Q4: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms of conventions of real media products?

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

Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

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

The Call is a similar film to ours as they both have a teenage protagonist and middle aged antagonist. They both have similar features like being taken into a room/house in the woods. 

The Call:

• It was directed by Brad Anderson who is a film director, writer and producer. He is most known for horror and thriller films like The Machinist and Session 9. 
• It achieved one award as well as being nominated for 10 others.
• According to Box Office the film was supposed to earn around $11-$12 million, on its opening weekend within three days it had earned $17 million. The film cost around $13 million to produce. Box Office takings exceeded $64 million.
• It is WWE Studios most commercially successful film to date even though the R rating narrowed down the audience.

As our film is UK made is would probably make a lot more than The Call made in the UK as it would be more known and better advertised as The Call is an American film, which is filmed in America with American actors and actresses like Halle Berry.

Q2: How does your media product represent different social groups?

How does your media product represent different social groups?

Q1: Who will be the audience for our media product?

Who will be the audience for our media product?

 

Using the 'YouGov' website we searched the types of audiences that would like our film by searching similar films. 

The Lovely Bones: From there study they found that women aged 40-49 who lived in either the North-East or Wales and were Conservative watched this film.

We argued that this is partially incorrect as we thought young females would enjoy this film more as it involves a young girl being the protagonist. However the majority of the time young females would watch it with their mother who most likely be in their 40's that's why we think the study is partially correct.

Final Opening Film

Week Commencing 8/12/14

Week Commencing 8/12/14

This week we showed our finishing product to our peers and teachers whom gave us feedback all of which was positive. Our teacher told us one thing that could be improved which was our titles. As we was unsure how to use the title settings we found this very difficult, the reason why she told us to change it was because they wasn't in a typical 'thriller' format therefor to improve it we changed the titles around to fit the conventional theme. Another improvement for the titles was that they wasn't all the same size and they were all scattered in different places over the scenes. To improve we moved the titles around and making them all similar sizes, we also put them in more of a fluent timing so they wasn't coming onto the screen at random times. Here is the film before we changed the titles around.

 

 

Once we changed the titles around we was finished with our opening scene.

Week Commencing 1/12/14

Week Commencing 1/12/14

Our aim for this week was to finish our film and editing. We planned for our film to be finished last week however there was too much to be done and we couldn't finish it in time as well we wanted to.
All the stuff that needs to be done this week is all the finishing touches that we feel will improve our film. These things included adding more sound effects, changing the order of where some clips come in. We originally had 'The Camp' title at the end of the opening scene with some music over the top however we felt it looked too much like a trailer therefor we put it at the beginning of the film, after 'Blackout Productions' but before 'A Katy Gopsill Film'.
There wasn't much to do this week as we more or less had completed the film we was just adding the final bits to it.