Evaluation on the experience.

Overall, i have enjoyed creating this thriller with my other members of the group. I felt that we worked well as a team and helped each other out by giving advice and putting alot of input into new ideas on our filming. Although, we found it hard finding days to shoot that all four of us could make and it made it very difficult and resulted our group to become a little behind in our filming, editing and blog work but it all worked out well in the end and this whole experience has taught me to work better as a team.

I have found it a very enjoyable experience as i did not take Media in GCSE and it was something that was completly new to me but also a challenge. I have enjoyed learning something that interests me. I have also learnt alot during the preliminary and main task. I have tried out new technology that i haven't previously used such as Apple Macbooks (and the software such as iMovie & Garageband)and Using a camera and tripod. I have never been used to the Apple Macs but i have now learnt alot from this experience.

For our evaluation, we all took part by creating four slides each and putting it into the presentation. This showed that we all were determained to work as a team and put even input towards our work. We then recorded ourselves evaluating each of our slides using the schools camcorder and then we were planning to upload it for the final post of one of the Evaluation Activities. Unfortunatly due to a certain format error between the mac and school computers, we were unable to upload the presentation on our blogs ontime which we were all dissapointed about.

Evaluation- Activity 7

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




From previous feedback from our preliminary we have learnt to:

-Use a larger variety of shots

-Crop our wide shot slightly to enhance audience focus


-Use a few more close-ups
during the interview


-To monitor our mise-en-scene
and make sure there is
nothing (e.g. inappropriate bracelets)

Evaluation- Activity 6

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

Evaluation- Activity 5

How did you attract/address your audience?



We attracted and addressed our audience by-

• Using young actors that will appeal to our target audience of 15-25. It is important that we use actors of a certain age as generally in movies, younger people want to watch films with younger actors in it.
  
• The film is set in the modern day which the audience will be familiar with.
  
• The music from the opening scene sounds simular to the music from ‘Kill Bill’ which is another thriller film targeted at our audiences age group. The music hopefully influences Fans of 'Kill Bill' into watching our product.

• The use of attractive actors will also appeal to our target audience.

• The location is a modern, everyday home which our audience would see as ‘normal’ as apposed to a mansion being used.

• The theme is relatable as our target audience is about to leave school or has left school and will have witnessed/understood bullying.

• The film includes murders and blood which will appeal to the age group as they may not watch PG or 12 films because of their lack of terror.

Evaluation- Activity 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our product is aimed towards the 15+ target audience as we think this age range would be suitable as our product contains a lot of violence, blood and gore. Although a 12A rating would attract a wider audience, going by Ofcom guidelines, our film would legally need a 15 certificate.

The actual targeted age range we’ve decided to use would be 15-25 as we have based our thriller on young adults aged 20+, so therefore should attract that age of audience.

They would shop in places that would buy our type of product such as high street shops such as HMV and Virgin Mega store. They would not shop at a particular clothing outlet as it depends on their stereotype which could be gothic or chav.

People aged 15-25 may listen to different types of music as quite a lot of the targeted audience have a preferred type of genre. Our product is more likely to attract young people who are stereotyped as ‘Goth’ or ‘Emo’ because our product is about death and murder and as its quite twisted so therefore they would listen to music such as Heavy Metal, Screamo, Rock or Indie.

Their favourite TV shows could be on Drama, especially based on conventions that are typical to the younger generation e.g. Drugs, Sex, Violence, such as Skins and Misfits. Other Television programmes that our target audience would be attracted to could be Prison break or Lost.

Evaluation- Activity 3

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

This is our directors commentary.

The 'Distorted Productions' Logo:

We made this logo by using a simple logo creator website online. We chose the name 'Distorted' productions because we thought it was a good way to describe a production of a thriller that is quite twisted and creepy.

Production companies are in charge of the process of producing a film. Distorted productions would be in charge of the physical production and development of the film. Production companies often raise their own money for the film, through sponsors or contracts .

Our Distributor

The distributor that we have chosen are Lionsgate. Lionsgate is a very successful company which has distributed many famous films such as Saw.
They have distributed many thriller films for the past 14 years. They have also distributed hundreds of other films under different genres.

We thought that Lionsgate would be an appropriate distributor for our product as we feel our thriller is very simular to many of their thrillers with alot of violence and gore.

Evaluation- Activity 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?




Our key character is Oliver, The murderer. He is first introduced in our opening scene as our main character in our thriller
This character is similar to the Patrick Bateman in the film ‘American Physco’ – directed by Mary Harron.

The role in the film

In ‘Class of ’92’, the character of Oliver leads a double life. His friends, co-workers and family know him as an ordinary married, business man… but they don’t know of the secret he keeps locked in his shed - his alternate psychopathic ego. He is actually a serial killer determined to kill his carefully chosen victims who think they are his friends. The friends were actually people who bullied him in school and gave him a hardtime throughout his years of childhood. In comparison....
Patrick Bateman in ‘American Psycho’ also leads a double life. He is a wealthy business man who hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his friends and co-workers.

The appearance/costume

The appearance and costume of both characters are very simular. They are both wearing smart business clothing such as Black blazer, white shirt, black shoes. The point of them dressing in ordinary smart clothing is so that none of them appear like a stereotypical killer that you would find in a normal thriller and so that you wouldnt expect them to be a psychopathic murderer.