1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups ?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
Question 2 is answered on another blog post.
Question 4.
Our main audience target would be teenage girls 15 - 20. This is because we believe our film opening title would really make them feel involved and would definatly give them a fright. Our media product has been designed to be aimed at teenage girls by the use of dialogue and costume. We used costume of our time period and the usual trendy clothing which would appeal to them also.
Question 6.
During the production we learnt about more technologies. We used the tripod first as through our first time filming we had very undsteady hands. The camera was easy for our group to understand as we had used Kims own camera that we used.
The next thing to tackle was The Mac!!!! The program we used was Final Cut Express which we were taught to use by Mr Henton and Mr Craddock . Kim and I found this very tricky to get the hang of as as the program is nothing like we have used before. With some footage that our teacher provided we had a practice on the software and found it a bit easier when editing our preliminary task. When editing our main task we developed new skills and have become more familiarized than before. So it was easier on this to make the editing flow better.
Question 7.
Our preliminary task is at a much lower standard than our main task. Producing our preliminary task has helped Kim and I progress it help us get the hang of the equipment and different angles and shots that worked in different situatuions. We learnt about the programs on the macs that we needed to use in our main task, we meant we was more able to produce a better product at the end. Another thing we learnt more about was the cameras too. Our preliminary task is edited badly as we knew less about the different effects you could have to make the cuts flow better; this is because we gained more knowledge throughout the rest of the year.
In our preliminary task we used a tripod for half of the filiming which in turn made some of the shots useable and some footage very unsteady. Thefore making the footage very jumpy and did not flow aswell as we wanted it too.
