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    The document discusses how the student used and developed conventions of the thriller genre in their media studies project trailer. They incorporated elements like building tension with slow music, incorporating twists by showing character role switches, and using dark scene settings. The student felt their magazine cover concept was most effective at conveying the two sides of the characters. Through research like questionnaires and film analysis, they learned planning and construction skills using technologies like iMovie, GarageBand, and social media for feedback. The student represents London black male teenagers, who have faced rising crime issues stereotypically in their film.

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    The document discusses how the student used and developed conventions of the thriller genre in their media studies project trailer. They incorporated elements like building tension with slow music, incorporating twists by showing character role switches, and using dark scene settings. The student felt their magazine cover concept was most effective at conveying the two sides of the characters. Through research like questionnaires and film analysis, they learned planning and construction skills using technologies like iMovie, GarageBand, and social media for feedback. The student represents London black male teenagers, who have faced rising crime issues stereotypically in their film.

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    The document discusses how the student used and developed conventions of the thriller genre in their media studies project trailer. They incorporated elements like building tension with slow music, incorporating twists by showing character role switches, and using dark scene settings. The student felt their magazine cover concept was most effective at conveying the two sides of the characters. Through research like questionnaires and film analysis, they learned planning and construction skills using technologies like iMovie, GarageBand, and social media for feedback. The student represents London black male teenagers, who have faced rising crime issues stereotypically in their film.

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    Media Dir Chair 2

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    The document discusses how the student used and developed conventions of the thriller genre in their media studies project trailer. They incorporated elements like building tension with slow music, incorporating twists by showing character role switches, and using dark scene settings. The student felt their magazine cover concept was most effective at conveying the two sides of the characters. Through research like questionnaires and film analysis, they learned planning and construction skills using technologies like iMovie, GarageBand, and social media for feedback. The student represents London black male teenagers, who have faced rising crime issues stereotypically in their film.

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    Marlow Green

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

    For my alevel media project i mainly focused on studying thrillers, during the
    time i spent analysing films i have acknowledged that thrillers tend to have
    many conventions that may range from quick cuts , eerie music, slow music, the
    use of shadow and darkly lit scenes, suspense/tension ,death and maybe a even
    twist. All these sort of things seems to a regular occurance in thrillers. For
    example in the film Batman the Dark Knight there is really a lot of dark scenes
    used along with tension building music throughout and even at the end of the
    film when The Jokers real intentions are revealed there is also a twist . In my
    trailer i have used and developed conventions of a thriller in several parts. In the
    beginnig part of my film with the use of slow music playing in the background
    and also slow black fades i was able to build up tension and suspense in which
    both are typically associated with thrillers. These convention was used and
    developed in my own way in which was able to suit my film .
    I was also able to add some sort of twist and again which was developed in my own
    manner in my trailer aswel. By me showing two character switch of roles from bad to
    good and from good to bad i was able to achieve this and hopefully viewers are able to
    interpret it in the same way in which i tried to portray this in my film. As these diagrams
    show there is and switch of role from good to bad and vice versa in both characters
    A third convention used in my trailer
    was the use of regret and depression as
    seen when one of the characters once
    shown to have committed a crime is
    then later shown to have regret on his
    face .

    A final convention i would mention


    me using in my film is the use of dark
    scene settings . At the very end of my
    film there is a scene which shown
    two males in the basement of some
    sort with one guy being tied up and
    another standing up with a weapon
    in his hand. The setting for this is
    generally dull and very dimly lit .
    Which is commonly used convention
    for trailers.
    Conventions of a film is also quite similar into that of a poster as in the mood both of them are
    trying to set. In various movie poster the mood can be set depending on the picture and colours
    used can give a sad or depressing feeling or an sinister , dark and isolated sort of presence. As
    from what could be seen from my poster i tried to impose a sad and isolated feel to my poster
    which reflects which comes from the picture and also the colours used and the fact that
    everything around my character is blacked out. I use this conventions in my poster as it was that
    sort of mood in which my film is trying to set. A n actual thriller poster which is also giving the
    isolated sort of feel to it is the batman the dark knight. This also gives the presense that batman
    is isolated and alone. The colours used for its also gives a dark feel to the film as a whole.
    2 . How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

    I think the combination of my main product was fairly well put together i beleive that
    areas of my main product was stornger in some then others as for example in my opinion i
    felt i did better in the work i put in for my magazine cover then i did for my film and poster
    but however i dont beleive that any of the latter two wasn't good . I think the idea i had in
    the magazine cover was well thought of and was a really smart as it was a good way of
    showing there is two sides to everyone. With showing half the face as good and the other
    half bad it showed that both of the characters in my film could do good but then again
    they had another side to them which in certain circumstances made them do bad aswel.
    However where i am critical of my whole package is the music and the beging for my
    trailer although i do think its good i do believe i may of been able to have an stonger
    instrumental one in which shows more compassion in it . I believe the acting in cerain
    parts of the film was great though some scenes in the trailer really captured the real
    emotion a person would be feeling had they been in a similar sort of situation. Generally
    speaking even though looking back needing only slight minor adjustments needed to be
    made it with a few adjustments only to be made i think with the dark mood set of the
    teaser trailer and also the dark feel towards the poster and the idea used of the magazine
    cover as a whole package it blends in well together. All these elements work as in how
    they are trying to make the viewer feel about the film. When hoever i do compare it to
    something like the dark knight as a whole pagage i do beleive that alothough my work is
    not as powerful as a whole i do believe certain bits of my work is better then that of the
    dark knight for example my idea for the magazine cover i believe sends out stronger
    then that of the dark knight. But when i compare my poster to that of the dark
    knight i think its slightly is better .
    3. What have you learn from your audience feedback?

    From my audience feedback i learnt that your work or certain parts may not exactly
    appeal to everyone. Upon letting people watch my film generally the comment was
    positive and many people enjoyed my work and the acting. There wasn't actually people
    who disliked the film but there was a comment of which someone didn't like the music i
    used for my film for the beginning part and thought it would have been better if the
    music used was more tension building, slower and have more emotion. However i
    believe this may be due to the age of the person who made the comment who was
    much older then the target audience i am trying to appeal to. With this being said the
    target audience i was hoping to appeal to are the one who enjoyed it the most and are
    the ones in which i got a better response from and also constructive criticism from.
    4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and
    evaluation stages?

    Research and planning-


    For my A level media project in order for me produce and end product which was my
    teaser trailer I needed to do some planning and research. During the research stages
    of the project I decided to conduct an questionnaire with the use of word to type it
    out and with this I sent it to people to answer via facebook and also i went to the
    streets of London to also hand it out. By handing out the questionnaires it enabled me
    to have an idea of what people what to see the age group and generally what they like
    and enjoy about films. i also used my mobile phone a in order to take pictures of the
    areas i scouted in which i would like to film in. With the planning of my magazine
    covers and film posters i needed to do research into what exactly they look and with
    the use of Google images i was able to do this. All this was put up to view on the web
    blogger which is an site in which you can set up for free of charge and blog about
    what's on your mind and your interests but in my case was used for my media
    production. One final media technology i used was YouTube. YouTube was very
    essential in helping me with research into films in general and teaser trailers, with so
    many trailers being a available to watch unlimited amount of times for free made it
    easy for me to gain a knowledge into the conventions of teaser trailer for example
    length of trailer, amount of shots length of shots ect
    Construction-
    During the construction of my media project i used various ways of making the film
    producing a film cover and also creating a magazine cover. For the construction of my
    film i used a an Sony video recorder in order to capture the footage for my film which
    will be later edited. Upon the filming had been finished i uploaded it to an imac and then
    started editing and sorting which clips i wanting and generally making it into a film with
    the use of imovie which i found quite simple to use. I also used an imac in order to
    construct the magazine cover for my project. The photos taken for my magazine cover
    along side my film poster was done with the use of a Panasonic 12 mp camera. I used
    this camera as to oppose to using my mobile hone as I believed that the picture quality
    of my magazine cover and film poster had to be much better as there were of significant
    part of my course whereas the scouting pictures was of less importance. As I learnt from
    my research it came across to me that in general film trailers have music of sort playing
    in the background to tackle this problem I used garage band which was installed on the
    imac in order to come up with the music and make it fit around the film and give the film
    more emotion to it.

    Evaluation-
    The evaluation part of my media project with the use of media technologies i already
    mentioned which helped me with the planning. The evalution part of my work came
    about from me posting my work up on facebook and getting the point of view of
    weather they liked it or how or what can i do to make it better. I posted my magazine
    Cover film poster and also my trailer to get constructive criticism from people. I also
    put my film on YouTube to get a view point of people from around the world and
    expand the range of people who watch it as people from different background and
    even different countries may have a different view point. I also evaluated my music i
    sued for my film over and over again with the use of the gargeband which is where i
    created the theme music in the first place and just checking if it matched my film in
    the right points i wanted it to.
    5.How does your media product represent particular social groups?

    In my media production i think that i stereotypically represented black male teenager


    of London. I believe this due to recently in the past couple of years knife crime and
    crime in general have been on the rise along with deaths. Typically in London black
    male teenagers between the ages of 14-19 have been the ones who committed these
    crimes . In my film i have all teenager boys between these ages two of which are males
    who of the black origin and two others who of a British white background. However in
    my film the people who where committing the crime are shown to be of the black
    origin . Even though not all black males are committing knife crime it seems more
    believable amongst those of the British public for them to be committing the crime
    rather then generally white males due to the way the media of today shows them as in
    means from newspapers to television. There for my film doesn't exactly help the
    negative stereotype but rather it enforces it . Now looking back i dont think it was the
    best of ideas to do this. I should of rather challenge it in some way and maybe chose to
    put the people who commit the crime as white people and the victims to be of the
    black origin.
    6. What institutions do you believe will distribute your media film

    I believe that a film institution like film 4 would distribute my film as my film represents life
    in the U.K which is of an realistic view point of British society so it would therefore appeal to
    the British market. Films like “slumdog millionaire” and “East is East "may convince film four
    to distribute my film due to the success these two films have achieved in the British market.

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