Who would be the audience for your media product?

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

How did you attract/address your audience?

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

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

 

• using convergence with different media, linking movies to music and others 
•  distribution and how it has a big role in movie production also with global institutions such as sony time warner
•  ways of marketing a product eg. using adverts to promote your product using interviews with actors producers and directors,using posters,trailers,promoting it in festivals and also making screening before the movie is distributed.
• time management in making of the movie for example with our production we had 2         months to make and finalise the editing 
•  brainstorming and generating new ideas in this category i learned how to think of new ideas for my movie such as different genres.
• ideas about genre and about horror intro generally research into the genre also the importance of sound creation of ominous atmosphere, creation of suspense in everyday settings
• directing actors and getting the right mise-en-scene.

Questionnaire (Audience research) after screening

After editing the movie introduction, we had a small screening for a few people. After that, we got the audience to fill in a questionnaire and we got several different opinions. There were a few things they thought we should change such as making some scenes brighter, changing the corridor scene, making the sound clearer, changing the duration of the background music.

Questions:

1. Do you like the acting? 40%-yes
2. Do you think the mesesscene fits the genre? 85%-yes
3. Do you like the story line? 95%-yes
4. Do you think the 'mysterious person in the corridor' is a good idea? 80%-yes
5. Do you think we need to change that cut a bit? 60%-yes
6. Do you find the piano instrumental scary in a way that it fits the genre? 95%-yes
7. Do you think the sound and lighting is good? 75%- yes
8. Do you think the camera work is good? 70%-yes