EVALUATION

FOUNDATION PORTFOLIO: EVALUATION QUESTIONS TO ANSWER In the evaluation the following questions must be answered: 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?Ø In what ways does your opening film sequence of a new fiction film use ‘Horror/Rom-com/Thriller’ forms/genres/conventions? * Eg: We used atmospheric, eerie music for our horror opening as this is conventional in horror films * We used pink titles in our Rom-com opening as this is in keeping with the conventions of such genres * In our thriller we used a selection of images which gives clues as to the rest of the narrative as was used in Se7en Ø In what ways does your opening film sequence of a new fiction film develop or challenge form/genre/conventions? * Our horror film challenged conventions by incorporating the end of the film at the beginning * Our Rom-com has challenged the Rom-com conventions by not having pink, soft titles, instead we used red titles, strong titles to signify love and romance * Our Thriller develops the genre by combining it with the comedy genre, by having conventions that belong to both genres 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups? How does your film opening represent certain social groups in its narrative? Think in terms of sub cultures, age, gender, class (social grade), ethnicity, etc? Ie. The hero of the narrative is a gay teenage boy, which is unconventional in such thriller genres 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? What kind of Film Studio, TV Company might distribute your film and why? – What studios would release a typical horror film, a Rom-com, a thriller film? Is your film a big budget venture or a smaller independent film? eg: Working Title films for Rom-coms 4. Who would be the audience for your media product? Think about your target audience in terms of age, gender, class, ethnicity, social grade of your target audience. Apply in relation to the genre and film rating? 5. How did you attract/address your audience? How have you attracted your audience to your film through its storyline, characters, titles, music in your opening? Also how would you attract your audience in terms of marketing/advertising your product at the cinema? 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? What have you learnt in terms of using the following technologies: Mini dv cameras for filming/Final Cut pro for video editing/Blogging on Blogspot etc 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? What did you learn from the preliminary task in terms of a) working as a group b) operating video camera’s c) filming sequences thinking about match on action and the 180-degree rule? d) And how did you apply that knowledge to your major production?

The opening sequence in Se7en