Task 4 - Who would be the target audience for your media production

Our target audience for our thriller would be young teenages from the age of 15-25 who would go see the film during school holidays or on weekends, we would try and target as wide a audience as possible trying to target world wide audience. Our main aim though is too target a young audience, our film would appeal to a young male audience not just girls so it would be perfect for a friday evening go out with a boyfriend or even a group of friends after college, university or school a good thriller that you can watch over and over again attracting different genders, ages and socail groups.

Task 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

  The distribution of Immersed I think would probably be distributed by New Line Cinema, as it is an unpredictable film and is a Crime solving film I reckon it would bring in a big audience if it was distributed well. New Line Cinema produce many different types of film but the mainly focus on thriller/horror films that bring something different and exciting for example butterfly effect, final destination and lost souls. I think they would be interested in releasing our film as it has an interesting and gripping tale that unwinds throughout the film that would keep an audience gripped throughout. Putting the film on to DVD’s, Blue-Ray and on TV will help us reach an even wider audience, if they feel it’s too expensive to go to the cinema, they would still get a chance to see it at home. We would use marketing ideas to bring in the audience, to help distribute the film, we would do this by using posters on billboards and buses, trailers to tease the audience before the film is realised and use the Internet for wider audiences making are film reach other countries and try and bring in a worldwide audience as well as a British audience.   

Task 2 - How does your product represent particular socail groups

Looking at socail group and who we targetted with our thriller, we look at young teeages who are still in college, it would be put on at times that work round school holidays or even long weekends so that it gave a chance for these students to go one friday evening to go see a thriller. It would be away for people during exams to have time out to go see a film with friends. The other socail group we decided to target was maybe a slight older group, University students, which when they have the chance to have a chilled evening might want to go see a film with a bite. This will give us a chance to reseach different age groups socail and bring in a bigger audience by aiming for these two different socail groups.
Both socail groups are represented in our thriller as we use a young girl for our opening credit scene showing that a young audience would enjoy this as she is a similer age to our target audience.

Task 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and converntions of real media products.

Looking at where to put our titles to present the main people behind the thriller, we looked at putting them in places where they would blend in but make sure they could still be seen and read for a certain time. Our opening title we placed as we wait for the scene to unfold, she dives into the title making it wash away as she swims through it this is effective as it was easy to see and read but disappeared when appropriate. The next two titles were placed in similar places, as we used a similar shot which helped us place the titles. This worked effectively as it blended it but was easy to read still. Main of the titles blended into the scene so that they were randomly placed and had meaning and thought behind where they were placed. All these shots in my screen grabs reflect many of the intense shots and moments that were in our thriller the titles added to the opening scene as it keeps the audience gripped to the film as the opening credit scene is so mysterious they want to find out more and watch it unfold. These pictures reflect the weird events that will happened through out.

Immersed Questionnaire

Account of shoot day

Friday the 28^th of January was our shoot day we planned to arrive at Courtney house for about 10 so that meant leaving about 9.30 from Hurtwood to get there on time, we made a shooting schedule of similar shots that needed shooting making it as organised as possible so we could start the minute we got to location making sure we had as much time as possible to get everything we needed and extra if possible giving us a chance to change our story bored if we felt it was necessary we got all the equipment we needed like camera, spider doll, tracks and lighting packed up in the bus and left, arriving to the location on time.  The alterations we decided to do on our storyboard added to our thriller as we tried to create a thrill for the audience, we decided to change the ending slightly making the audience want to carry on watching.

Arriving at location we took all the equipment down to the pool area setting up the appropriate things for the first shot so making sure the camera is at the right angel and that we had looked at the focus, the white balance and lighting around us. We also set up a light behind the camera as well as using the lights in the room and in the pool to make sure we get the best possible contrast from different angles.  Later on we used a tracking shot show someone coming in from outside, this shot gave us a chance to use different equipment to get a better effect through movement. The tracking shot was part of the storyboard when the swimmers dad comes in to tell her its supper but at first you don’t know who it is as we wanted a surprised moment as he stands above the water waiting for her. So with the tracking shot we tried to focus only on the legs and the girl swimming along. This built up suspense for the audience and gave an element of surprise when they find out it’s only her dad, instead of the guy who’s been watching her. This links too many thriller films now and in the pass for example like the strangers, it’s all an element of surprise and suspense for the audience.

We used as simple costume and props as possible so we could focused more on getting really good shots, but making sure everything fit in well for our story line.  We chose a training swim suit for Bethany our main character with a light blue swimming hat and goggles, this all worked well as it showed how serious she was about swimming.  Ted who played the stalker he wore jeans that were slightly ripped and a hoodie covering his face giving no identity, this gives another element of surprise to the audience when the stalker may be identified towards the end of the film. It also gave a difference to the characters and what they were both like.

We decided to use Bethany as she is a slim build, athletic so could cope with being in a pool all day and has had experience in doing swimming for a club which helps with her and doing laps.

Story Board