The Final Piece, A Soul's Redemption

I present to you, A Soul's Redemption.

Question 1 - In what ways does ypur media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our media product we decided that our main character, Bertie would be young character who was of a school age. This we thought would seem good as his age may give of the idea that he is more vulnerable than say an adult. As Bertie was going to be possessed, we wanted him to be more vulnerable and less able to fight back; which I think we portrayed well in our production, the part in particular when Bertie was upset with what he had become. Another thing we aimed to make Bertie was to contrast with the idea of him being vulnerable, and was the typical ideology that males are dominant and often become heroes by saving someone or something from the antagonist. This made it hard for us to show both the vulnerability of Bertie as well as his ability to fight against the antagonist. This is because Bertie at times was both the protagonist and antagonist. Therefore we are sticking to a stereotype, that children are more vulnerable; but also challenging it as Bertie is both the protagonist and antagonist.


we tried to stick to usual scary locations in our thriller as we wanted to use typical conventions of thrillers with low key lighting. Therefore we chose a wood as our setting. As teenagers often go camping and walking in woods. Which is why we included Anna walking through the wood. This is why we thought this would be an appropriate location for filming. Additionally woods are stereotypically calming and relaxing to be in.


Furthermore we wanted our target audience to be able to relate too. This is another reason why we portrayed teenagers in our opening. Also us being teenagers ourselves we knew first hand how we wanted to represent actors in our film and what we would look for as a target audience. This is why we gave characters similar values to ours, which is a use of gratification we needed in our thriller opening.

Question 3 - What king of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?

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Question 4 & 5 - Who would be your audience and how did you attract them?

Question 6 – What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

 

The main software we used to create our media product was Premiere Pro. Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application by Adobe. My group used Premiere Pro consistently throughout both my preliminary and the final production. We used Premiere Pro as we was already familiar with it and how to use it from our preliminary. Also we felt that it offered all the effects and adjustments we wanted to make our thriller opening right for us and how we initially wanted it.

This part of our thriller is an example of where we had to adapt ideas, at first we was going to use Adobe After effects to create the big, black eyes on Bertie. However due to lack of experience and also bad time judgment, we created this effect on Premiere Pro.

The only new form of technology we used in creating our thriller that we hadn’t already used in our preliminary was the Go Pro camera. Go Pros are cameras where you can attach them onto your head to show a person’s point of view. This was used in our thriller opening when we see Bertie’s view when running away when he sees Annie...  there was a slight problem with the use of the Go Pro, it was quite bad quality. However we overcame this by speeding up the speed of Bertie running which ae added to the effect that he was possessed.

 

Overall I think that my media knowledge improved through the use of technologies, especially in using the editing software, Premiere Pro. We were taught briefly how to use some parts of Premiere Pro but other than that me and my group played around with the software to try and achieve what we wanted in our media product. Also I learnt how to handle the camera more as I was camera man in my final piece as opposed to having a more active role in my preliminary. I conclusion I think that I learnt a lot of skills in both filming and editing footage afterwards. This I think showed in our final thriller opening.

Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the main task?