Evaluation 7

Evaluation 6

Question 6: What have you learned about the technologies from the process of constructing the product?

Technology	When Used?	Why Used?	Benefits	Drawbacks	Skills Developed
Apple Mac	·         Throughout the main task during the planning stage (in order to research into thriller genres and makes my posts on certain software’s which would not be available on a usual desktop. The creation stage when we edited our product using the apple macs and during the evaluation stage when answering Question 2.	·         Apple Mac’s tend to be industry standard ·         Therefore professional software’s and presentations can be used.	·         Easy to use ·         Easily accessible resource. ·         There is a large range of resources and information in contrast to books	·         Information may be wrong or inaccurate due to anyone being able to edit the information ·         Reliability of the Mac computers always being accessible and functioning correctly is sometimes a risk as sometimes there is errors with the Mac’s and therefore information cannot be easily accessed ·         Self-control is needed in order to avoid immediate copy and paste from sources which you find ·         There may be TOO MUCH content which you would have to spend time going through in order to find the relevant information you want to use.	·         Having used the Mac has allowed me to improve my editing skills through the Final Cut process in which I only knew very few skills before. However now I know new skills such as how to take sound out of text and how to then modify the speech by changing the tempo.
IPhone	·         During the filming/production of our opening sequence ·         During the research and planning process to take images of my work to upload to the macs and post to my blog.	·         We were advised that it would be better to film using mobiles phones as the footage would be clearer for the audience than using the camera equipment. Also we have familiarity with recording using a IPhone whereas we may have struggled to understand how to control a digital camera initially.	·         Easy to Use and understand how to film ·         More portable (moveable) than a film camera. Therefore it is easy to move from the various locations which we had to do a lot in our opening sequence filming. ·         High quality film compared to the majority of cameras.	·         If phones crash in the middle of the filming process, all footage would have had to be shot again as our clips would be lost.	·
Internet	·         The internet was used during the research and planning stage I used the internet in order to research ‘actual’ thriller films such as ‘The Presige’ and ‘Limitless’ in order to see the codes and conventions stereotypically used in the Thriller genre as well as researching the Thriler genre as a whole as well as sub genres and hybrids.	·         Information is easily accessible and there is a lot of content to choose from therefore meaning there is more information you could use meaning that due to being able to study a mass number of texts means that more can be said during work tasks.	·         The internet is a faster source of information ·         There is more content of information than in a book as well as more variety in content.	·         Internet connection is needed which can sometimes be unreliable and therefore information could not be found if technical issues occurred.	·        Improvement on my research skills.
Prezi	·         I used Prezi for a number of my posts. I used this form of technology twice in the research	·         In order to show my blog in a more visually interesting presentation	·         Easy to use ·         Free Access ·         Visually Interesting ·         Settings can be altered in order to present your work how you would like.	·         It is a website which may of my peers will use. ·         Internet connection is needed ·         Take a long period of time to create due to having to add transitions aswell as information.	·         Being able to present my work on more unusual forms of software which I would not use generally.
Powtoon	·         During Research task (‘What is the main task?’)	·         Presentation    is visually interesting to showcase my work ·         Unique  software which many people will not have used	·         Free to use ·         Allows moving imagery as well as still imagery ·         Easy to use ·         Visually interesting	·         Internet connection is required ·         Limitations on choice of graphics and presentation styles.	·         How to create a moving image piece ·         How to combine both information aswell as creative imagery.
Surveymonkey.com	·         For our Survey work during the final stages of research and planning	·         A simple way to ask questions and find our answer to what certain age categories would expect and like to see in Thriller Film. We then used this information to apply our feedback to our film and make it more appropriate for our target audience based on their feedback.	·         Free to use ·         A link can be posted to facebook/twitter therefor awareness of the survey is given to a bigger audience and therefore is available for more people to fill out and therefore we would have more people to compare results between ·         Gives percentages and figures of the results immediately so they do not have to be personally calculated.	·         Internet connection is required ·         People may be disingenuous and therefore we make get some inaccurate results of what certain age groups would like/expect to see in the thriller genre’s and apply the incorrect feedback to our work	·         How to create an online survey. This may benefit me in the future for similar media products when I need to ask about audience preference in films or could possibly be used to get feedback on a future product I may produce or have involvement in.

Evaluation 5

Evaluation 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The original certification of our film was a 12 rating as we thought this would be an appropriate age rating due to the psychological content being quite intense as well as some of the themes being quite confusing anyway for a stereotypical 12 year old as the entire film narrative can be quite confusing. Therefore even without the psychological content it would be inappropriate.

During the research stage of the coursework task I researched a number of different films such as :

   

All of the films above were certificated in an age range from PG-13-18. The film seven was branded as a 15 age rating like our product. Personally after reflecting on other media products such as this one I believe we should not have put our age certificate at such a high level however my group and other audience feedback members disagreed with this.

During our questionnaires we asked a range of age groups about their what they would expect and like to see within a thriller film. Our survey was categorised into 3 age ranges (13-15,16-18,19-25)

The age bracket who's results we based our work on the most were the 13-15 to a certain degree but mainly the 16-18 age group as this is the first age grou where our certification rating covers all the ages.)

Our results showed that our target audience would be interested in Psychological Thrillers as apposed to Violent Thrillers therefore we used this element in our work as well as it overall being more interesting for the narrative and many thought a thriller film should feature a death however we believed that the combination of a death and experimentation would be too much to put into an opening sequence.

Therefore our target audience is of people of both genders as it is not gender specific who like stereotypical connotations of psychological thrillers (as explained in Question 5) and is of a 15 age rating.