This is our final media product, enjoy.

When we finished our film, some of the people who had watched it thought Ending Two, was too abrupt, so we decided to show Horatio` s face at the end as another alternative ending, and then interviews four teenagers aged 16-17 (target audience) to give them their views on which ending they preferred:

Ending One:

Ending Two:

Overall, it seems as though people we more satisfied with the ending in which Horatio` s face is shown watching the pictures.

Question five: How did you attract/address your audience?

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We held a screening of our final media product and asked our related target audience to see if we had successfully attracted our target audience:

Our audience feedback suggests that we have successfully targeted our audience, meaning iour media product is officially a 15-21 film specification.

Powerpoint version of question two

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6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Online software:

I knew how to upload my own video for Question 7, as well as uploading our videos and embedding them onto my blog. I also learnt how to receive feedback from other online users, especially to those who commented on our final product, as well as commenting on other people`s work as well. The significance of this is that it is free, quick, and easily accessible.

With Slideshare I learnt how to upload powerpoint presentations and word documents, and then how to embed them onto predominantly my blog, as well as facebook at times.

I embedded our media product onto facebook because many of my friends on that social networking site were of the same specific target audience to our product, 15-21. Many of whom commented on our post and gave good, but critically an honest analysis of our film. We also asked them to give us their thoughts on wich ending would be the best (see my blog).

On blogger, I learnt how to upload my presentations and word documents from slideshare, how to create and edit new posts, and how to upload videos from youtube.com respectively. This was all done to enhance my presentation skills in order to make my work look more attractive.

Our group used dafont.com to research possible designs for our title Neurosis.

Equipment technology:

The digital camera helped me to upload pictures from a memory stick reader which then went onto the Apple Mac. I took pictures of all the locations witnessed in the film, whilst Arfa too pictures of Jemima and her friends from Horatio`s perspective which was then printed out by Hannah.

With the digital video camera, I learnt how to record footage, upload footage, charge the camera when it needed to and to zoom in and out. We also learnt about the white balance, and the problem we have with the balance, because at times the screen was shaky and unstable. This was evident in the screen where Horatio was typing up the article.

Due to the frailties of the digital video camera and its white balance problem, we used the professional camera instead which worked because the lens was able to focus better on the screen. The quality of the footage was also much better, however what we recorded could not be uploaded on the professional camera from the normal camera.

With the tripod I learnt how to keep a shot steady, maintain the balance of the shot, and make sure the camera was steady and level.

With the AppleMac I learnt how to upload footage, pictures, and work saved under my memory stick (USB). I also learnt how to screen-grab shots which is less complicated to that of a PC. I also learnt to edit my own footage for Question 7, using Imovie.

Question four who would be the audience for your media product

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Progression from the preliminary task to the full product

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Newspaper Shot

When we asked some people to watch our film, many of them were unaware about the newspaper Horatio writes up. They said that the layout was unclear and many mistook the newspaper article for a diary. The one person who hinted that this could be an article suggested that we should change the layout to make it look more obvious that it was actually a newspaper article. Therefore, we changed and enlarged the title font, as well as making a column, and then including the write up inside that same column.

When our media teacher saw this shot, she too, thought it looked more like a diary rather than a newspaper, and questioned whether a diary would be a more sinister idea compared to that of an article. We thought about this but believed we should keep it as a newspaper article because a blog would mean that everyone knows about Horatio ` s obsession with Mia, even before the storyline has developed, meaning we would not be matching the convention of our genre. As a result of this, we kept our original idea of a newspaper article and improved it, as most of our audience had suggested.

This is the Rough Cut version of our film but without any sort of meaningful sound and music included. The reason behind our group deciding to make the rough cut and uploading it onto youtube.com was because we wanted to read other people` s opinions of the film, so if there was anything missing in the film, or areas that needed improving we could work on them. For example, camera movement, camera shots, angles, the mis-en-scene etc. By doing this, would enable us to meet the conventions of our genre (psychological thriller) and also the narrative. The questions we asked people to answer were:

1) Does the male look sinister?

2) Is it clear that he is following the female?

3) In terms of the storyline, how would you rate it? (5= great and 1=poor)

4) Does it suggest that the female is vulnerable?

5) Are there any other strengths and weaknesses?

The comments we received were:

· Except maybe the following could be more subtle, you'd think she would notice if he was following her like that.
2. yes, but it's only obvious at the end with all the stalker-ish pictures.
3. 3/4
4. A little, we don't really see much of her on her own.
5. Needs sinister/frightening music that would also help to make it clear that what's going on is something disturbing.

· 1. Yes
2.yes
3. 4
4. Maybe, she is on her own but we don’t see much of her
5. Maybe some music :)

· 1. I didn't find him sinister. Seeing he following her like this is too obvious, maybe he should be more subtle.
2. For me it was clear.
3. I'll go with a 3.5 because i lost track of events between thestreet’s scene & the pictures.
4. I can't really tell b/c we don't see her that much? But I don't think not knowing someone stalks you means that you're vulnerable.
5. Yep, some frightening music would be nice

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Oh and, goodluck with this ;)

· For the music, you should have something a bit mysterious for the beginning, something that makes us feel ill at ease so it'll convey the idea that she is being followed.
Maybe some classical tune for the moment when he is in his office and than something going creepy again when we see the pictures

I hope this will help, and I think the idea of the mini movie is interesting

· Part 2:

4. Well we don't see enough of her to tell if she is

· 1. He did not look very sinister, but we could notice that there was something not quite right
2. Well not really, it looked a bit random, maybe if you had filmed from over the shoulder and for longer, like she changes direction and he follows her then it would be clearer
3.I would say 3,5 the storyline was a bit random in my opinion, I did not really understand what happened after the scene in the street until we saw the pictures at the end

· 1.yes
2.ya
3.5
4.yes
5.I agree, music would defiantly add epicenes and adding sinister music would make the character even more sinister :) hope I helped x

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· 2. Yes, very

· 3. 3.5

· 4. Kinda because she is on her own

5. Music would probably give it more epicenesshink the video is good, there isn’t any real negative points, said that this rough cut music

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This would of been are first scene, but after filming we believed that we should change the scene because it did not go according to our plot and we gave too much away. Furthermore, when I fell on the floor, it was too theatrical and it would sway the plot of the film.The opening scene did not meet the conventions of a pyschological thriller because there were far too many charcters involved, normally there is 1-2, but in this scene, there were 3-4.We uploaded the film into youtube and the comments we received was:

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The trip seems abit to comical and slightly unreal but however comparing that characters clothing to the female charcters he does seem isolated from society. as well this there are 2 many characters introduced within the opening where its hard to work out who is the main character and most important.

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its a bit comical the fall because like he kicked the metal thing before hahaa and its a bit over dramatic
the comedy doesnt really fit into the conventions of a psychological thriller