Evaluation

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our opening to a film uses conventions of real media products. It uses a variety of shooting techniques such as tracking shots and over the shoulder shots when in dialogue. We used a conventional 'police investigation' sort of plot, and built up a rough opening to a storyline.
We also edited in parts so it cut to flashbacks of what happened prior to our film opening, to help develop and build up the story. This is also very conventional of this genre, i have seen it used quite often to show the viewers about what happened, and to let them figure it out themselves.
Real media products will probably always have credits at the beginning, so that was also something we almost had to include at the beginning.


How does your media product represent particular social groups?
We tried to make all characters involved fit their part by what they are wearing, how they act and what they say.
The police characters in our film opening, we tried to represent as middle class, quite highly paid people. We did this by wearing things like suits and shirts, to show they must be wealthy, and by also showing them working in what looks like a forensic type lab.
The dead body was also dressed in very casual clothing, with things like a leather jacket and jeans, which made him look quite rough, and not particularly wealthy. This makes it look like not such a surprise that he is involved in criminal activity.
The people working in the lab talk about the case as if they are very professional, and know a lot about what they are doing. This makes them fit into the correct social group, that we were trying fit them into.


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




Who would be the audience for your media product?


How did you attract/address your audience?


What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?


Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?