What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructiong this product ?

How did you attract/ address your audience ?

I believe the main attraction with our film is the fact that is is "Social Realism" meaning that is addresses current affairs that are going on in the world today, unlicensed cabs are a big issue in The United Kingdom today and soemthing needs to be done about it. I think that teenagers seeing our film would perhaps make them think twice about getting into a strangers car in the future. When parents here about this film they will puch their kids to go and see it so that they may think again next time they go to get in an unlicensed taxi in the futrue, so with backing from parents all over the country and maybe even the government because of the topic we are using this is going to help with atracting/ addressing our audience.

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

This is our first shot of our sequence and is there to establish the location that we start in and also to tell the audience that our character is alone making it more believable for her to be kidnapped by our unlicensed taxi driver. This therefore upholds the conventions of film sequence.

Here is a shot of our black cab pulling off as it is taken this is meant to represent that she is being left behind outside the cab and opens up a hole in our story to allow our unlicensed cab to pull into position and begin the real story, this conforms to the conventions of a film sequence as this is where she starts her journey on being alone and this is important to our storyline. 

Here is our unlicensed taxi picking up our teen and even though there are people here that have nothing to do with our story which sort of tells our audience that she is not alone which in other scenes could make our story unbelievable but the fact that she isn't in the cab yet it is ok and doesn't look to bad. This scene I believe again upholds the conventions of a media sequence.

Here is a shot of our drivers eyes in the rear view mirror and working together with the image below we have created a really creepy and weird sequence as he is looking our character up and down as she sleeps this conforms to the conventions of a thriller sequence.

Our second rear view mirror shot here we see our teen in the back of the car sleeping and when this is cross faded with the other mirror shot it really helps to tell us what kind of a man our driver really is and we start to get a sense of what is about to happen. I think this conforms to the conventions of the thriller genre.

Here our character is now awake again and starts to question where she is and this is when the non-diagetic music starts and we know that the scene is about to pic up, this conforms to the conventions of a sequence of its type.

Here is a close up of our teen on the back seat of the unlicensed cab becoming agitated and worried about where she is, this is a prime example of a shot that builds tension in a scene and for that reason I think it conforms to the conventions of a thriller sequence.

Here is where our story really kicks off this is where our driver shows the teen that he has stolen her ID over a week prior to this event, this clearly scares our character and in the next image you see that she is trying to escape from the car, this screen grab definitely conforms to the conventions of a thriller sequence and creates tension and fright.

Here is our character trying to escape from the car this is a screen grab that definitely upholds the conventions of the thriller genre as she is trapped and really wants to get out.

How does your product repsesent particular social groups ?

In our opening sequence there are only two characters present therefore we only have two social groups to look at these are teenage girls and middle aged men. Below are two images one of each of our characters I am going to talk about them and their social groups that they represent.

First we have our teenage girl we tried to portray her in the most stereotypical way possible. We made our character "Lottie Tolhurst" vulnerable and naive and in the opening scene we showed her walking out of a club which is quite typical in the life of many teenagers of today.

We then have our middle aged male taxi driver, this is a tricky one to talk about as I don't believe there is a social group for "Crazed taxi drivers who kidnap teens" so I am going to talk about how we made his character creepy, firstly we have the driver in his car pull straight up after the black cab pulls off which is a bit keen and creepy. Then we have the driver talking to our teenager in a friendly sense like he knows something about her which isn't normal, by now the audience knows there is something not quite rite going on in the car this is then in-forced with the scene with the license that the driver had stolen prior to the girl getting in the taxi happens. Finally we have our drivers speach which is quite stuttered and stammered which just adds more of a sense of "Strange".