Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this media product?

Evaluation: Question 5) How did you attract/ address your target audience?

Evaluation Question 5:  How did you attract/address your target audience?

 

While carrying out various researches into thrillers and their audiences, It was important that I found out what people like to see within a thriller film, this would allow my group to target our audience and meet their expectations of a thriller film. To successfully do this, we created a questionnaire as we believed it was an effective way of retrieving useful feedback.

From this, I saw that the target audience of thriller films were in the age groups from 15-30 year olds and were both genders. Thriller movies tend to target people who are extraverts, thrill seekers and those who are quite interested in the horror genre.

Creating a questionnaire was very useful as it was easy to keep a record, and helped us collect reliable results from people among our target audience; this also helped because we knew what to add and show to appeal to the target audience.

The most important question I asked was “What themes do you expect to be used most in thriller films? E.g. Revenge, Death…” This question was important as it allowed me to get a better understanding into what themes people expect to see most. This then gave me the opportunity to add or incorporate these into my thriller. 

 

This is some of the feedback I’ve collected:

Sahara (Female, 19): ‘I really enjoyed the narrative of this film; it was really interesting’. This helped me understand that our narrative was fairly clear and could be understood.

Zack (Male, 18): ‘Awesome, I enjoyed the whole thing’. This also helped me understand that we had met the audience expectation.

Britney (Female, 16): ‘I would’ve liked to know what happened to the female victim’. This showed me that I could’ve added something to the narrative to make it a bit more interesting.

Michael (Male, 17): “It’s quite confusing; the antagonist came out of nowhere”. This helped me realise slight faults within the narrative.

 

Final Product: Its Not Over (AS Media Thriller Opening)

above is my final product

Evaluation question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Question 3 What kind of media institution might distribute your product and why?

Evaluation Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Planning: Character Representations

Planning: Character Representations

 

In Thriller movies certain characters hold different purposes and give the story meaning. Characters need to be read and understood by the audience.
Character's representation are how each character is being presented in a film production towards the audience. It is important because having the right actors to play the roles that are suitable based on how they look and their acting skills can create a lot of different meanings and will be based on the audience to judge on the characters. It is also includes different personalities within the characters in a film as the audience will have their own connotations and view points on each of the characters. This will helps the viewers to decide whether he or she is a good character or if they like them or not.

Character's representation can be shown through body language, facial expressions, voice tone and appearance that need to be relatable towards the narrative

 

Victim- In our thriller the character of the victim will be played by a young white female, this is because through research I found that this was stereotypical and conventional to the thriller genre. It is stereotypical because a young white female possesses characteristics which show her as quite timid and weak, therefore the audience will also expect them to behave like this therefore have sympathy towards them.

 

NAME: Carlie Cokell

AGE: 15
GENDER: Female
ROLE IN THE FILM: Female Victim
COSTUME:
FACIAL EXPRESSION: Blank/ Clueless
BODY LANGUAGE:

From important research, I found that representing my female victim in this way was conventional because the stereotype shown is that women are weaker than man and that they are feeble and helpless.












Antagonist- In my thriller I will be playing the role of the antagonist, I am a black male 6 foot 1 in height with an athletic build. I am filling this role because conventional antagonists have a rough build or frame similar to mine, this will make the character of the antagonist even more intimidating and fit the conventions of a thriller film

NAME: Javel Robinson
AGE: 19

GENDER: Male
ROLE IN THE FILM: Psychotic Ex-Boyfriend
COSTUME: White T-Shirt, Black Jeans, Black Jacket/ Hoody
FACIAL EXPRESSION: Distressed/ Disturbed
BODY LANGUAGE: