Task 5:

pictures of the film:

before the jump, hero shot of James

Task 5: attract and adress the audience

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Task 4:

Ideal Target audience:

I think our ideal target audience would be young adults, universtity students -->educated.

I don't think it matters whether its a boy or a girl watching, because this affects both.

Aslo the social/financial ability should not be a problem, though a lot of people can't afford to go to a university, but there are scholarships, that people could get.

Still I think that the ideal audience will tend to be quite rich (which would be good for us as well, because they could support our product financially).

If we would choose such an audience, we would have to make the actual film more based on facts then on fiction, so that would still be entertaining, but also intellectual and a 'learning experience'.

Task 3:

Media Institution

We thought that lionsgate would be a good company for our film product.

We considered that they might be interested in our film idea, because they often do more individual films, like 'precious' that is now coming up and they also do presentations and festivals where we would have a chance to show our product.

Though they are an individual company, they still produce a lot of very well known films, which would be good, because we would want our film to be seen by many people.

Task 2:

Representation of Social Groups

The group we wanted to represent were bankers (in New York), especially because they are so rich at the moment, everybody complains about them, puts them under pressure and blames them for every financial crisis there is.

They often can't cope with that anymore and don't see a way out of this situation.

Especially when there are problems in the bank/company they are working in, they easily get depressed.

Evaluation Question Tasks:

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


We used conventional film titles for our sequence to ensure the audience is fully aware that this is a title sequence. We tried to avoid subverting convention so the audience were more focused on the event rather than the titles themselves.






We used the titles because the framework of expectations is built up by them.



By letting him die in the first two minutes, we challenged the usual audience expectation that the first person we see in the sequence is the main character of the film.










The opening sequence represents a restricted narrative, which means a narrative in which the audience learn what is happening at the same time as the characters.
The paper being thrown off the roof signifies an Enigma code, which is a plot device used to keep mystery in the narrative and draw the audience into the story.

Although we used conventional film titles, the product itself challenges the audience expectations by giving very little information away and killing off what appears to be the main character in the opening sequence.