Thriller Task - Evaluation: Question 1

Question 1: In what way does your media product subvert, develop or adhere forms and conventions of real media products?



This is the first question of the evaluation, I used two different theories to help me illustrate how we adhered and subverted different conventions throughout the opening of the thriller and potentially further into the film.

Thriller Task - Production: Thriller Opening Final Video 'Undefined Reality'

This is the completed final version of the thriller opening we created called Undefined Reality. We changed some parts of the video thanks to the constructive criticism we gaged from other students and peers in the media group and from other people online which have watched the video. As a result of this and a lot of hours behind a screen in the media room and one or two fracases, we have produced a final version to the best of our abilities combined.

Thriller Task - Production: Improvements of The Thriller Opening

As the end of the production stage emerged, I decided to show some of my friends who have interests in music and media production types hobbies, what they thought of the initial version. This is the first video I have shown them so they have unbiased views towards the video. I mainly focused on asking for constructive criticism rather than their thoughts as some may not have been relevant.
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Overall as a result of this and the comments of improvement by my media teacher, our group are now able to change parts of the video which people have called out in order to improve the quality of the video and to make the titling easier to read and improved.

Thriller Task - Production: Editing the Opening

During the course of the 2 weeks in which we had time from filming to the deadline, we created a log as we all had different things happening at different times making it difficult for all 4 of us to edit at the same time.

The log contains information on when one of us started editing and what we edited on in order to know the changes that have happened and to work on what one of us has done. There were one or two occasions where we had to reflect back on the changes and perhaps change some of the edits that were made. We did this when all 4 of us were together in the lesson so that all 4 of us agreed on the changes we changed to the edits added.

In addition, Max Bradbury contributed a lot to the sound of the opening and outside of school or lesson, we added little contributions which helped Max able to make the sound to the best of his ability and to make it effective during the opening.