7)Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in progression from it to the product?

6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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5) How did you attract your audience?

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4) Who would be the audience for our media product?

The audience for our thriller are people aged between 16-25 years old, we know this because our thriller is similar to most conventional thrillers and the target audience is the same. Also because people aged 16-25 years old are the age group that most go to the cinema making them the bigger and target market.
We used many methods to think investigate into what our target audience want and what they like to see in thrillers.

First we used woodle to come up with some ideas on what questions to ask:

We used survey monkey to conduct a questionnaire:

After that we had a study group of about 6-8 people which we interviewed:

This process helped to invent and construct our ideas for the coursework, I think that our target audience would want to watch our thriller because it's fast paced and full of action.

3) What kind of Media Institutions might distribute your media product and why?

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2)How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The age range of our actors in the thriller was between 16-late 20s; which is also the age of our target audience. All four actors were male as they were the only actors we could get at the time to film as everyone was busy with their own thrillers, regrettably there were no female actors meaning no female representation. If given the chance to film again we would have used a female actor to play the part of the Mysterious Character.

Even though there was a lack of female characters, there was a range of different ethnicities covering a range of different culturally and class background e.g. middle class, working class etc. Sexuality presented in the thriller was intended as heterosexual, not saying homosexuality is bad, we just didn’t think too much into our characters and their ‘love life,’ our characters were more about self respect and overcoming their personal obstacles. The development of every and any character in any thriller, is what the audience engages and relates to the most whether it being similar personality traits or the situation they are trying to overcome in the film.

Stereotypes

In all thrillers a representation of a character is key to the storyline and the part they play, there is always going to be both negative and positive representations of certain characters depending on what their role is and what kind of a character they are.

In our thriller, our Henchman was stereotyped negatively as his role was to deceive and cause a temporally obstacle for our protagonist. The Henchman blends into everyday society as he is wearing the normal styles and brands people wear at 16-18 years old. He wears dark clothing and a body warmer. From another critics point of view our Henchman character could be stereotyped as what the media call ‘a chav’ because of the way he dressed and the harm he causes to those around him (being our protagonist).

Another stereotype was our Mysterious character as he was dressed in dark clothing; which we associate with ‘evil’ characters.

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