Evaluation
Codes and conventions in our media product
Another obvious convention our media product included was dramatic edgy music to draw in the attention of the audience. Our film was set in an urban landscape which subsequently again fit in with the constant referral to the thriller codes and conventions. This urban landscape is shown to the audience through the fact our product was filmed in a garage. This may not appear obvious to the audience member, but the set does provide some clues to show the audience this is an urban landscape i.e. tools. This picture demonstrates how this can be seen. With this in mind it could be seen that our media product could challenge this convention. 
Partial vision plays a big role in our media product. As straight from the beginning of the sequence it starts making the audience ask questions. At the very beginning of the sequence partial vision is portrayed through a point of view shot. 
Again this makes the audience ask the question, whose point of view is this from? As there are more shot reverse shots through the sequence the audience begins to see more of what is happening on screen. This could be described as a form of protracted outcome, as the audience is left in suspense waiting to see who this person is. The two pictures show how partial vision is explored in our media product and in another blockbuster film. Partial vision is also explored during the shot where the door opens and the light creeps across the characters face. This is as the audience know someone is there but never gets to see this person. Again during this time the audience could be asking questions such as, who is opening the door? This question could arise during the point the door latch begins to turn. 
Subsequently this could challenge the protracted outcome convention, as the audience never sees this person this could lead to the audience being in suspense until the point the girl screams and the audience hear the outcome that this is the villain of the story. This is another convention of a thriller film.
Who does our product represent?
Prior to creating this product our audience research we collected concluded that the audience age that we would be satisfying was 15-17 year olds. This could suggest to us that the product we created then therefore had to represent this majority of people. As this age range is a young one this meant in our media product we had a young character. Although this character is 10 years old I believe that the audience could find her more relatable then an adult, this is as most people who watch this film would be able to relate to being ten years old. 
As through our audience research we found that most people would accept a film about domestic abuse this meant we could set our opening sequence around it. I found that as most people could relate to being 10 years old most couldn’t relate to being domestically abused. As most of our expected audience would have been raised domestically I find that this could mean the audience member could become attached to the character and begin to imagine themselves as 10 years old and being abused. This would make our film more controversial and interesting for the audience member. This shows me that our product could represent our target audience member. An example of a film that incorporates the two elements of young people and domesticated environments is Hide and Seek (2005). The main story line of this film is that a father is unknowingly causing his child mental harm. This means that the audience members can relate to this child as they have been that age and could imagine this happening to them. This means that in both films the audience member can relate to family problems. Our media product incorporates this message and represents a social group of 15-17 year olds in domesticated areas.
To add the effect of innocence to our character we chose to have the character wearing pyjamas. This therefore again allows the audience to relate to the character and represents how most 10 year old girls would dress. This addresses the stereotype that all young girls are innocent. This again is explored through the use of a teddy bear. The audience research found that this teddy bear enhanced the feeling of neglect; this meant that we were representing what the audience viewed as a code for neglect. This suggests to the audience that the girl is lonely and gives them a stereotypical view of what living with domestic abuse would be like. To represent our audience more we used the information from our questionnaire to find that children staring in to the camera was scary. This meant that subsequently we could use this in out sequence to represent the wants of 15-17 year olds.
To physically enhance the view that this child is domestically abused, we used make up to give the appearance that she had bruises on her face and a bust lip. This aloud us to clearly show the audience that we were representing the information they had given us about domestic violence being appropriate.
Who may distribute our media product
Our product has some obvious qualities that mean that it can be put in to some distribution categories automatically. As our product is set in Britain this means that it could be possible that it wouldn’t become a Hollywood blockbuster. More likely it would become distributed among British film companies such as Film Four. Film Four often have viewings of small budget films from Britain often i.e. Run Fat Boy Run. Subsequently our film is put in to the thriller genre; this also suits this particular company as they often have viewings of thrillers such as Slumdogg Millionaire. When looking at our media product this could mean that our target audience would be able to watch our product through this distributor. This is as are target audience is 15-17 year olds in domesticated environments. Consequently this means that they would be able to access this media distributor from home. 
With technology ever growing and younger people accessing the internet this means that another source of media distribution could be on the internet. This means that websites such as http://www.dogwoof.com/ can show our film to the audience we are targeting. Media product makers such as me can post my product on to the website and can have the possibilities to be shown to anyone accessing the internet. 
Another form of distribution to our target audience would be in the form of a film festival. This is an event where film lovers can come and watch low budgeted thriller films like our own media product. The Sundance festival allows people to watch these kinds of films and we can enter our own product to them for distribution.
With this in mind some extra extensive audience research we could have done would have been asking the person how they would usually access a thriller film such as our own. With this in mind I believe most people would have said on television or cinema. This suggests that Film Four could be the most appropriate form of Distribution we would use.
What will attract the audience to our product?
Through the use of audience research we have been able to understand our target audience. This gives us a clearer idea of what our target audience will want from our media product and what they will look like etc. The age range of our target audience seems to be 15-17 year olds. This is represented in the picture below. These people look like the type of people who would watch our film.
Due to their smiling faces and attitudes I expect that these teenagers have had a happy domesticated upbringing. This in turn means that they will be able to relate to some of the domesticated story lines within the product, meaning that they are obviously our target audience. AS the main character in our media product is ten years old, these people will be able to relate to being this age more clearly then the likes of 40 year old would be able to.
Preliminary task compared to final piece
My main preliminary task included one girl walking in to a room and having a conversation with another girl and then leaving. Immediately just within the plot line there is a huge difference between this and our finished product. This plot was not at all interesting for the viewer and did not challenge any codes and conventions of a thriller film. I think this change in satisfying the audiences need was due to the audience research we collected for the final media product. This research gave us a clearer idea of what the audience wanted from out product, such as tension, costumes, props, make up and what they expected of the film. This allowed us as directors and crew members feel more confident and reassured as to what we had to do on set. This confident made our final product look more professional and overall better then the preliminary. Some of the audience feed back we received after a viewing of the preliminary task was that the match on action wasn’t good. I feel that my group and I resolved this as the film looked very smooth and it was not commented on during the audience feedback for the final piece. One thing that was highly commented on during the audience feedback of our final product was that the music and graphics we used were to a higher standard ad gave the audience what they expected from our film. In our preliminary task we didn’t use this music or graphical techniques, so this in turn this resulted in the preliminary not looking professional, or satisfying the audiences wants. Whilst editing the preliminary product we found that we didn’t have enough takes to work with. To resolve this in our final media piece we took many takes. This meant that we had a wider range of takes to work with to make our film look at the most highest standard. Overall I see this Preliminary task as useful, as with out it we wouldn’t have realised some of these big mistakes and resolved them to make our product the best it could be.
Technology used
This is where at the end of the opening sequence Adalade as an adult sharply awakes, we decided to use this space as it looked mature enough for an adult, was easy to access and worked well with the feel of the overall film. It is a simply room with little artwork and is also very mellow this then worked again as there was nothing to draw attention away form Adalade.
There are more males here then females, this could mean that the majority of the resulsts we collected are biased from a male point of view. This could result in making a film that is more suited to the male gender rather then a female. This reasearch could have been more effective if we had asked the same amount of males and females in our data.
This is probably one of the most important questions that we have asked as it allowed us to continue asking the people questions who would understand what they were about. This question also told us how many people would know what genre the film was if we were to show it to a real audience showing.
Most people who answered this question chose creepy/scary and psychological. This tells my group and me that if we wanted are film to be one of the most enjoyable for the audience we should try and make our film fit in to these categories. The least popular option was a mixture of subgenres; this tells us that most people prefer thriller films that fit in to one clear subgenre.
