Evaluation Question 7

Question 7 asks the question "Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the main task?"
 The dialogue involves:
One thing that we found that was different from our preliminary task to our main thriller was the planning. During the planning stage of our preliminary task, limited time was spent on research, and trying to find out what kind of things would be best for our task. Examples include storyboarding. As you can see, little time and effort went in to this stage of planning due to the fact that as amateurs, we thought that it was not important and we will improvise when we start to film. As you can see, continuity errors occurred and may damage the outcome and grade of the film.  From these errors, we learnt to take more care in our main thriller production and to thoroughly plan our production including the storyboard, audience etc. 
Also, we have learnt how critical research is in affecting the outcome of your production. Again limited research was done on existing preliminary tasks and what would help us be successful and what we need to avoid. This would lead us to go down a route which would not benefit us in reaching out to a wide audience as things like drugs and a drug deal do not appeal to a wide audience. Therefore, during our main production we tried to get as much research as possible on conventions of a thriller, previous work, the difference between and good production and a great production and overall how to be generally successful.
In addition, another thing we found that was different from our preliminary task to our main thriller was the post production. During this stage on our preliminary task, we had little experience on the editing software PremierPro and this lead to us take less care when coming to things like titling and effects. Because of this, we were not able to have a successful finish to our task and it looked less professional. From this, we learnt that post production was vital in turning your production from something average to a professional piece of work. We took time in titling to make them look proficient, we took time and care in effects to give the flashbacks in the production an edgy and eerie feel and we just wanted to make what was happening as believable as possible.
Finally we found out how many times we needed to shoot different types of shots, from our preliminary task we can see that certain shots are shaky, not in focus so, when going to the main production, we took more shots until we were happy that the shots we were doing were correct and worthy of being in our production.

Evaluation Question 6

Question 6 asked "What have you learnt from technologies from the process of constructing this product?" I have used a program called 'Gliffy' and have embedded it to this post.

Evaluation Question 5

Question 5 asked "How did you attract/address your audience?" Despite this being similar to question 4 I still decided to do them both separately as I could reach further into detail. I answered this question using Prezi.

Evaluation Question 4

Here is my response for the question asking "Who would be the audience for your media product?" made using Spicynodes. I wanted to embed the question into this post but for some reason it wouldn't show. I have attached the link to it instead below, enjoy:
http://www.spicynodes.org/a/3a1af52d2f0321c1ec4634eb6c46005f

Evaluation Question 3

Question 3 asked "What kind of institutions may distribute your media product and why?" I answered the following on a site called Padlet - a pinboard style website making it easy to present all my ideas and options.

Created with Padlet

Evaluation Question 2

We decided to answer question 2 with a YouTube video. Here me and Lewis talk about how our media product represents particular social groups.

Evaluation Question 1

Question 1 asked "In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?" The following has been answered in a PowerPoint presentation and shared through slideshare.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? from BenLocking07

Final Production | Duct Tape

The thriller opening 'Duct Tape' has been finished and has been uploaded to YouTube. I am pleased with the outcome and feel that me and Lewis have done a good job of making an effective opening. I feel that the titling and shots that are associated with it have been done well. Enjoy!