I feel that I have learnt how to use different transitions to create different effects on the audience in a piece of media. One thing I learnt from my opening sequence that I did not know when doing my preliminary task was merging two sounds; by fading one out while fading the other in; I did this to extend the footsteps at the end to carry them on into the next shots.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have learnt how to download different soundtracks from MyFreeSounds.org. I used this to download the spygame2.wav. I was already familiar with iMovie from GSCE but I learned two clear things since then; that the cross-fade could be used to carry a title from one shot to another so it continues from a black screen to a moving clip, and that I can fade out one sound while fading in another to make it sound continuous. I recapped on how to use a camera and import footage. I have become aware of how to use Blogger and post text, images, videos and scan in work that I had done.
How did you attract/address your audience?
The target audience for my film opening sequence would be older teenagers. It isn’t aimed at younger teenagers, such as 15 year olds, as thriller films tend to me more complex and require a more sophisticated level of thinking to understand and enjoy. Horror films are generally aimed at the younger audience as they are simpler as what is shown on screen is all that happens and there are no hidden messages to work out.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The target audience for my film opening sequence would be older teenagers. It isn’t aimed at younger teenagers, such as 15 year olds, as thriller films tend to me more complex and require a more sophisticated level of thinking to understand and enjoy. Horror films are generally aimed at the younger audience as they are simpler as what is shown on screen is all that happens and there are no hidden messages to work out.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
My opening film sequence would be distributed by cinemas and in trailers before other thriller and horror films. It would be advertised before similar films so that the right target audience is delivered the information they need. Magazines, such as film and game magazines, would advertise this as the target audience would read these. Though my film said Universal Studios at the start, it wouldn’t make much sense for them to be distributing a small British film.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My opening film sequence represents policemen in a negative light. It shows him as what seems to be a killer when policemen should enforce and follow the law. My film is could be seen as stereotypical and exaggerative of schizophrenics. My film may suggest that all people with schizophrenia do drastically bad things such as kill people, when in real life this is not true. If I had more people that we could have worked with to make my film then it would have been easier to steer away from the cliché of the dead girl. I would have liked to challenge the stereotype that females are weak and so are the victims with having the police officer as a woman and the victim a man.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My opening film sequence uses conventions of real media products such as the slow eerie titles that appear at the start of the sixth sense. I decided not to have all the titles together at the start as I decided that after a while they start to lose the atmosphere and the audience find them tedious to watch. I used quiet music so the audience has to really get in the atmosphere and would quieten the audience in the cinema so everyone is settled for the start. I chose to use three different soundtracks rather than sticking to the same one because my opening sequence was essentially split into three, the section in the forest, the section when we change, and the section outside the house; this challenges some media products because they only have one or two different sections; such as in Brick when the guy is sitting next to the body, and then it’s in the school.
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