Task 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product ?

After                                                                                                   Before

Task 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Task 5 - How did you attract your audience ?

Attracting the audience

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Task 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

Breakdown of Target audience

•      Primary audience =   Mainly 16-22 years old

•         Equal ratio of male and female viewers

•         Interest in the Physiological thriller genre 

•         Interest in Paranormal activities

•         A secondary audience = Parents/adults

The aimed audience

• With our film “ONE” displaying themes of abandonment and isolation, we aimed our target audience to be from 16-22years.
•  We aimed it to be of interest to adults as well as they would take interest in the unusual occurences of life and relate how these events could happen to their children 
• The product would be of interest to older teenagers as it is mainly about a 17yearold girl, however it’s not your usual teenage high school film.It is based more on family home life.
• It will attract a wide audience of older teenagers and adults as it plays on humanity’s growing fears of loneliness.
• Our film would generally attract an audience that enjoy thriller mysteries. The theme reflects the danger that could occur in everyday life combined with a fictional themed storyline.
• This provokes the audience to consider whether this storyline would happen in reality and who it would happen to.
• The isolation and abandonment affects a larger audience, as the film presents realism of how anyone’s life could be changed at any moment.

We found....

• An average western 17year old
•  middle class teenager

• Average middle class teenage viewers

Task 3 - What kind of medi institution might distribute your media product and why?

Our thriller would be aimed to be taken on by a company like vertigo. Our production is not a high concept film for a company like warner Bros pictures but still has a wide range audience and is aimed for international distribution. Our thriller would be suited to vertigo films as it reflects social realism but with an unknown fictional twist of everyone disappearing.

Our Use of an up and coming, less well known cast also matches the work of vertigo and we would aim for our film to have a platform release and make profit from a large amount of DVD sales. Vertigo also has a wider secondary target audience of 25+ which is cohesive with our product.

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Vertigo has previously produced thrillers and i think our production would accompany these well:

·         WΔZ

·         The escapist

·         Shotgun stories

·         Monsters

Task 2 - How does your product represent particular social groups?

Our product represents middle class citizens from all cultures. We display the importance of family and the mundane daily life for middle class families. We display how the suburban life can suddenly be turned upside down.

Other media products that represent similar social groups are TV series like...

Desperate Housewives representing a middle class family life society

 The BBC TV series Outnumbered, similarly represents the daily life of middle class society

We took ideas from the these TV series that captivate a wide range middle class audience to make a popular film with a thriller twist.

Additionally our product represents teenagers and reflects an image of a teenager’s ultimate independence when she is left alone.

The use of having a representation of teenagers will interest our primary audience of 13 to 23 year olds, similar to TV series like Skins and several films like....

Task 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Task 1 new

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Our Aim..

What we have aimed to produce

We have produced a physiological thriller based on the idea of an ordinary 17 year old girl waking to find her life turned upside down, as she is the only person left in the world. We used the normality of waking up to what seems a normal day, then progressing into strange occurrences. The title sequence ends with the girl’s realisation she is alone. We decided to leave it on a cliff hanger so the audience would question what happened.

When we came up with the idea, we only thought about the title sequence, and didn’t really think about why all these people have disappeared. We felt this would work as a possitive, leaving our audience to interpret their own view . It could be the cause of alien abduction, government evacuation, a highly infectious virus or global warming.

I am Ledgend follows a similar storyline to our product along with films like 28days and Independence Day.

An account of our film day

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 On Wednesday 19th January our production team, ‘Cryptic Productions’ commenced a film day.

9:00am  The team and cast met

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9.15am   Left Hurtwood house , making sure we had all the film equipment, storyboards and other items we would need throughout the day.

•9:45am   We then arrived at Adam Grants house at Leith hill were we would record the nursery room scene. We set the nursery up how we would want it, putting toys in the cot and ruffling the blanket to enhance a deserted feel.

•When we white balanced and looked at the view through the lens we realised the light in the room wasn’t bright enough or the right quality. We then added extra light beside the window and put a blue gel filter in front, to make sure it matched the incoming outdoor light.

•Whilst this was happening I went through the story board with Emma (our main character) and directed her on what we wanted her to do. We then filmed her running towards the cot and reacting several times. Firstly we filmed it with a long shot then with close up reaction shots.

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• 11.15am we left and headed for Cranliegh to proceed filming the exiting from the house and the deserted street scene. For this we used a dolly track for a smooth pan shot to keep a fluent exit from Emma leaving the house to walking out toward the street. This was a bit of a challenge to do successfully, as we were pushing the camera on the dolly ourselves, and it was hard to keep the pace consistent with Emma walking.

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•12.45pm In the afternoon we continued with filming at the main house also in Cranleigh, where we would film all the interior shots. We decided to now go in chronological order through the storyboard. We went through each shot starting in the bedroom. With the day progressing it started to get darker and we realised we were losing some of the light in the house. We left shots that we could use our own light for until the end (for example the shower running) and filmed our shots needing incoming light (for example the corridor scenes).

For this revealing shot we previously asked permission form neighbours and put the empty cars open, showing abandonment, in the middle of the road. Two of us had to stand at each end of the street in case any cars came during filming. After a while planning we managed to get the right shot we needed in just a couple of takes. we checked we had all the right shots and made sure Emma kept the exact same appearance, for continuity.