Evaluation Question 7 Looking Back at Your Prliminary Task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full Product?

Evaluation Question 6 : What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing the product?

This video has had annotations added to it in order to explain how we used editing software and other technology in order to produce our thriller...

Evaluation Question 5 : How did I Attract or Address my Audiance

Evaluation Question 4: Who Would be the Audience For your Media Product

Because we are releasing our film via an institution with an already large dedicated and varied fan-base, the audience that views our media text will be very diverse. 

However, when concentrating on advertising, and attracting our audience, then the demographic become less broad.

Interest in thrillers varies in gender and age, for males, some sources say that its young adults and adults up to adults, 18 - 22 years old and some into their 30s and 40s, because this film will have action, suspense gore and other male friendly connotations, the male audience will be much broader when it comes to age.

With women its very different, the age range is much smaller, teens and young adults, are usual viewers of thriller and horror material, all because of the stuff teens do, you go to house parties and sleep overs and watch a scary films and sometimes huddle up to the boys in fear. This concept sounds very cliche, however it is pop culture around this age. 

Our generic, mature audience member would be in her early 20s, be employed with a university, or post Uni job pre working place job, and will be spending time, flicking around the internet and Netflix, procrastinating her studies, and filling in the spare time. Considering the institution, which is regularly viewed by hobby filmmakers, or independents, she may be studying Media as a course, and be be very artistic, making her accepting of the wider range of genres. Because a thriller is usually much more psychologically complex, and more much more detailed in plot than the other genres, it would make sense that an audience member who looks to becoming professional, will appreciate the more intricate areas of films texts.

Evaluation Question 3 : Rocket Jump Producing my Thriller

Evaluation Question 2 : How does your Media product represent particular social groups

(Considering the Technical Aspects)

The first Person we see in the opening sequence is the victim, a man, an immediate subversion of the stereo type, as the man is usually capable and able ti not get himself into trouble, and when he does, he can usually get his way out, like James Bond when he's in the masterminds trap. However in our thriller, is is immediately in pain and shouting for help, scared and alone, and unable to free himself from the trap he is in. the diegetic sound in the scene is also a good representation of his situation, his cries for help and screams of pain are a additional subversion the of the strong male stereotype. The non-diegetic soundtrack also highlights the suspense and danger of the situation the victim is in. During filming, the hand held camera movements represent the panic and confusion, using close ups to emphasise his fear, by getting the details of his expressions, again subverting the stereotype that the men are the here.


The male character is wearing professional bike lycra and the bike we see that he was supposedly riding before we see him, is also very professional looking, giving the impression that he should know what he is doing when it comes to his biking hobby. Men are always the capable character in films, and to see him after an accident due to him not being able to handle himself at an activity he is clearly good at, gives the impression that the situation he is in is serious and that even the strongest willed men would be in trouble.

The Male Victim however gets the most screen time, the female killer only some in at the end of the opening sequence, and we don't even know that she is the killer. we decided this in editing, to elude the audiacnne into thinking that the vicitm is the main character, adhearing to the stereotype the that thrillers are dominated by a male cast as she enters the scene, saying 'oh my God' when she arrives, making it seem like she didn't know what was going on before she got there, adhering the helpless women stereotype. But then she shoots him right at the end, the diegetic sound of the gunshot shocks the audience, making her empowering and also shocking the audience, because she was capable of such an action. At this point the audience will realise that she set up the whole thing, subverting the stereotype that i previously explained.

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

In this evaluation, I will be comparing aspects the opening sequence to our thriller, to that of real world industry media texts, by linking the similarities in camera work and angles, titles and conventions, and comparing the storyline a characters of both plots. I will be looking at the zombie horror film, 28 Days Later (2002) for examples to compare.

The first establishing of our thriller, in 28 days later, they use an
establishing shot of London at sunset, which then pans
down/crossfades in to the room
where everyone is sleeping, both simply
setting the scene and location. 

A scene from 28 Days Later, commonly known as ‘Jim’s House’ closely resembles our thriller opening sequence, in terms of establishing shots in order to set the scene and the build up of tension towards the climax, where jim gets attacked when zombies smash through the windows of his kitchen, and then the secondary climax, where one of the survivors he is with get brutally murdered by the other for being bitten. The climax in our thriller, would be when we are introduced to the victim in the bike, and the secondary climax, being when he gets gunned down by the supposedly harmless woman who ‘comes to his rescue’.

Both scenes start calm, content and relaxing for the audience, as this marks the beginning of our media text, the first thing the viewers will see after expectations of an action packed crime thriller, will be the wind gently blowing through the trees and diegetic sounds of Birdsong. In the scene from 28 Days, Jim is walking around his kitchen and remembering his parents pre-apocalypse, after discovering their dead remains in their bedroom and seeing vicious zombies attacking him, after coming fresh out of a Coma into the apocalypse. The audience has been on watching closely and intensely, and are now witnessing a scene, which contrasts the film that they have been watching so far. 

Then however, both scenes suddenly move into confusing and disorientation action, without giving the audience much warning, the shots in both our Opening Sequence and the scene form the film, using a controlled shaky cam shots to cause confusion, but being controlled, so that the audience have some idea of what is happening, focusing on actors with close up shots when there is important dialogue, or their is a need to show facial expressions of either the survivors or the zombies onto of him, to add to the sense of fear and confusion.

Both sequences feature multiple 

shaky close up shots to enhance the

confusion fear and disorientation that

the victim would be feeling, and the

shots are of either his expression

or of what he would be seeing

At the end of the main sequence of action, both scenes end on a form of violence, which has been shot in a way which the audience can see clearly. Both scenes are from the perspective of the victim of the attacks, so when they aren't involved in the action, then the camera movement adjusts, at the end of both scenes the characters focus on actions that they are not involved with directly, in the case of our thriller it is the cyclist thanking the woman for coming to help him, then she shoots him, the camera at a low angle, and the framing being still, showing control and clam before the ending, and giving the impression that the woman is in controll. Like in the scene from 28 days later, the fight between the survivors and the infected ends, but there is one who has become infected and in the moment of time where they all realise this, and the main character Jim witnesses Selena, another survivor, kill him with a machete, the scene being dramatic however the shots are still and revelling of the violence, as it is still from the perspective of the main character. 

Like when the character above realises
he's infected, before being killed
by Selena...

...And when Jim wakes up
from his Coma.

Close ups of the actors faces in both our thriller 

and 28days, were used to clearly show the emotions

of the characters in moments 

The characters that are introduced to the audience are very similar in both films, first of all, they both get into their accidents by riding a bike and being involved in a collision, and both are introduced post accident, however Jim is introduced 28 days after his accident, waking up from a comma and into the apocalypse, hence the title of the film. Our Victim is introduced very soon after his accident, and their is no reason to suggest he was unconscious for any length of time. They are both are introduced to the audience being disoriented and confused, even scared to some extent, more so with our character, however the emotions being felt by both characters is the same, just on different levels. 

Both our thriller and the film 28 days later, use simplistic White Font for all of its title sequences, however they are never layered onto footage, just a black background, all the credits are saved until the end of the film, ours start at the beginning and are layered onto the establishing shots of Surrey Hills at the begin of the thriller, with the faint sound of our victim in the background. However both our thriller ad 28 days later, still use the simplistic text for the same reason, to not draw the audiences attention away from the film, but at the same time, we were attempting to show the audience the big names in our film, getting them exited to see their favourite big names in 

the film, though we used fake names to represent this.

 Simplistic tile to the films, on a black background,
the reasons for choosing this as i explained were the
same from both our group and the director of
28 days later. 

Using fancy titles would ruin the action going on in the Thriller, and draw the audiences attention away from the content, so we decided to stick with a simplistic font. Danny Boyle, who directed 28 days later, and had a say in the editing, also conceived the same concept for his film, as he wanted the audience to be totally occupied with the plot of the film.

The plots of both films, with considering that our thriller wasn’t a complete feature length film, are very different, unlike this one instance from 28 days that I've used as an example. they are different genre, and so both films will have a totally different set of conventions to the each other. The plot of our thriller, after this opening sequence, will follow either the killer herself, or follow a plot-line similar to the TV series Broadchurch, or other crime thrillers, an investigation of the killer if you will, because our victim is killed within the first 2 minutes of the film. However the plot of 28 days later is based around The Victim, and his journey through the post apocalyptic world of Britain.

Mise-en-scene is however very different in both scenes, ours in outdoors during the day, theirs is indoors during the night. The props costume are totally different, Jim from 28 days later wearing Doctors scrubs he picked up in the hospital, and our victim is wearing bike lycra. Our victim is trapped under his bike trying to break free, and Jim is trapped under 2 zombies, and two others come to his rescue. The scenes are totally different in their mise-en-scene, the similarities in the two are drawn when it comes to audience reaction to the scenes and the conventions and effect its trying to have, the timing of both sequences are also very similar, thought the intensity of the action in both, differs somewhat.