EVALUATION QUESTIONS

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


- Discuss the ways in which your thriller incorporates generic conventions, identify specific scenes.
- How does your thriller develop or challenge these conventions.
- Does the use of conventions indicate what sub-genre or hybrid genre your thriller is?
- Does your use of conventions indicate what other thrillers have influenced your work? If so, then be specific with examples.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
   
   
   - What are the social groups represented in terms of gender, age, class, race etc?
   -Is gender represented in a stereotypical way? i.e. men dominant and women passive.
   -How does this link into the target audience? (explore this fully in question four)
   
   
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
   
   
   - Would this be something that could be produced by a major Hollywood studio, if yes then why? Is it similar to existing productions?
   - Would it be a TV movie?
   - Would it be an arthouse film?
   - Would it be an internet release only?
   - Why would it be released? Does it offer opportunities for franchise and /or merchandising?
   - Link your conclusions to a discussion of the mise en scene (visual style) of your thriller.
   
   
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
   
   
   - Consider the age and gender of your target audience. Link this to the narrative and style of your film.
   - What other films are similar to yours, who did they appeal to?
   
   
5. How did you attract or address your audience?
   
   
   - Link this into your audience profile (i.e. what age and gender they are)
   - are there particular points in your film that would appeal to or particularly terrify a Certain age group or gender? If yes then explain them in detail.
   - Consider the use of camerawork in this section i.e. point of view shots.
   - Who is the audience asked to put themselves in the position of, what are they being allowed to witness?
   - What impact does that have?
   - Link this back to generic conventions and the creation of suspense.
   
   
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
   
   
   - Strengths and weaknesses of the camera equipment.
   - Salk about the filming process, was there problems you faced, how did you resolve those issues?
   - Did you get to use new equipment that enhances your thriller? i.e. the dolly.
   - Editing software- Premier Pro. What have you learnt about editing, where there particular effects that you found useful for creating your overall mise en scene?
   - Link in exact time points when you are talking about a specific bit of your product.
   
   
7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

- Discuss the planning stage, the research into genre, storyboarding, creating the anamatic  and explain how this detailed planning helped you to produce a thriller. i.e. you knew what shots you need to capture and what order to edit it in. this helps the process to be smoother.
- Has your use of specific shot types improved? i.e. match on action, point of view.
- Do you feel more confident with the equipment?
- How successful do you feel your end product is as fulfilling the task? (look back at the main blog at the task).