Media Evaluation - Question One

Question One

My media product uses and develops forms and conventions of real media products in many ways. A strong example of how we have successfully used this is with out personally created soundtrack. Our setting starts off as being simple but effective with a low amount of sound in the background. Using Soundtrack Pro we carefully mastered the settings of the volume within the piece to create the desired amount of levels. We discussed this as a group and came to the conclusion that this was successfully used as it would have been in a cinema hit psychological thriller.

We feel that as we edited the actual visual part of the film on Final Cut, using special effects, we correctly captured the right amount of levels. As we felt that it wasn’t exactly the easiest film opening to understand, we decided to add a voiceover into it to allow the watching audience to understand what was going on.

With careful regards to lighting, we used a special filter on Final Cut to allow the levels of light that would be projected onto the screen in the cinema, to be of a high state which we believe fitted the beginning of a psychological thriller. Although when we initially think of a thriller, we could think that it could be dark and eerie, but we wanted to try and challenge the forms of conventual media, we thought we would open up the light, as if it was part of a dream, which was our initial idea.

As with many thriller opening sequences, we found that we would place titles around the moving image but have some parts with a black background so the audience would have a chance to try and take in what they had just seen on the screen. We believe as a group, but it created suspense and tension while the audience watched it and to add fact that they would want to watch the rest of the film.

We introduced two main characters into the film; one of them having considerably more screen time than the other. We didn’t want to reveal too much throughout the opening sequence as we wanted the film to tell a story. As the voiceover fades out, we would want to action to start on screen to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.

In conclusion, as a group we believe that our film successfully captured and developed forms of conventual media products along the lines that the audience would be entertained.