Final draft of 'Sent'

Evaluation (Part 7)

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

There are some similar shots to those in our preliminary exercise and our final draft of our film:

As you can see, in both our preliminary exercise and our final thriller film draft, Billy walks across in front of the camera, in a mid shot.

Again, we see a similarity with the way Billy looks out of the window in our preliminary exercise, and how I spy on those inside of Billy's house in our final draft of Sent.

There are other similarities between both our preliminary exercise and final draft of Sent, however these are mainly shot types.

As a whole, out final draft of Sent is very different to our preliminary exercise, this is due to the fact we hardly knew what we was doing with the preliminary exercise, but we did when it came to our film. The preliminary exercise wasn't taken too seriously either, which on our final draft of the film we made sure everyone was acting correctly, and doing everything correctly. We also had longer in which to edit the film, and so we could make sure it was to be bes quality we could make it.

Evaluation (Part 6)

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

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Evaluation (Part 5)

5)How did you attract and address your audience?

Our target audience was teenagers/young adults

We adressed our audience by firstly, using technology that is popular with these age groups, Facebook. By making the death threats be sent via Facebook in the film, we grab the audiences attention as its something that could happen, but maybe not in such an extreme way, to anyone. All the characters in the film are also teenaged, and so this will automatically make the audience associate themselves with the feelings of what is happening to the characters, as they the same or of a similar age to them. The film also deals with a real issue, cyberbullying, which is often talked about in the news, as there are many stories of more extreme cyberbullying talking place.

Here is an example of a real life account of cyberbullying. Stories like this is why we decided on our film storyline, to try and reach people who are being cyberbullied, but at the same time exaggerating it to try and make it entertaining at the same time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7006473.stm

The issue of cyberbullying however in our film, is a very extreme case, and is very exaggerated. By doing this, not only have we grabbed the audiences attention by bringing up very real issue, we keep their attention by making it more extreme entertainment wise.

Evaluation (Part 4)

4)Who would be the audience for your media project?

The audience for my media project will be teenagers and young adults.

This is because the issue raised in the film is cyberbullying, which is something many teenagers have experienced or know someone who has experienced it, whether it was slight or more serious. It is also an often talked about occurrence, and most people have been warning about it, and how to stop it. The cyberbullying in it is done via Facebook which is a very popular social networking site for people around this age group. This may be because the minimum age for using the site is 13, and many older people don't really use social networking sites, even though it is becoming more popular, and so most of the people who join it will be around teenaged and young adult aged. This means the film is likely to appeal to them more if the aspects in the film are directly related to these age groups.

Also, the results of my survey monkey survey said that more teenagers watch thriller films than other age groups.

Evaluation (Part 3)

3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media project and why?

What insitutions are there?

• Cinema
• DVD
• TV

Cinema

Films shown at the cinema are films that will do well, a film that people will go to pay and see. And so, its mainly only the bigger film companies that put films on at the cinema, and so the

audience will expect it to be of high quality and to be worth the money they will pay to see it. As we are amatuer film makers, it probably would be best to not distribute our film. This is because it won't be the high quality of film that is mostly shown, sometimes low budget movies are shown at the cinema, but these are rare and are of the best quality without all the editing processes the big film companies use. Also, if it was shown at the cinema, it is likely that there are other films out too, ones that are the best quality and so people would be more likely to see the other films, as they will be better quality and value for money

DVD
Movies that are often put straight on DVD are of too low quality to be shown in the cinema. If

our film was to be distrubuted in this way, some people may be put off by the fact it wasn't g

ood enough to be shown at the cinema. Also

, people have to pay to buy a DVD, and evn though it will be significantly less than going to t

he cinema, this amy still put people off as they know it won't be too good quality.

TV
I think TV will be the best medai insitution to distribute our film. This is because a majority

of houses own a TV, and more and more households are owning more than one, so not only will many people have asscess to it, people are ready pay to

watch the TV and so they won't have to pay anymore, like they would at the cinema or DVD, to watch it. Even though there are so many TV and so many channels, a common statement made by people is 'Nothing is on'. This would help our film to be watched, as if there is nothing else the person or people want to watch, they are more likely to watch it. However, it is unlikely that big televison companies such as BBC, ITV and Sky will show the film, as it is not from a big company such as universal and Paramount, and so they won't show it as it won't be the quality they want, and may loss them viewers. One channel that would proably be willing to show it is Film4. This is because they often show movies from smaller and possibly unknown companies. With the amount of households with TVs, it is more likely that our film will be viewed by many people. Also, the fact it deal with a very real issue, Cyberbullying, but in an over exaggerated story which would rarely ever happen, it may cause victims of cyberbullying to come for ward. This may be because

the idea of the bullying actually leading to real death, may scare them into talking to someone about it. Even though they were scared to do so, the fact they told someone will help the situation to stop, before it goes any further. Often, some TV dramas deal with real issues, such as

Eastenders, in order to try and get people to talk about their situation and to stop it getting worse. So, it is a very common thing to deal with real issues in films and TV shows, in order to get real people to talk about the similar issues they are in, and with the amount of people that may see the movie, we may not only get our film seen, but help people to realise that they should talk about these things before they become out of hand.

Evaluation (Part 2)

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

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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