Evaluation Task 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation Task 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

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Evaluation Task 4 - Who is the target audience for our thriller?

The target audience for our thriller is mainly for 15-25 year olds, but older viewers may also enjoy it as they will probably know someone who has had a break-up similar to that, as the characters are fairly normal. The reason that younger viewers are more likely to identify with the characters is because they will definitely either have had firsthand experience of something like this or will know of many cases like it. This is due to their age, as it is fairly commonplace now for young people between the age of 15-18 to go through many boy/girlfriends in a year. Someone who would be likely to go and see this film would also tend to prefer independent films as opposed to Hollywood blockbusters, maybe because they want to be different, or because this is the sort of film that would have people swarming to go and see it, and this person would probably have a lot of spare time on their hands. They would tend to be more in to the whole emo scene, or be very alternative in their style, the kind of person who would enjoy a dark film about revenge and holding a deep grudge against someone for years.

The viewer would also have to have an interest in indie films, because it is not shot in a regular way. We break the 180 degree rule numerous times, and this will make it very disorientating for the viewer, possibly even to the point that the audience may feel sick. However until the editing is finished we won’t know quite what effect that will have on the audience and at this stage we are still aiming for a dark feel to the film. Even though the room is well lit, the theme behind the story is menacing, and once Ellie gets over her initial rage, it turns to scheming. The rapidity of the opening is what will keep the audience interested, each shot is about 1-2 seconds long, the jumps between locations will make the audience uncomfortable and the difference in sound will be highly noticeable. In her room she is going insane, breaking things, and screaming whereas the only emotions we get from him are a mixture of relief and stress, with the only sounds coming from him being calm and subdued. The only weaknesses I can see so far in our thriller are that I think the lighting is different in each location which could potentially confuse the audience, as we shot in the Turrets at around 3-4 o’clock, so we were already losing light.

Evaluation Task 3 - What kind of media institution would distribute our media product and why?

I think the sort of company that would distribute our film would be an smaller independent institution such as Warp Films, but it could also be a lager studio as many audiences would identify with the characters. The rest of the film would explain their violent break-up, and then be about how she plans her revenge on him, going slightly psychopathic along the way.

The film would be fairly low-budget, so attractive to most independent film companies, but some larger studios may also want to distribute it as it would be a low risk gamble. Therefore it wouldn't be disastrous if it didn't sell particularly well, but there are many low budget films that have gone on to be money-trees that make a profit of more than 10 times their budget. Also it may provide a larger company with ideas for more films along this line, or maybe to use the same actors again in some of their bigger films if it sold well.

Evaluation Task 2 - How does your product represent particular social groups?

I would say that our product represents a social group that has a very similar background to the majority of the people immediately around us, that is the middle classes. We chose this group as the majority of the population in England fall into this broad category and we wanted the audience to be able to identify with both the characters.

We wanted the audience to initially feel as if both characters were perfectly normal and could easily be your next door neighbour, and we achieved that through our choice of characters. The character of Ellie (acted by Rose) was intended to be a typical girl in her late teens, who feels that life is going well for her until her boyfriend Matt (acted by Jake) decides to cheat on her. This scenario is a very familiar one, we all know of a guy somewhere who has cheated on a girlfriend or wife, and we wanted Matt to represent this type of person, somebody who uses their charm to their advantage, but are soon bored and will move on quickly. It is difficult to give an idea of what a typical person should look like, as it really doesn’t matter so long as they don’t have any particularly striking features. 

Usually in the media our chosen social group are the victims of accidents, crime and other unpredictable events as they are the majority population in this country. The idea of remaining anonymous has also been largely played with in films such as The Bourne Identity and Unknown. This is the sort of thing we are trying to represent, the idea that anyone, even somebody you think you know well, could suddenly flip.