Evaluation 4

Who would be the audience for my media product?


As we started filming for our product we analysed that for a horror/ thriller genre of film we would be appealing to mostly to teenagers and people in their twenties so we approached filming with the mind-set that our film would be aimed for that age group.

Before we started filming we had to research what kind of films appealed to that age group and how it appealed to them. We noticed that horror films had three focusses; the start, the middle and the twist. We came to a conclusion that for our audience to be hooked the beginning had to be nerve racking and to keep them interest the twist had to be unexpected. Also because we are of similar age to our target audience we were able to come up with a storyline which we all liked and therefore hoped  our audience would too.

Evaluation 3

Which Media Institution Would I Want To Distribute My Media Product?

A media institution, also known as a media conglomerate or media group,  is a business which owns multiple subsidiaries  within the media world such as BBC who own television stations and radio stations and others as shown below. 

The main media institutions which would probably make my media product the greatest amount of money are called "The Big Six". They are a group of media conglomerates which have over 90% market share between them. They are: Comcast (NBC), Disney, News Corp (Fox), Time Warner (Warner Bros.), National Amusements (CBS) and Viacom (Paramount). In my opinion News Corp, or Fox, would be my preferred distributor because it has a 39% stake in Sky which would get the media product out to as many people as possible, also as a company Fox made over £13.8 billion in revenue which proves they would create the biggest profit for my product.

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Delays in Production

During our filming we did come across a few problems. One of which being That the first time that we went out to film it turned out to be too dark! When we got into the woods at around 5pm we took out the camera in order to film our first scene. We were all exited at the prospect that the film was actually going to be made. Unfortunately the camera couldn't pick up any facial features due to the lack of light. Because of this we decided that we were going to film earlier in the day.

Another problem that we encountered was with the Go-Pro. We attempted to attach a Go-Pro onto a helmet to give a POV shot. However we couldn't work out the angles in order to focus on objects so decided to just hold onto a camera on our head to give the same effect without having to workout the angles

Final Product

Film Timeline

During the month of January we planned are final clip to the detail:

• 16th Jan 2017: We started to plan our final storyboard.
• 20th Jan 2017: We finished our final storyboard.

After this period we began to film and edit:

• 6th Feb 2017: We all met up at Christ the King Primary School to try and film some scenes for our film inside Eastham woods, however when we walked down to the required location it was 5pm and was too dark to film anything. At that very moment we took it upon ourselves to resolve the situation by deciding to record during school hours in media lessons. 

• 10th Feb 2017: I used Final Cut Pro on a MacBook to try and edit some credits. However the rest of the group didn't like them so we decided not to use them even though I wanted to...........

• 13th Feb 2017: We all went to Bidston hill  to start filming our final clip. We all left college at 1pm and started to film about 200m into the woods were it was slightly shaded due to it being rich with vegetation. Unexpectedly, we finished all of our filming just after 3pm.

• 15th Feb 2017: During and after this date we started to edit are film using Sony Vegas Pro on Windows.