Task 7

Task 7

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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".

Who would be your target audience ?

We have decided that Pulse would be most likely to make our film because it is low budget and British; seeing as there audience already is British teens aged between 16 and 24 with films such as Kidulthood and Shifty I believe that these audiences would be perfect for our film. The fact that our film is social realism really appeals to the British teens as it is stuff a lot of them have to deal with on a day to day basis which means they can relate and I think in a sense this is quite comforting for teens today. 16 to 24 year olds these days will be in Education or maybe in work perhaps they have just come out of university and are in a new job after their studies, they will be facebook users and will watch a lot of movies either ripped off of the internet or in the cinema, for the most part the 16 to 18’s will have disposable money and will use the cinema more than other ages but as they get older they wont go as much until it maybe becomes once a year if your lucky, they are all going to listen to music and this will be another way of bringing in our audience by using new up to date British music in the film. Our 25 to 34 year old audience will probably be more men than women due to the genre of the film it will be violent and will deal with issues in society today and I think a kidnapping taxi driver is going to be a sore spot for women aged between 25 and 34. Our film will most likely attract more males than females because of the plot; a kidnapping taxi driver is not going to be a female’s choice of film when shown among other films about love and romance. Males are our target audience at the end of the day males of any age but we believe that males between 16 and 24 are going to watch this film more than anyone else.

Shoot day two.

We shot the second part of our thriller yesterday which went well, we used the car in this shoot mainly filming interior shots of the car and our two acts Lottie and Simon, the only problem we faced on the day was making the car look like it is moving as we could not shoot it when the car was actually moving, so we ended up using two red head lights and by making sure the windows where wet and the focus was sharp on our character we could move the lights past the window giving a false sense of movement, this worked quite well I think. After we tackled this problem we decided that our script wasn’t right so we had to improvise a new one on the spot which was quite a challenge but in the end we all pulled together and came out on top despite the bitterly could weather and the rain. I was assigned role of director on this shoot my favourite and because the idea for this shoot originally came from something I wanted to shoot a while back we developed on it and came out with “the driver” which I think became a nice idea in the end after the tedious processes we had to go through and the endless planning. My role as director meant that I had to give the acts direction and decide what we needed to shoot to make sure the story came out a good one and I believe that I did this pretty well but this opening sequence will not be what it is without the work put in from all the crew from camera to sound to production.