Evaluation Questions

These are the questions we need to address in our evaluations:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups? 
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 
4. Who would be the audience for your media product 
5. How did you attract / address your audience? 
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? 

Trapped (Final)

After all the research and feedback we gathered and the excessive alterations, we are proud to say that this is our final movie opening that conforms to the conventions of the film industry:

  

Cliffhanger

At first, we were not happy with the ending because we felt that it was longer than it had to be. Our classmates agreed with us as they said it made them feel uncomfortable and uneasy. However, after further analysis the excessive pacing at the end builds tension as you find yourself waiting for something to happen, this causes you to sit on the edge of your seat in anticipation of what is to come. We realised that this unfulfilled anticipation hooked audiences to want to watch more. Our aim was to draw in audiences, and without realising it we had created a great cliffhanger that leaves audiences hungry for more.

Wiping Non-existent Tears

A student noticed that our actor was wiping her face when there were not any tears to wipe away. This was intentional as it emphasises the deterioration of her mental state. The fact she is wiping away imaginary tears suggests how she could be hallucinating or the fact that emotionally she wants to cry but physically her body is too drained to produce tears. This could also make the audience question whether she is guilty because she is clearly distraught over what happened to her 'friend' which makes you question is she is responsible of affected.  

Changes

• We cut the slow zoom shot of the mirror shot to edit out the cameraman 
• Added a few seconds to the establishing to extend the introduction 
• Made the fade to black a second longer between the production company and the establishing shot 
• Added laughing audio to flashbacks 

Adding Laughter Audio

One of the comments made by our classmates was to add audio in the background of the flashbacks because it seemed to missing something:

This is the audio we added: 

  /Users/asy12group4201617/Desktop/352558__jazzinda__sfx-girl-laughing.wav

Reflection

The feedback that we gathered was extremely constructive, it opened our eye to ideas we would not have thought of, had we not carried out this research. All the suggestions were insightful however, not all of them could be applied to our project due to the complications they would cause to the structure and continuity. An example of this is the recurring comment that the ending was too stretched out. Even though  re-filming this scene would have improved our project, there would be difficulties to maintain continuity because our actress had a hair cut which is clearly very different to her hairstyle in the original footage. This means we would either have to film all the scenes again so the mise-en-scene would be aligned or the more realistic option which was to just leave out the changes. Continuity has been the main reason we are so hesitant to re-shoot scenes as it could result in more inaccuracy's if the set is not the same as when we first filmed. 

For the time being we are going to focus on the improvements we can make through editing the footage we already have.