Evaluation Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Kellie Ward

A media representation is the way in which the media regularly portray a certain type of person or group of people. This can derive from gender, social class, ethnicity, age, or social location. 

As there is just one character featured in our thriller opening, we were representing a very specific social group; It was female orientated, of a middle domestic class,

Evaluation Q.2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Kellie Ward

Representation is... the way in which people/a group of people/social organization is portrayed, and the media does not always reflect true reality; it instead moulds these things in a way that is subjective to their specific media text and therefore emphasises true reality and creates a stereotypical view on the particular person/place given (e.g. Tv drama exaggerating masculinity - Life on Mars).

The main areas which are represented by the media are:

Ethnicity

                                         Social class

          








Ability/disability                                                         Gender

                      Age                                                                                                    Regional identity

Sexuality 

The stereotypes that we represented in our film opening are gender (female), age (young), social class (working class), and ability.

Evaluation Q.4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

The general wide audience for thriller films is young adults-adults, most from which start from 18 years old because of age restrictions and psychological affects. Thrillers in general are not gender specific
Our target audience is of ages 16-35


The audience specific to our sub-genre (mystery thriller) 

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Final blog

This is the last blog i'm going to do, i have learnt a lot from the begining right through to the end and I hope you enjoy the final product which you can view on VIMEO: 

PATHOGEN GROUP8!!!!!

Evaluation Q.6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

To sum up the whole production and editing process, I'd say that I have been enlightened about all of the different forms of technology involved in piecing together ONE final piece. We required different digital technologies for things such as audio (Camtasia voice-overs, attachable camera microphones), video (lighting, JVC Camera, editing effects)

Q3 - Evaluation

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

Although we didn't put Warner Bros into the title sequence for Pathogen we think that if we had a chance to go back we would use it. The production and distribution company we have chosen is Warner Bros. This is because we think that our thriller is a Hollywood film and needs a lot of funding since its about a disease that affects people worldwide. We want it to be distributed globally and we feel that the plot has the potential to dominate the biggest cinema chains. 

We need a large budget because we are going to have to use a lot of different locations which have to be blocked from the public which costs money.

Also we need the make up to look realistic because if it doesn't it will look like an amateur film. Furthermore we also need the best actors and actresses to make it look realistic, the more realistic it looks, the more its going to engage the audience.

Q4 - Evaluation

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Through my research i have found that the wider audience for thriller films are either 15-30 or 18-30 depending on the film's content.

Above is an example of someone who would fit our target audience which is 15-30. We chose the    minimum age to be 15 because there are a lot of other thrillers with this age rating. One thriller we chose to focus on is Contagion(which has the same sub genre as pathogen which is mystery) because our film has a lot of intertextual elements from it and the plot is similar.

The girl above is 18 years old and as you can see from the likes she likes a lot of common things teenage girls like but she is also interested in crime, mystery and thrillers.