Q7) Looking back at your pleminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

When I first started the AS Media Studies course, I did have some basic knowledge and skills from past experience in the media industry, but this was a minimal. Whilst filming my preliminary task I have not only learnt skills relating to media but I have also feel I have learnt skills around organisational skills.

In terms of organisational skills I have learned to ensure that everyone has got a copy of all the footage and work needed, as I personally experienced problems with this. This was because in an original group of me and 2 other students, however, the two other students decided that the course was not for them and resigned from it. This left me in a position where I had to re film my preliminary task because all of the footage was on the other students account, which I could not get access to.

My Media skills have vastly improved from the time of producing my preliminary task and producing my contrust for my coursework. In my thriller film opening i have demonstrated many new skills that I have learnt around camera shots and angles, editing techiniques and combining diegetic and non diegetic sound to create a high aspect of eeriness and tension. These are skills that i have not neccesarily used before and include jump cuts, fast paced editing, close ups, extreme close ups and much more. This is an improvement for me as previously i would have used minimal knowledge of just a camera and tripod and basic editing software such as windows movie maker. For our editing we used IMovie, which is a piece of software, not just me but my group, had to adapt to because none of us have ever used it. At first we found this quite challenging, but after a numerous amount of times using the software, we got used to and used the different features really well.

Q6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Q6 evaluation from chloehowse

Q5) How did you attract/address your audience?

Q4) Who would be the audience for your media product?

 As stated in our planning and research, as a group, we decided to classify our thriller film opening as a 15. This decision was one of the results from the audience research commenced by us a group.

Above is a pie chart showing the results from one the questions on the questionnaire. It shows that majority of the people we asked, who enjoyed thriller films were aged between 15 and 20. This influenced us to choose '15' as a classification. In addition to this we discovered that majority of the people asked, that liked thriller conventions we used, were male. So we decided that majority of our audience would be young males aged between 15 and 20.

Typical Audience Member.

This is Daniel Flay, he is a 17 year old student who enjoys thriller movies, especially psychological thrillers. He is a huge fan of the main protagonist, Levi Hodge, so this automatically attracted his attention to Reprisal. However, Daniel was also intrigued by the wide range of codes and conventions demonstrated in our thriller film opening. In Daniel's spare time he regularly attends the cinema to see film premieres as it is a much better experience than watching it home he explained. His favourite genre of film is thriller and the films include Arlington Road, Brick, and Psycho.

Daniel Stated "I  really like thriller films and absolutely love the opening sequence to Reprisal, I cannot wait until I can see the rest, watching the opening immediately give me a huge sense of eireeness. As a huge fan of thriller films I can see how the key conventions and the things I expect to see have been used such as jump cuts. I especially like the use of CCTV footage".