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

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

The preliminary task was an experiment in helping understand the skills we already have and the skills we need to develop. So in comparison to our opening sequence we can see the contrast between the quality of the camera work from then and now.

In our preliminary task and opening sequence we use an over the shoulder shot, in our opening sequence the person who has there back to the camera gives little clue to the narrative or any other characters, creating this sense of mystery we want for our film.

In our preliminary task we see another character facing the direction of the other person of the shoulder, so we have learned how to be clever with shots and what works with what genre, so by not having another character in our actual film we do not give any indication of the relationship that our characters have other than he could be our possible kidnapper or maybe even police.

Also compared to our first task we can see we have use various shots and this changes the dynamic and visual display of the story which will help engage the audience more because it’s not as still.

6. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing the product?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product? 5. How did you attract/ address your audience?

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Stockholm Syndrome would bring in people that enjoy thrillers and mystery this could apply to a varied age range but in particular we are appealing to young adults, so 16- 25. Our product has done this by casting our main character as someone who is within that age range as our target audience will feel as though they could possibly relate to her character. Although we are assuming more males will watch this rather than female, we can see that there could be a chance of more females seeing our product because our lead is of them same gender meaning they can also connect with her character. Yet still may appeal to males because of the genre and male gaze. 

How did you attract/address your audience?

So connecting back to what I said about the male gaze and females being able to relate to our main character, having a female lead brings in both genders. Usually thrillers with males as a lead implies there could be more of an action element. We want our film to allow the audience to question character’s motives and what their next move is going to be, and our audience would probably be reformers or explorers which is why our opening sequence is edgy and hasn’t many clues to the main narrative because this is how we want the audience to engage, nothing is going to be over the top we need an intense audience for an intense film. 

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media productand why?

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2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

Diary Post

Seth and I created a short video from footage we had filmed around the school to benefit us when it came to filming, it was important to learn to have control over the camera so shots were not shaky and were a reasonable duration. We tried to capture the essence of a Doctor's waiting room and at no point insinuate we were really filming in our school.

Moreover we found it a fun task and we used angles such as a low angle looking up at the clock and a high angle overlooking the waiting room to see the scene and grasp the idea of a still room with waiting patients. Our stillness was effect and overall we received good footage which was then finally edited and looked of a good quality.