Evaluation question 5

Evaluation question 5:

How did you attract/address your audience

When constructing our media product we thought that it was important for the audience to identify with a character so that they can become immersed in the story as it unfolds, in order to do this we tried to how different shots and close ups of the protagonist form different angles thus creating the effect that the audience are also involved with anything that the protagonist is involved with.

When designing our thriller film we wished to give the audience a genre pleasure in which the audience feels a sense of familiarity that reminds them of other products. We also wished to give Intellectual and narrative pleasures by allowing the audience to piece together the story and solve the plot as the protagonist does. Another pleasure we wished to advertise is the escapist pleasure that audiences can watch our media product and become immersed in the storyline.

Evaluation question 3

Evaluation question 3:

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

There are many ways that my media product could be distributed such as through the form of a cinema release. I believe that my product may be distributed in a chain of mainstream cinemas like VUE or Odeon. In order to do that I believe that marketing would need to advertise its release, by creating a two minute long trailer to shown on big budget films that have an earlier release date, another way of doing this by reaching out would be advertising on 3D films considering 3D films increasing popularity in recent years. 

We could utilize the Internet in order to market virally, an example of this would be releasing a short trailer of the film on a video sharing website like: YouTube. Another way of utilizing the internet for marketing could be creating a website dedicated to the purpose of advertising the film that others could go on to discover more about the film.

I think that a production company like Universal Pictures would distribute this film, this I because it is Universal Pictures that also distributed The Bourne Ultimatum.  When it comes to home release I believe that some time after cinema release it would be released in large retail stores like HMV or online like Play.com, I believe that it would be released on DVD and Blu ray to the general public. Another way of distributing would be on television, when it could be released on Sky Box Office in which members of the general public can pay to rent the film for a limited time that would branch out the distribution process.

During the home release of the movie it could also be available to purchase in other forms such as digitally online, for example iTunes is a vast library in which paying customers can pay to legally download the film onto a computer or portable device.

Evaluation question 4

Evaluation Question 4:

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for my media product would be 15-25 year old males because of the elements we have that appeal to this particular target audience that incorporates a familiar feel of other thriller films. The reason that it would attract mostly males is due to the action-motivated narrative that our film has. Another reason we choose the 15-25 year old male audience is because we feel that this audience would be able to identify with the protagonist due to the nature in which it was shot and the idea that the audience can escape into this world with the characters and become involved with the story as it progresses. Our audience would also enjoy watching other similar thriller films like: The Bourne Ultimatum, Casino Royale, and Memento. The audience is likely to watch their films at mainstream cinemas such as VUE or Odeon. Our audience's social class would most likely be in the C1 - C2 demographic and that they are aspirers that wish to escape into the story.

Discuss Representation of Status in Jane Eyre

Discuss the representation of status in Jane Eyre

By Jake Bromley

In the extract we were shown we see a variety of characters and their status and then shifts of status. At the beginning of the extract we see that the expensive manor that Jane’s aunt owns shows her High status as a form of authority and also shows her high social status implying that she comes from a wealthy background. The dark colour change when the scene changes shows Brockelhurst’s influence on Jane, this represents his status as a controlling character overruling Jane. When we first see the school from the outside it resembles a prison, as Jane enters the school we see her overwhelmed by its scale representing her status dramatically drops, as she no longer has any power. Later Jane is made to wear a school uniform showing the audience that her individuality has been completely removed and her status as a character is insignificant.

 

Throughout the extract there are many quick shots to keep the audience engaged with the action that allows the audience to feel fully immersed in the story.

 

The dialect of the characters shows their social statuses, Jane’s aunt and Brockelhurst are both well-spoken characters that speak firmly and clearly this shows their dominance over Jane suggesting their higher status.

 

Throughout the extract there are many close ups, this is so the audience is able to identify with Jane and empathize with her, another technique of this is when we see an over the shoulder shot looking over Jane’s shoulder and down onto her aunt, this places the audience into Jane’s ‘shoes’ and for the first time shows that Jane has the higher moral status than the other characters. There is a low shot the looks up at Brockelhurst when we first see his character; this shows his immediate dominance over the other characters. Later on in the extract we see a low angle shot looking up at Jane standing on a stool, with Brockelhurst, this shows that even though her character’s status is not very high, her moral status is above every other character.

Evaluation question 2

Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our thriller film is a male dominated film; in our opening there is only two characters, both of which are male. The protagonist is an active and complex character in his early thirties, he is in the audience’s perspective the ‘good guy’, he is the character the audiences identify with. The Antagonist is an active, simplistic character in his early forties. All this creates a male dominated genre, we did not purposely choose to omit females from our product we just felt it did not fit with the narrative of our film. In our thriller film we do not have a proportionally representation of society because our character’s ages are quite close

In our thriller film it is arguable that we reinforce a stereotype that individuals involved with crime are man in there 30’s – 40’s and the clothes they wear suggest involvement in crime such as; a leather jacket and a military style trench coat.

Target Audience Write Up

Thriller film Target audience profile

When constructing our thriller film we had to consider our target audience, their demographic and to research our target audience’s preferences as far as film and in particular thriller film.

Our target audience is 15-25 year old males who enjoy action films. When gathering research, we discovered that our target audience liked films like ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ and ‘Memento’ which eventually led to them being used as influences when constructing our thriller. 

During our research we discovered that our audience greatly admire the editing of such films like ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ and ‘Memento’ because they were vital to the narrative and the telling of the story. We found it important to get the pace of the film similar to other thriller films so the audience can feel a sense of familiarity. Our film appeals to those who’s psychodynamic would be aspires that go to watch a film to escape into a world in which they identify with an action hero.

The Bourne Ultimatum poster shows Matt Damon standing in the fore ground showing his role as an action hero that aspirers can identify with his character as a form of escape from reality.

We have taken a still from the film’s opening and used it as a poster.

The still here from the opening, is the protagonist looking at himself in the mirror for the first time since he awoke from not knowing where he was. This shows the gritty and dark atmosphere of the film, which appeals to our target audience.  He is looking for his identity, which the audience can relate to because they are always, is learning his identity as he is.

The genre of our thriller film is an action thriller; to advertise our poster shows our protagonist standing in a pose that is familiar in most thriller film posters this gives the audience their first impression of familiarity. The audience love action and the thrill that these films provide especially if they feel a familiar thrill they may have witnessed before and they get pleasure out of this. The pleasure that a generic mainstream thriller film can provide.