THRILLER FILM EVALUATION By Alvin Lane

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

• We have taken a lot of inspiration from American Psycho, which starts with a voice over during the leads morning routine just like ours. We have also taken inspiration from Requiem For a Dream and Shaun Of The Dead for editing with the hip-hop montages, it cuts so fast that complex or normally long process are only a few seconds long. We also took inspiration from clockwork orange for the long extended shots. Our film challenges the conventions of thrillers as it is not psychological and instead relies on its action and mystery to create a tense atmosphere.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• Our films lead character is a teenager and is shown to have a double life. It challenges people’s perceptions of teenagers as at first you might look at the character and think he is just a “normal teenager” but it is revealed that he is a very accomplished criminal. People may not be able to relate to this master criminal but I think they would like to. There is also a spilt personality theme throughout the film; we took inspiration from the gothic novel Jekyll & Hyde.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

• We would enter our film in a small local indie film festival such as Camden International Film Festival; if successful we would enter it into a larger indie film festival like Sundance which would give it enough recognition to become a large indie film. Darren Arronofsky is an example of this sort of publicity with his first film Life Of Pi winning awards at Sundance with a low budget and becoming a widely known film.

• Who would be the audience for your media product?

• The audience of our film would be mainly targeting teenagers as we feel like they would enjoy it more and be more interested because the main character is of the same age. However it would also appeal to most indie film goers. Due do some violent scene during the film we would estimate that the BBFC would give our age rating 12a. If our film ever did make it on to TV it would be after the watershed because we wouldn’t want a minor watching it thinking its ok and get then get scared.

How did you attract/address your audience?

• Because were aiming to a teenage audience we would advert our film on social media such as YouTube and Facebook, it is also cheap as we could upload trailers in the hopes of making it viral. Because teenagers use social media quite a lot we would hope that they become brainwashed.

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

• We have learnt how to use the canon xf100, a rode mic for the voice over. We used available light and ambient light, so we did not have a lighting rig. We also used a range of software, editing in final cut pro x, we also used cinema 4d to create the clip for the main title to go over. I also used adobe premiere pro to edit my production company logo video

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

When me and Thomas where doing our preliminary task there was not anyone around to be are actors so we had to film and act in it, which was very hard because when we were lining up the shot reverse shot because we didn’t have anyone to tell us if we were in shot or not. Because we had to do everything twice me and Thomas learnt a lot about the equipment and how to use it correctly