Evaluation question 5

 How did you attract/address your audience?

The way we attracted/addressed our audience is by showing how a different group of people (Gangsters) live their lives, so instead of watching normal, everyday people in a film, we thought that showing how Gangsters live their lifes.
 Another way that we try and keep the audience attracted is the way we set the out the music, the music relates to the characters in the opening scene (suspicious type music). The music builds up tension then stops when the guy gets shot. The next time music plays it shows the guy dead lying on the table.

Evaluation question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The type of audience who would watch our media product is mostly people between the ages 16-24. The main reason for this is because younger audiences normally tend to go the the cinema mainly for social gatherings also they have more time to spare than adults do. Also groups of people would watch our media production due to who mainly be in the production e.g. certain age groups would want to wach certain actors/actresses. If we got a big named actor in ouir film e.g. George Clooney then more people would come to watch it then if someone was less good as an actor.

Evaluation question3

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

The type of institution that would distribute our media production would be a small institution such as FilmFour. The reason for this is because the audience would much smaller than an audience who would watch a film which is produced by a larger institution. Seeing as the movie would have a small audience, the mmoney which would be produced wouldn't be enough to support the larger company. It would be good to have a smaller institution because the audience who will watch will be looking for an in-depth storyline, they wouldn't be intrested in the special effects or any well known actors who are usually act in the big movies.

Evaluation question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Representation of Gangsters

• In our opening the black clothes of the shooter(Shaun) represents the evilness of his character this is normally shown in criminals seeing as thy often have sinister agendas. Gangsters also aim to be hidden, as a result of this they normally tend to wear black/ dark clothes which blends in with the blackness of the night
• Most Gangster movies are set in a night-time setting, This is typical of a Gangster film because most crimes happen at night-time and being dark in the opening scene gives the characters be dark, evil, sinister feel about them
• A typical Ganster  opening shows a seedy, intimidating area - this is because this type of area is a typical hang out for Gansters

Representation of women:

• High heels signifies the sex the appeal of women through lengthening the legs - one of the most attractive parts of a woman
• Bare legs have a similar effect as the heels as it draws attention to the woman's legs and the bareness of them creates a sexual appeal
• The colour Red resembles passion and boldness it will show this on the woman and it will make the character stand out this will make her a point of focus during the opening.

• Operatic music is typically associated with gangsters so we have put a certain background music in our opening to give the audience a feel for the type of film and our will persuad the audience to believe the character is going to be evil in some sort of way.
• The fact the character carries a gun shows that he is Gangster/evil

Evaluation question 1

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

How we used forms of conventions:

• Like every film opening, we put the title of the production company first and then let the very beginning of our footage flow into the last title which is the name of our film. This is done by fading from black and letting the sound continuing from the black between transitions.
• In our production, we used the conventions of a gangster film we included codes which included guns, cigars, whiskey,
• We created a film noir appearance of the film, it is typical of a gangster/crime film, we done this by putting a black and white filter over the footage and heavily contrasting the light used.

How we developed form and conventions:

• We created an enigma,we kept diaglogue to a minimum, we done this so that we did not give away  of the context of what is to come in the film
• Like film openings, we didn't give much away about the characters however, we did introduce the main ones.  The victim is the only character in which whom the audience mainly associates with but the main, sinister figures (the woman and the shooter) are not to be understood as that is what the film aims to explain, this is done to keep the audience watching the film. We tried not to include much of their faces, this is done to keep this detachment from the audience.

How form and conventions are challenged :

• Most gangster films we looked into had more dialogue in the beginning, it would either, be a voice over or a conversation between characters, we felt there would be more suspense would be created if we did not have much dialogue. And also, it means the audience can focus more of the visual aspect of the opening rather instead of focusing on what is being said.

Next draft of the opening

Here is the next draft of our opening to the film. It is more detailed and it has more effects in than the first draft. Titles and Lauras voice over still needs to be added, once this is completed then the opening of the film will be complete.

Filming Finished !!

Here is the last picture of us filming. We managed to finish filming a week before easter. Seeing as Shaun is the best person for the editing, he volenteered to edit the video.We also came up with the production name and the presentation of it after we finished filming. Here is what it looks like. After a while of thinking what production name we finally came with a name which Shaun thought of and both me and Laura thought that it was a good name.