How did you attract/address your audience?

Who would be the audience for your media product?

There are many types of thrillers, and many or them have the certificate 15. However pyschological thillers usually have the certificate 18, chloe and I wouldnt necessarly call our thriller a pyschological thiller so ours is aimed at 15 year olds and above.
We have generally aimed our thiller at teenagers and young adults as when we did our questionnaire the reponses we go back were that younger people prefered thrillers whereas older people didn't like them. As out characters are young this helps the audience to relate to them.

In a survey done by BFI in 2011 we can see that only 62% of males and 55% of women like thrillers, it is also more popular in minority ethnic groups than in the white population. But overall 59% of the population likes thrillers.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

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

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

In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

Mark my Words - Final Edit

Editing Tuesday 19th January

Chloe and I were adding the finishing touches to our video, we added the scenes we filmed prior to the lesson, towards the end of the lesson we got feed back from our teacher on our almost finished opening scene, miss told us that our titles were boring and that we should change the font. Chloe and I worked to correct this until the end of the lesson.

Re-filming Sunday 17th January

Chloe and I went to our friend Charlottes house to finish filming for our final piece, we re-filmed the close up eye shot and the sequence where chloe puts on nail varnish, we took misses advise and added a close up of the nails being painted rather than just a long shot. We got the filming done quickly and effectively ready for the following lesson.

Editing Thursday 14th January

During this lesson me and chloe experiences difficulties with our sound, the voice overs were way too quite and when we tried to turn them up the voices would get really crackly, it turned out that it was the headphones, we also decided that we would record some sound for our piece. We could have gone onto a copyright free website and downloaded footsteps and a phone buzzing but we decided that we would record them ourselves.

Editing Thursday 7th January

In todays lesson chloe and I added the whispers that we had recorded when we filmed the first time, these are filmed with 4 different voices which makes it more intresting and also adds to the confusion of the audience as they have no idea who is after her. these were originally going to be text messages appearing on her phone but we changed it to whispers instead as we believed this was more representitive of a thriller.

Editing Tuesday 15th December

During this lesson we took on Misses comments and started to add more titles. This took a bit of time as we had to figure out how to make the titles and then how we would place them over the scene properly. We decided that we would have our titles in a white basic serif font, its very subtle and is not too eye catching. We also then raised the volume of the voice over as this was too quite.

Audience Feedback for our First Edit

When Chloe and I asked people what they though of our first edit, lots of people told us it was very good, that it obviously need some work but the overall outline was very good. We have had feedback from friends, family, other students in our class and our teacher. Our teacher has given up very helpful constructive criticisms, and Chloe and I are working through this and trying to improve.

Miss has told us that the shots we have used are very good but some of them are slightly out of focus, such as the close up of the eye and will need re filming, Chloe and I have planned to re film these shots on Sunday 17th January as this is when Charlotte's house is free again. Also at the send of the scene their is a voice over of a male voice on a phone, miss has told us that this needs to be louder, so that its clear enough to hear. 

Miss has also told us that the music is too sinister for just the opening sequence and where I agree the music is very sinister I feel that its the perfect amount to go with the scene. However hearing this feedback me and Chloe did look for alternatives but found nothing that could fit quite as well. when we asked other students from the class they said that the music fit really well.

Miss also told us that the male character is too 'cliche' and that he wasnt necessary to the scene. But we feel as he is crucial and wont be taking him out.

Editing Thursday 10th December

We had just filmed the day before, and the first edit was due for the next day so me and chloe were trying to get the editing done in two hours, in our fist edit the shots are edited in a simple fashion but it reflects the overall outline that we were going for. It took us some time to first get started as we had both only used the editing program once, but towards the end of the two hours we were very confident with the software and were able to edit each video together so that it flowed well. We also added music into the background, we were very happy with the music as it is quite sinister and though the scene seems quite pieceful at first, it will hopefully cause the audience to question what really is going on in the scene. The music is a nice juxtaposition from the scene. We also tested out a few options for our title 'mark my words' and found that we liked an italic serif font the best.

We also had to put the voice over we got matt to film in otherwise the ending of the scene 

wouldnt have made much sense.

Filming 9th December

Chloe and I filmed on Wednesday 9th December. We filmed at our friend Charlotte's house, this worked well for us as her room is quite big and she had a dressing table. However we did find difficulties in filming in her room, as filming closeups of anything on the dressing table were difficult because the area was quite cramped and we couldn't fit the tripod in the space between the chair and her wardrobe. it also was quite noisy filing in her house as there was someone watching tv downstairs,other than that the location worked very well for us.
We had also relied on our friend Guy to come be the male actor in our piece but he cancelled on us last minute, luckily we were able to persuade our other friend Matt to come help us out, he worked well for the roll, as he was able to take the filming process very seriously and he is very tall so he appear to be quite intimidating.
When we started to film, I could not work out how to focus the shots and some early clips in our draft reflect this, though because we were on a tight schedule we didn't have time to go back and correct these, we didn't see the blurriness of this shot properly until the editing scene. Chloe and I will be re-filming some shots in the near future so that our piece can be the best it can be.