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Hey everyone, this is our finished media product:

Q7-Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the main task?

For some reason I cannot embed my question 7 so here is a link to it: https://bubbl.us/?h=2e3e3a/673383/30Y1PyJfjJv.w&r=503678739

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

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Q5-How did you attract/address your audience?

This is our video for the evaluation question 5:

Q4- Who would be the audience for you media product?

Q3-What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?

Q3 from kieranlukas

Q2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Q1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challange forms and conventions of real media products?

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

Reflections on the shoot

Hey everyone, so what ill be doing is reviewing how well the shooting went. The place we filmed was quite discrete and we didn't have much trouble with people walking by, only on one occasion with a couple walking past and asked what we was doing, but from that I think it went really well. We got some nice shots and lucky for us the weather stayed fine so it wouldn't ruin the continuity in final production. However, their was one problem when we didn't know whether to use the go pro or shoulder mount but in the end we knew what was best and came to a conclusion. Overall I was happy with the footage me and my group got.

preview of our work so far

Hey here are a couple of previews of our work so far, enjoy!  

Binary oppositions

Hey, in todays lesson we learnt about Levi Strauss idea of binary oppositions. He was a French anthropologist who lived in the early 1900's. He believed that the way we understand certain words doesn't depend not so much on any meaning themselves directly contain, but much more by our understanding of the difference between the word and its 'opposite'


Mostly we see binary opposites in thrillers because they have them in their plots. Frequently we see the opposites of hero vs villain or supernatural vs human. In the thriller context we have to use theses opposites because it engages the audience with the film.

One page pitch

Storyboarding

Storyboarding from kieranlukas

Narrative codes

In todays lesson we learnt about different theorists ideas and how they can be applied to the media. For example Levi Strauss argued that narratives depended on binary opposites or conflict between the two terms. These can establish who the 'good' and 'bad' characters in a narrative
Examples of binary opposites can be:
Hero vs Villain
Male vs Female
Insecurity vs Insecurity
Good vs Bad


Furthermore, another theorist called Roland Barthes devised five different codes that we can use when analysing media products they are:
Action code
Mystery code or enigma code
The semic code

The cultural code

Code of opposition

These codes help the audience recognise what will happen in a certain film. The action code is what we interpret what will happen next. For example, somebody packing a back we automatically think that they are fleeing or going on holiday.

We also watched a clip from the good, bad and ugly. Using Barthes' theory  we can see straight away hat the action code is in use. For example at the start of the scene we see some western people are directly starring at each other, from this we can infer that their will be a duel to take place.

Risk assessment

This is my risk assessment what was needed to be carried through in order to film in the location we want, we have listed the risks and what we could do in order to prevent these.

Props and equipment used for our production

Props and equipment used for our production from kieranlukas

Uses and Gratifcation

Hey guys, today I'm going to be talking about the uses and gratifications theory. So, what is the uses and gratifications theory?


Uses and gratifications theory is an approach to understanding why and how people actively seek out specific media to satisfy specific needs.


Bulmer and Katz theory suggests that we chose to watch certain programmes it satisfies a need-we USE a programme to GRATIFY or please ourselves.
 
We identify the four main uses and gratifications as:


Information/Education

• being able to acquire information and understanding about relevant events
• learning/self-education
• seeking advice and influence on decision making

Personal Identity

• seeking model behaviour
• gaining insight into one's self
• finding reinforcement for personal values
• establishing role model values similar to yours

Social Interaction

• finding a basis for conversation
• gaining a sense of belonging
• enabling one to connect with others
• social empathy (understand another's experience)

Entertainment

• escaping the stress of reality and relaxing
• emotional release
• receiving aesthetic enjoyment filling time
• sexual arousal

Screenplay

Criteria

In todays lesson we covered the criteria that what are thriller openings would be marked on. We watched some old students thriller openings and gave them a level which we thought was appropriate. It was quite a shock to see that we was getting the levels completely wrong...

            

In this thriller opening I gave it a high-level 2 this is because at first the titling was really affected and it went with the camera shots used and made sense. However after the titling it just didn't really make sense and the sound was quite poor. Overall it got a high level mark because "Evidence of proficiency in the creative use of [technical aspects]".

Overall what I have learnt from this is that its going to be hard to achieve our thriller in how we imagine it will be in our head. As long as we do enough research and planning it could be quite successful, but we need to make sure we follow the criteria in order to achieve a high mark
 

Audience theories

Audience theories from kieranlukas