From the survey above me and my group have learned that the age groups from the ages of 19-22 would be most likely to watch our thriller whilst the least amount of people who wouldn't go to view it would be those ages 14 and under. This is mostly because the genre of my group thriller is a fantasy adventure film, because i think that the younger generation would rather see an action film or comedy film. Also because of the story line would not really impress teens and children to view it because they would simply not get the concept of the short film and it wouldn't really attract them.
The pie chart suggests most viewers was aged 18-24 this may be because the subliminal messages of our short film is to find yourself and motivates our audience in following their dreams. In conclusion, the message of our short film is to follow a path until you reach your map (dream) to success and happiness.
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? The big production companies, are mostly likely not take my completed thriller into consideration, as my media product story line, hasn't been published, developed or produced before. This could mean that they face a huge risk of losing money if it doesn't become successful in the box office. This is too big of a risk for the big production companies to take. These big production companies prefer developing existing films and creating sequels, as it has a higher chance of being successful, due to the success it has had before. For example, Fast and Furious has had 7 sequels, as every sequel has been successful and always generates profit, so they would repeat those so they wouldn't lose money.
However, I distributed it through social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat because I have a lot of followers on both my Instagram and Snapchat so I knew my followers would enjoy seeing what I have been working on for all this time as I used to keep them updated. And this benefited us because these were ways we promoted our film for free. But as Instagram and Snapchat videos could only be about 10-15 seconds long, showing them a few clips of the interesting scenes. YouTube and Facebook was useful because you are able to have a long duration of videos and it can be accessible to everyone and it will be easy for them to share it with their friends and family.
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The key convections used in most thrillers are:
Suspense
Tension
Fast pacing
Red herrings
Cliff Hangers
Action
McGuffin
A McGuffin is a plot device in the form of some goal or an achievement in the film that the main characters in the film seem to focus on a lot making it seem like their main goal in the movie.
The audience aren't really engaged about what happens in terms of the McGuffin as they are more likely to more intrigued about the characters of the film. In me and my group thriller the plot device is the map in which Lord Healey is trying to recover to restart the human race.
Suspense is used in me and my group thriller film in a number of very effective ways. Suspense is firstly used by the background music which takes place throughout the thriller film, the music gives a sense of adventure., when he is picking items, so the audience is wondering what is he trying to do?The background music is taken from the theme song of award winning PlayStation 4 Game ''The Last Of Us'' the song was made by Gustavo Santaolalla.
Another way suspense was created in our thriller film was the story-line because with each scene passing suspense builds up into revealing if Lord Healey retrieves the map or not.
Also we added many filming techniques to add suspense. Firstly, we used an eyeline match to add suspense, as it puts a question in the audience heads, as they wonder what the protagnist was looking at. Also we used POV shots, to add the thrill into our thriller as it makes the audience feel like their in the protagnist position, making this a very effective shot.
A cliffhanger is when the film ends in suspense. The cliffhanger in our thriller "Road to London" is the audience isn't sure if Lord Healey recovers the human race with the map he found in the end. The film ends with Lord Healey walking in the distance. This leavers the audience with a question in there head, what is going to happen next? Examples of Cliffhangers
Examples of eyeline match:
Both of these eyeline matches are very professional, as it adds suspense to what the protagonists are looking at. The audience would want to know what the characters are looking at.
After screening our thriller we received lots of positive feedback and criticism from our audience. Many people felt that the film had an interesting idea that managed to draw them into in and said that they would like to watch the rest of the film. However many people felt that the film needed to be faster paced and have more conventional elements of a thriller. Some people also said they would of liked some dialogue in the film.
In this, we had to show our thriller to a class, to see if they liked our thriller. we gave them a questionnaire to fill out to see if they liked our film and see if there any way we could improve our film. We got many positive feedback, better than our rough cut, which was a good sign.
