Evaluation-What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation 2 - How does your media represent particular social groups ?

In our thriller opening, a character was introduced to the audience, it resembled someone of a modern day voodoo enthusiast, who takes practices in the art of black magic to achieve her goals. this low budget student film portrays many charcteristics which can be associated with certain social groups, whereby we aim that it can be positive though ca be percieved as stereotypical.

Though on the picture featured the character iis not shown in full, this shows mysteriousness which is associated with people who practice voodoo. Also, we get a sense of eeriness because her hand is clasping the book. Social groups that can be associated with this ind of theme would be african people because as i am of african origin, ive been taught that in certain parts of african black magic is practised. Also this is illustrated by the use of afrcan materials which have deep, rich colours suitable for a tribal mise en scene.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract/ adress your audience? (Evaluation question 3 & 4)

(The Screen on the Green)

To me my title sequence is a masterpeice but in reality it's a low budget student video. The kind of institution that would distribute my title sequence would be well known social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, then maybe after being viewed and liked by people on the internet it would make it's way to video sharing websites such as YouTube and Vimeo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwcg18UduKg -(This clip is proof that low budget student films can eventually make their way to video sharing sites such as YouTube)

The interenet is virtually the only way i could distribute and market my title sequence to potentially meet a global audience, because there wouldn't be enough funding to show it on television or a billboard. People would see and hear about my title sequence through word of mouth, social networking sites, posters and things like BlackBerry messages. The type of places that would show my title sequence would be community cinemas like The Screen on the Green (Where the whole years title sequences where shown and i got too view and comment on peoples short films). The type of audience it would attract would be a young social crowd aged around 15-25 just interested in seeing films made the community and supporting colleges that give their students a chance display their work in real world.

To conclude organistaions that support young children and young adults would almost definetley promote films like this, beacuse it exposes young people's talents and shows what skills can be learnt when doing certain subjects in college.

Who would be the audience for your media product? (Evaluation question 5)

My target audience is 15-25 because the title sequence is quiet a mature theme which some young viewers may find hard to grasp the concept. The type of person who would watch this film to me would be like this: "Malcom, 23 works in a electronic game shop, likes to watch different genres of DVD's his favourites are alien films, phycological thrillers and horror films. He shops north face and bilabong and doesn't have much of a socail life, he one day aspires to be a film director he's a big of Quentin Terition"

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

(This is a still picture from my title sequence even though it doesn't have a visible character it's still very similar to the picture below. The dominant red colours are the first thing the audience will see, and the women are basically representing the same thing, dark spiritual magic)

(This is an image of a vodoo priestess it's the kind of people/group my title sequence is trying to represent, the props in this picture are kind of similar to the ones used in my title seqence. The colours are almost the same aswell there colourful and dull at the same time)

My title sequence doesn't represent any particular social groups but if you want to put it into that context, you could say that it represents a certain type of people for example my films main theme is voodoo so people interested in voodoo are generally black and come from afro/carribean tribal backgrounds.
Even though the title sequence has no speaking or any characters the audience can tell that the hand belongs to a jealous woman, maybe a priestess of some kind. I think people who are generally interested in voodoo will like the use of props and the mise en scene because it's mystical and not something you see everyday.

Evaluation-How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In my thriller title sequence opening it did not have any particular representaion of one person. This was because we did not show the characters faces or body, we only showed the Voodoo girls hand. We did this because we did not want to constrate on a character we wanted to build and create a tense atmosphere which would make the audience want to know more. Even though we did not show a sterotypical chracter, we represented a social group by using our props and mise en scene. The social group we tried to portay was african witch craft/Vodoo. Our shots of the alter represented how some people have sterotypical belifes. For example; if you are african then you must be able to do vodoo. Our shots represented a jealious young girl being a typical witch doctor/vodoo impress. We showed this by having strange props such as the traditional african material and the voodoo bowl with all the different ingeridents going inside it. I believe through our camera work,mise en scene & sound we managed to portray the sterotypical voodoo impress and that she was doing something mysterious & evil. Here is image of the type of chracter we was trying to create =]

What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product? (Evaluation question 6)

This is a power point presentation of all the skills and technologies i have learnt.