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?

The finished product

Finally finished the thriller after many months, many refilming and hours of editing. It's finally finished, and I'm very proud of all our hardwork as a team.
Here it is, enjoy.

Poster!

Filming

Today we re-filmed and included some extra shots to add to our thriller. The film experiment, that I posted couple of weeks ago, we included to use today which will then fade into the title of the film 'The Search Engine.'
Last time we filmed the lighting was dark; but today we tried to vary the lighting, using natural lighting coming in from the windows as well as using some artificial light. This time re-filming, we also varied the shots to add interest.

When editing we took on board the constructive advice our media teacher gave us when we asked him for advice, so to keep up the pace we kept the editing fast paced.
Here is Ezekiel editing the footage:

The Mysterious character and New scene locations

The mysterious character is the one who lost the information when it was in his possession, he plays a minor role like a plot device.For the new scene we used one of the media rooms (below)

The MYSTERIOUS CHARACTER is a rude and secretive character who rarely speaks adding to the mystery. He is dressed in black; which is a dark colour we associate with moral corruption and 'evil.'

Production Process:Editing

Today we started the editing process! Before editing we looked over the footage, to see what scenes to use, as a team. Most of the clips were good; but there were some desired shots that were missing and would help to show diversity in shots and view points of the characters. Later this week we'll refilm or/and film extra shots using varied angle shots and lighting etc.


The first part of the opening, when the titles are running, fast paced editing was used to create a tense atmosphere, making the titles interrupt the scene helped to enhance this effect. In the opening sequence the effect we wanted to convey was to make the audience feel just as confused, paranoid and tense like the protagonist. 

The titles were created in Livetype; which ha proved a useful multi-use program to use and effective to our thriller.
After we edited the phone booth scene and the antagonist scene, including adding music and titles, the duration of the coursework came to just about a minute. To make the opening sequence longer I suggested to write another scene, so I wrote a scene where the protagonist finds the memory stick. 

This did help to increase the time, and tomorrow we will be filming some more shots to add to the scene; but this time we are doing to vary the range of the lighting instead of just being filmed in near darkness. After filming some the extra shots and edit them hopefully we can add extra features such as sound effects etc.

John le Carre

John le Carre is a famous British writer who has written many Spy Thrillers, he has written many novels which some have been made into films and television shows such as 'Tinker Tailor Solider Spy' (film and tv series) and 'The Spy who came in from the cold.'

 Here is some more information I found about John le Carre on Wikipedia
Films

• In 1965, Martin Ritt directed the first film adaptation of a John le Carré novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, with Richard Burton as protagonist Alec Leamas.
• In 1966, Sidney Lumet directed The Deadly Affair, an adaptation of Call for the Dead, with James Mason as Charles Dobbs (George Smiley in the novel).
• In 1969, Frank Pierson directed The Looking Glass War, with Anthony Hopkins as Avery, Christopher Jones as Leiser and Sir Ralph Richardson as LeClerc.
• In 1984, George Roy Hill directed The Little Drummer Girl, with Diane Keaton as Charlie.
• In 1990, Fred Schepisi directed The Russia House, with Sean Connery as Barley Blair.
• In 2001, John Boorman directed The Tailor of Panama, with Pierce Brosnan as Andy Osnard, a disgraced spy.
• In 2005, Fernando Meirelles directed The Constant Gardener, with Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle, set in the slums in Kibera and Loiyangalani, Kenya. The poverty so affected the film crew that they established the Constant Gardener Trust to provide basic education to those areas. John le Carré is a patron of the charity.
• In 2011 Tomas Alfredson directed Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley. The film was released on the 5th September 2011 at the Venice Film Festival in the UK on 16 September 2011.

Television

• In 1979, the BBC adapted Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy to television, with Alec Guinness as George Smiley. Two years later, in 1981, he reprised the role in Smiley's People. The BBC did not adapt The Honourable Schoolboy, featuring Jerry Westerby (Joss Ackland in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), because production in East Asia would have cost too much.
• In 1987, Peter Smith directed the television adaptation of A Perfect Spy (BBC), with Peter Egan as Magnus Pym, and Ray McAnally as Rick.
• In 1991, Gavin Millar directed A Murder of Quality (Thames Television), with Denholm Elliott as George Smiley, and Joss Ackland as Terence Fielding.

Radio

• The 1994 BBC radio adaptation of The Russia House features Tom Baker as Barley Blair.
• The Complete Smiley is an eight radio-play series, based upon the novels featuring George Smiley, that commenced broadcast on 23 May 2009 on BBC Radio 4, beginning with Call for the Dead, with Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley, and concluding with The Secret Pilgrim, in June 2010 .^[28]

Writing Style
"the le Carré Cold War features unheroic political functionaries aware of the moral ambiguity of their work, and engaged in psychological more than physical drama"

John le Carre builds tension psychologically as he builds the story developing his plot creating complexity. As his story progresses the reader is collecting and building a case study; which gets the reader on and helps to identify with characters in the novel. Le Carre includes false heros like in 'Tinker Tailor Solider Spy' creating paranoia and espionage as no one can be trusted. There are political elements to most of his earlier/popular works, which involve democracy and how as humans we can be fallible. His novels contrast Ian Fleming's James Bond which is rather glamorous in comparison, it's not until his later works 'The Naive and Sentimental Love' that he became more mainstream.