Evaluation Q7: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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

Evaluation Q6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of creating/constructing this produ

Evaluation Q5: How did you attract/address your audience?

5) How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Q4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

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

From all of our feedback from our rough cut, our screening and our survey monkey questionnaire we could tell that our thriller is aimed mainly aimed at the youth. 

I think the youth would watch our film because of the intense and very fast paced scenes. 
I think that the youth are intrigued by very thrilling and almost scary moments in movies. 

Evaluation Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

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

Evaluation Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

In our thriller we have an all female cast which helps us challenge the stereotype that men are always the antagonists, i think the fact that we challenged the stereotype of men being the bad guys is positive for our thriller as it is different from many popular thrillers that very often have the men antagonists.

Our casts is supposed to represent characters that are in their early twenties which can give a god representation of what kind of things young people do, our thriller makes young people look like they are out of control and reckless. We didn't really consider the sexuality of our characters as they all play little parts and there wouldn't be enough time to show sexuality. 

We tried to represent all our characters as middle class, to do this we dressed them in quite casual clothes and made them speak how they normally do as they are all in the working/middle class area. We used the stereotype of the scary person in the hoodie, to add tension, this is a stereotype because there are many thriller movies that have that scary hooded figure in the shot, we can see this in our thriller at the end when the antagonist is standing over the protagonist, this is to show that the antagonist is trying to intimidate the girl on the floor and it shows a gain in power. We also see this in the film 'Shifty'. We see Shifty trying to intimidate the two young adults, by standing over them with his hood on this gives him a scary and intense look. I think the 'scary hoodie' stereotype is quite positive to our thriller as it creates the sport of intense atmosphere that we were trying to create.

Evaluation Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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

Some conventions of the thriller genre are;
- fast paced scenes 
As seen in the movie  "Fast and Furious" 


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- frequent action
As seen in "A Good Day to Die Hard"



- resourceful heroes
As seen in "North by Northwest"
















- powerful villains
As we see in the thriller movie:"Psycho"















- the plot is villain driven. 

- the villains present the obstacles.

- suspense -> creates excitement. 

- red-herring -> villain tricks audience that they are good.

- cliffhangers -> dramatic ending.

- setting -> exotic places and popular cities.

                                                



The thriller conventions that we used in our thriller piece, were Cliffhanger to leave the audience wanting to watch on to see what will happen next. We also had many fact paced scenes that created tension and excitement. We created suspense by adding in flash backs which i think was quite affective. 













Films like "Olympus has fallen", "Die hard" and "Hostage" are similar to ours, all these movies including ours includes hostage type scenes.

Our film is unique, due to the fact that we have added a feminist subversion to the typical thriller genre.

I compared the scene when the antagonist is walking towards the protagonist to the scene from "The Forest" when Sara Price (played by Natalie Dormer) is walking through the woods. I think these scenes are quite similar as they both create a very intense and eerie atmosphere.

I compared the scene from my thriller when the protagonist is in the chair to a scene from "Reservoir Dogs" when this man is kidnapped and held hostage. these scenes are similar to each other because they both show someone restrained and not able to move. Also these two scenes are in similar lighting, they're both quite dark although from our thriller it is almost too dark that you can't see the person.

Then I compared one of the running scenes from my thriller and compared it to a scene from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1" this is the scene where Harry, Hermione and Ron run away from the snatchers. My scene and this scene are similar because both the protagonists are trying to run away from the antagonist.