TASK 7. Looking Back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Main Task: Here are the Screen Grabs that I have got from after we had edited our Main Task. We edited our thriller on Final Cut Pro, and got the screen grabs from it:

Prelim Task:

For our Thriller I thought that I had learnt so much more compared to how we shot our Preliminary Task. I really enjoyed shooting our Preliminary task, as it was a completely new experience to me. I thought it helped a lot as I now know how to shoot my Thriller correctly as I have had a bit of experience before using the camera that we shot with.

When I watched my preliminary task I thought that they were so different compared to my Main task, by the standard that we had improved on as a group. By how we used the correct actors, props, costume design and the set design, as we were way more prepared to shoot our main Thriller. When we were shooting our Preliminary task there was no planning at all towards our shoot, as we didn’t really know what we were doing on the shoot day. We were split up into groups and given a script for the actors to read.

For our main Thriller shoot, our group had been planning it for months so we could get everything perfectly planned out. We spent most our time planning our shots, props and the lighting that we would use in our Thriller. I thought the development of the smoothness movement of the camera work in our main task had improved dramatically from the set up to the use of the camera in our Preliminary task. I think this came from our confidence as a group, but as experience as we used the camera a lot more.

When we were shooting our Preliminary task we were given allocated areas to film our scene. When we came into the room were we were going to shoot, everything was set up ready for us to use. Were when were shooting our main Thriller task we had set everything up as we had spent weeks on planning our Thrillers.

Our main task took much more organizing, as we had to go out and get the props for as cheap as possible as we didn’t want to spend a lot of money for our main task. We also had to print out 5o pieces of paper that had stock certificates printed on it. We had to build a dummy that would be strong enough to stay together after falling down a couple of times.

In our preliminary task the two sequences in the preliminary task were very simple shots, as we had chopped off the top of the heads in the shot and were either dead on as we didn’t use any composition. For our main task our shots were more complex as we used diegetic sound, tracking shots and the use of all the credits on Final Cut Pro. How we were able to correctly edit the main task with all the shots in the correct order and being able to crop unwanted objects out of the shot.

As my task was to put in the sound I had to make it fit the story by using a wind sound, and then a increased sound to reveal the end of our thriller. I have learnt so much more from the beginning of the year as I am now able to create a thriller on my own. In the terms of filming and editing my thriller I thought I was capable of being confident and showing that I could use a camera correctly.

TASK 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product

TASK 5. How did you attract/address your audience

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Attracting and addressing the Audience:

I would advertise my thriller in places where the audience would be for example CD stores, fast food restaurants. Also advertising on Tv would be late evening such as 9pm onwards for the type of genre it is, and it would also be on the four channels as if they are lower class then they would not have more channels such as Sky Tv. Posters would also be really useful to use as we can show the best parts of the him falling in mid air. As you can put the actors names on the poster a good selling point.

TASK 4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

For our target audience that our media product is aimed at would probably be a young adult who is a well educated, as our product is a Physiological Thriller. Targeting a well-educated Audience is not essential but the viewer would understand the concept of the film better as it could be at times confusing.


Although the film will have elements of a horror in which our target audience might not enjoy. In this style a late teen would be correctly targeted to like this product, as they may be into that genre of film.

TASK 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Four our Thriller, as a group we thought that Lionsgate would be the best producer to distribute our thriller as they are renowned for producing low budget films and especially psychological thrillers like our own thriller.



Lionsgate have produced recent films such as ‘Saw’ and ‘Devils Rejects’. All of the films that they have produced are low budget films. Lionsgate also do festivals and presentations, which are useful to advertise and get our film seen and heard of by as many people as possible.

I know that Lionsgate Films are well known for distributing many well-known films, so it would be a selling point as it is like using a well known actor in our thriller. This is a very good reason to why we would want to use Lionsgate as our distributor.

TASK 2. How does your product represent particular social groups?

For our Thriller Product it represents a number of different Social groups as it most likely would attract a upper class people who are into Physiological Thriller Films. I wanted to represent that by using the floating Stock certificates at the start of our thriller. We did this by making our character seem like he is a banker which surprises the audience because they would later find out that the man is mentally ill.

Our thriller is targeted to people who have a good knowledge, and are well-educated people. In our thriller the reason why he commits suicide is because of the economical situation were lots of people in the banking industry have lost their jobs. Our thriller is shown as a real life day as it is involved with the recession.

TASK 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product?

In our opening sequence I wanted to make it as realistic to real life as possible so the thriller would be more convincing to an older target market. To do this you need to have the correct fonts for our opening sequence as a font can tell you what type of film it is, e.g. A Hand writing typeface could tell the viewer that it is a Love film.

For our credits and titles we had to put it in a correct order to lay out the titles for a film, we did this by putting Lionsgate, Red Neck Productions, A Hannah Winter Film, actor, Actor, Editing, Photography, Music and then The title of our film. Because there were only four of us in our group we could only put a certain amount of credits in our Thriller. I did some background research before I decided were to put the credits, as I was uncertain of how they are meant to be in order.