Keegan's Evaluation Q6

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

At the start of this project, I had never used or even heard of Final Cut Pro before and that I only knew the basics of using a HD video camera. 

Final Cut Pro, for me, was the most I have learnt throughout this project. I am now able to edit clips together smoothly and add in sound and effects for it to look more professional and clean. I think the most useful thing I have learnt is that you should keep all similar clips together and all different medias, this will allow you to save a lot of time instead of rummaging through all the clips to find the specific one that you are wanting to add/edit.

Keegan's Evaluation Q5

How Did You Attract/Address Your Audience?

We have attracted the audience by referencing the characters on modern trends that the audience can relate to such as the clothes that characters are wearing have been bought from local high street retailers which a large number of the audience also get their clothes from.  

Keegan's Evaluation Q4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

I believe that the target audience for out thriller opening would be teenagers and young adults as it is based on people of their age. This helps them to connect with the opening as some of the audience may refer to the actions taking place and the consequences after. 

Keegan's Evaluation Q2

How does your media product represent particular social groups? 

The main characters we have chosen are two teenaged boys called Jake and Kyle. Most teenagers are lazy and rather rude stereotypically whereas we have decide to show them as the more helpful teenagers that are rarely shown within thriller films.

The first teenager, called Kyle, is a friend of the main character (Jake) that the film is based around. Kyle is shown as a helpful friend that will happily help his friends if they were need. Kyle is also shown as a clever teenager which is shown when he takes control of sorting out the boxes in the loft. 

The second teenager and the main character, Jake, is played as a rather shaken person which may be because of his past of his father being murdered. Jake is also shown as a friendly, grateful person as he appreciates his friends help despite the silly question of 'Where's the loft?'. 

Keegan's Evaluation Q1

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

Throughout the thriller project, we have been looking at a range of different thriller openings such as Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction and Inception. I noticed that in the wide range of films, that a large number have a sense of darkness or very low lighting.

The Low lighting helps create the sense that a thriller should have, that being the deep suspense thought of anything could suddenly happen at any time and the mystery behind the story of what has happened. The suspense helps keep the audience involved with the rest of film by keeping them asking questions which cannot be answered straight away. 

We added a sense of darkness into our thriller by having low lighting on jake's face when he opens the box to find his father's possessions. The use of low lighting makes the audience wonder on how the character could possibly react and how it will have an effect on all the other characters in the same sequence. We also added a piece of music to this shot which has a dark atmosphere feel to it which helps create a sense of confusion and anger.