Evaluation

Question One:

In what ways does your product use the conventions of real media products?

• The first way I used the usual conventions for a Romantic Drama is by using the stereotypical boy meets girl storyline.
• Romantic drama stereotypically have a variety of chance meetings, which causes tension in the storyline.  I use this towards the end of the film where the characters have a change meeting at the male main characters wrokplace.
• I have challanged the usual convention of a Romantic Drama as my film has a cliff hanger ending. Whereas most films tend to have a difinitive good ending or bad ending this leaves the audience unsure as to if the main characters will get together or go seperate ways.

Question Two:

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• The female main character is seen as a strong character as she has moved on from her holiday romance with the male main character and now has a new boyfriend. Which is unusual in films as usual the male character is the one who would have moved on.
• The male main character is seen as a more weaker character as in my film opening he asks his friend about the female main character showing that he is more stuck in the past in comparison to the female character. This is unusual as the male main character is usual the more stronger character and the female character weaker in comparison.

Question Three:

What kind of media insistutions might distrubute you media product and why?

• I think that a large American distabution company like Universal Studios might distrubute my media product because Universal are associated with Romantic films like Knocked Up.
• The object of a large distrubution company is to make money and romantic films tend to make money as they are quite popular with the teenage age group. Because around this age teenager are falling in love for the first time or entering romantic relationships.

Question Four:

Who would be the audiences for my media product?

• I think that the female gender would stereotypically be the most compatable audience for my film and its content. Reason why is that female audience are accosiated with liking romantic films that are more slow paced more then the male audience.
• I also think people between the age of 13 and 25 would be intresting in this film because the target audience is flagging up that they are becoming more adult as they are starting to watch films that relate to romance as well as horror.

Question Five:

What elements of your text would attract the target audience?

• An element which would attract my target audience is the actors because the two main characters would be around the same age group as the audience members so that the audience can relate to what the actors are going through because of the similarity of age between the characters and the viewers.
• Another element is the story and events that happen in the film. This is because the audience can relate to the course of events that happen in the film's story  from experience.

Question Six:

What have you learned about technology from the process of making the product?

• I have learned how to use online accounts that I can use to document and publish my film opening and the information related to the making and planning. Two examples of what I have used is Blogger and Vimeo.
• I used Blogger to document the ideas and the storyline of my film opening as well as the needed information of the characters. I used Vimeo to publish the film opening for viewing onto Blogger  as well as my preliminary task and storyboard.

Question Seven:

Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learned in the progession from it to the full product?

• I have learned how to add music to the film to help prevoke a desired emotion from the audience. I have also learned how to use titles to make the film look more proffessional and smooth.
• I have also learned how to make cleaner and more smoother cuts in the film to make the viewing experience more natural, for example the shot where the main character opens the car door and enters the car would have been a match on action done in four or five shots. I have also used an actual story behind the making of the film opening.