and that represents danger and blood. 

In this screen shot you can see that the victim in normal everyday cloths and at one one point goes to put her head down, showing that is scared this represents the quiet children that get bullied a lot and get into difficult situation. 

Question 1

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

My film is about a psycho who used to be normal but ended up becoming who he is and kills or hurts people for fun thinking its normal.

The conventions of a Thriller Genre stuff like Enigma, Macguffin and Red Hearing. An Enigma is a puzzle that films makers like Alfred Hitchcock likes to put in his films as he likes to challenge his audience. A MacGuffin is when the Director makes a situation and leaves the audience think that's the problem and and the whole story goes later to find out that thats not the problem as its something else. And a Red Herring is a rhetorical question. Knowing this knowledge we decided to put a MacGuffin in our film as we thought to put a a situation in the film.


I would say that our film is a bit similar to most thriller as it has a psycho just like most thriller's do. Also it has a innocent person that cant help her self and doesn't what is going on.        

These Two images are similar as you see both of them looking at the camera very scary. This is what gave us inspiration to have a scene like that in our film. We decided to use this because in these shots you can see that they are scary and a psycho. With our film we zoomed into the psycho face to show his face and who he is. The hair style was also inspired as we wanted to make the hair as messy as possible just like Michael  Jackson's hair in his video Thriller.

 

Here is another scene which is the same because you both victims walking away from the camera. This is also gave us inspiration because is most thrillers you see the victim walking away in some way. The similarities between the two is that they both have a bag. 

Thriller Conventions

These are the Thriller Conventions below,

Our Ident

This is our Production company that we chose and we worked on it using livetype.

location and pictures

We went out and took pictures of the location that we are going to be filming in.
                              

 These are two pictures of the location we decided to film at. As you can see it is dark which is good fro the film.

Script

Fade in:

Our production name followed by the film title in yellow on a black background.

killer- enters the park and leaves a note on the tree

innocent girl- finds note and reads it