Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
During the making of our video, we have had to establish the fact that it is an opening sequence and must perform all the necessary elements usually used to create the feeling of an opening sequence. We included opening credits which introduce the film to the audience watching it and also had to think about camera shots, genre, visual style, ideology and narrative. All of these things are essential when trying to create a media product similar to ones you may see at the cinema.



Q3. What type of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Q4. Who would be the audience for your media product?


We tried to make our media product appeal to everyone. It has mainly been our friends that have seen it so far that have given us feedback as we cannot connect with people on a larger scale in such a short amount of time. I am sure that, given more time and knowledge of how more people could become aware of our media video, we would have a much wider variety and a larger number of comments. This would give us a clearer idea of how we could improve it if we were to continue editing, and also things we could work on if we made another video using similar techniques. We mainly showed friends and teachers our video at school whenever we were on a computer and there were other people around too. This enabled us to see their immediate reactions to the video and to ask them questions about what they like and don't like.
From assessing audience feedback, we realised that it was not easy to understand the storyline so we then came to the conclusion that we needed to add another scene. This scene was of my character in the bath being tortured by Kourtney. We decided to add this scene so that anyone watching it would realise that there had actually been a murder taking place. Before this, the reaction we got was that the audience felt that our final video was more of a romance rather than a thriller. This was because there was no second personality to Kourtney's character so she looked more innocent. We also originally had several sped up sections in the video which we had to take out. From watching the video, the audience said they could tell that we only included the sped up scenes because we wanted to put in the WHOLE scene rather than just a little bit. By taking out the sped up bits, we had to focus more on the way we would get the storyline across to the audience without including as much footage.
Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
During the process of planning and filming, the members of my group and I have learnt lots of new skills that we would need to film, edit and document our video.



Making our preliminary task really shows me how much my group members and I have progressed when I look at the work we have created now. The main thing we have learnt is how to use the editing software which is more of a practical progression. I have also learnt that continuity is very important when putting together a video to make it much more understandable and interesting. In our preliminary, we filmed one shot and the light was off in the room behind the door but in the next shot, using match-on-action, the light was on which is bad continuity. In our main piece, we made sure that each shot made a perfect transition into the next so that the audience was first of all not confused about what was going on and also impressed that we successfully made a shot that looked good without them noticing. The shot that we are proud of in our main video is the part where Kourtney and Jacob fall against a the wall as we feel it has good continuity and a good use of match-on-action.


Most of all, I think I have learnt that perfect time keeping and planning is crucial if you want to create a good piece of work. Also learning to work so closely with people has definitely been something I feel had progressed over time. Kourtney, Rachael and I have all been able to come up with some amazing ideas and pick out the best ones that work together to enable us to end up with a pretty good final piece. Since making the preliminary task we have been more understanding of eachother and the different ideas that we have. This has definitely helped us in making an opening sequence to be proud of.