Evaluation Question Tasks - Task 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

This is our first title introducing our distributor (“Lionsgate”) We put “Lionsgate” in a bigger font so that is stands out more as it is more important than presents hence “presents” is underneath and smaller. We also did fade in/fade out effects for it to make it more interesting for the audience. Before we had a black screen with titles on it coming in and stopping the thriller now and then which didn't work as it lost the feeling of tension for the audience as it kept stopping for a few seconds.

The first frame is our main title and it builds impact as in the thriller the music stops and there is a sudden bang and the title comes on a black screen which makes it scary as it is a dark colour and it makes the audience jump with the bang. The bang also made it more dramatic and also the font of the title was big to give an abrupt, powerful ending to it.

The shot of the production designer is a good shot in my opinion as there is a lot of blood and the audience get a chance to see what is going to happen as there is a jar of poision with a bloody hand holding a syringe in it. The bloody hand is good as it will hopefully be gorey enough for the target audience to like it and this also says something about his character with his dirty bloody hands. Another thing i like about this shot is the credits as they are not too noticeable but they are still there at the side which is good so the audience can concentrate on the shot more than the credits. We also did the fade in/fade out effect on the credits so it is more interesting and also we made "production designer" smaller than the name as it is less important and also it makes it look more interesting and shows the audience what to look at when looking at the credits so they would look at the name first as it is more noticeable.

Editng our thriller made relatively fast to build tension and so we could get as much gorey meat cutting as we could in it as it is the main reason our target audience would be watching it. We made shots of our actor's face so that the quick edit reflects his character which is angry and the whole thriller portrays his character as a disturbed man who wants to kill people by poisoning meat.