Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
In this question I will be talking about how my media product
Relates and use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product, I will be going through and evaluating my media product and how it what relate to a real media product.
A. Genre
When I first had conducted my research I had looked upon various types genres in all forms of target audience this was because just as any media product in the market they would want to spread there product to a wider-range of audience to get more views or even more revenue, this is a key media skill I had to focus upon because this style of the media was used in many genres.
Genre is linked to the attitude/behavior, events, themes and iconography. These conventions help to introduce the genre without the audience having not known the genre; these techniques are helpful in my own media product because it helped me see the representation of my own media product.
Genre is a key to films success, so from the beginning of development of my own product I had considered this and knew I had to work on it to make my product to some extent of a real media product, I had considered genre to be something that had research, I had a look at many times of genre but one specific genre was British gangster, the reason for this was because it was a genre that was favorite genre, so I had conducted that I had to do a more product orientated approach to my media product.
B. Narrative Structure
My media product was structured in the way of an original British film with a tale beginning leading up to a point of shock and then the story rewinds and begins again, this in the media is a way of introducing genre and a conventional structure and this allows the audience to identify the pattern of the media product.
My media product relates to many existing media products and this is because it has a closed narrative that allows the viewer to watch thaw beginning to the end because of the structure of media product, this will allow a better approach from the audience and will gain higher regards.
In our media product we had used many key structure skills that allowed us to gain a better feedback of some such which include:
² Cross cutting
² Flashbacks
² Parallel
² Action
C. Form
My opening sequence is a brilliant example of an opening sequence which contains features used in actual media products. One feature which I found interesting was the voice-over which helped to gain audience attention and just like any normal hit media product they will use this feature to introduce the story line.
D. Style
I believe my film has a certain vibe to it that makes it look more pre-mature in comparison to a actual media product the reason being was how our finished product was shown, the reason being in my opinion was the soundtrack, dialogue, camera work and editing techniques. These helped me identify what our media product; they helped bring a more relevance to the media product in comparison to an actual media product.
Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My media product was constructed towards our target audience, for it to target our target audience we had to evaluate our media product to push it towards representing particular social groups so; we had to focus on a particular area in which we would construct our film around.
My media product was many areas where it had focus on in representing particular social groups, but we had 2 main focuses Age and gender. These two representations are the main social groups in which actual media products look in to, we also had followed in them foot steps, we had conduced a questionnaire in which we conducted our results and had a giant step into our target representing social groups.
Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
My company is A.FSI Productions. My production company make films that show the viewers the truth about youngsters and kill off stereotypes and show them the true meaning behind everything, our production company looks to distribute films that have a passionate background.
- I had researched many distributors who would back the distribution of my film and that would promote it:
- l Revolver entertainment - They are an upcoming distributor which has produced many new films in the market so far and have been known so far to be successful
- l Lionsgate - They have been known to make films with my chosen genre and Lionsgate feel as a perfect suitors because of there history
- l Warner Brothers - Not only the success of Warner brothers, but the history of the company that has driven me to think that they will be a perfect company that could produce my film.
My film could be exhibited in a cinema because I believe it is built on the purpose to inspire and reform public opinion and views. I believe my film will be exhibited in cinema mainly because a film will commonly come into cinema before being shown else where
Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?
My media product has targeted audience from ages from 12-21 and the reason being because they are the most common ages that tend to view films in my particular genre. Our group had decided to target both male and female and with the taste to our media products genre.
My group hope to attract a broad audience because as any other media product they hope for big audiences for higher revenue and we hope to produce it nationally and if it gets more famous here we shall release it to more abroad countries.
Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?
As a group we had attracted our audiences with the art of appealing, which meant having to research and having to make questionnaires and gaining feedback from random audiences to see where we needed improvements so, we could gain attraction from our target audience.
I had researched and conducted about the chosen genre of my media product, that it had attracted viewers from it's editing techniques and a main thing I found in this genre was that it would have a certain part where enigma is at a high and it will interest viewers to addresses the film in a way where they are more engaged.
A major way I had attracted my audience was choosing a popular genre and this was an advantage because popular genres tend to gain more viewers and help to address audience much better.
Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?
As a group we had attracted our audiences with the art of appealing, which meant having to research and having to make questionnaires and gaining feedback from random audiences to see where we needed improvements so, we could gain attraction from our target audience.
I had researched and conducted about the chosen genre of my media product, that it had attracted viewers from it's editing techniques and a main thing I found in this genre was that it would have a certain part where enigma is at a high and it will interest viewers to addresses the film in a way where they are more engaged.
A major way I had attracted my audience was choosing a popular genre and this was an advantage because popular genres tend to gain more viewers and help to address audience much better.
Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Technologies that we had used in this project I had already used and had knowledge of them from the past, this was a major boost because I didn't have many problems with the equipment or technology we were handed to use.
However, there were times in which we were stuck and this `was because we came across random errors in which we had quality issues, which meant we had gone wrong somewhere in the process, but it only made us learn from our mistakes and make us stronger as a group.
If I was to pass advice from all this I would say is, make sure you listen and take in everything that is said because a small part you missed could make a big problem with your entire project.
In my opinion I found it a benefit that I had knowledge with these technologies but there were some places were we as a group needed improvement working with, however it made us see what we benefited from and so we worked on that harder.
The software we never had problem with because it was up to date and the best we could use so we never had problems and this benefited us greatly because it meant we would have less time stressing on smalls things and more time to work on major things.
The use of hardware was not much of a difficulty but there were problems we came across but as a group we tackled the problems and made the process of constructing our product easier.
In this whole project of constructing our final media product I have learnt to use what we have been given more appropriately and to work with the time we have such as non linear editing which helped give us a time to fiddle and learn and use something new such as fades and transitions.
To conclude I have learnt that technologies are a very complex thing to use and if not used in the right manor you could have a lot of problems in your hand. I had personally enjoyed using certain technology like camera and garage band.
Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full Product?
The preliminary task helped me get to know the people in my group and to work as a group; this had built a stronger bond between us. The editing process was the part I most enjoyed because we had a laugh in editing and pointing out one another’s mistakes and places were we went wrong.
The process in making our finished media product was a long process which included talking to one another about running shooting times and to fit times in our busy schedules for filming.
Allocating rules in our media project was the part in which we had a lot of discussion in and in the end we had agreed to the roles. Location was a major set-off because audiences are usually put-on with the setting of the scenery so, as a group we had a group discussion about location and agreed to the possible places and agreed to what was said.
The stages of production where we had the most focus on was editing and planning process because they were the process if went wrong would impact the other processes.
