Final Piece: Resentment

Evaluation Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the product?

Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

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Evaluation Question 4

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Evaluation Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our thriller contains one type of social groups; African/Caribbean-British lower class adolescent males trying to rise above the gritty environments they were raised in. Unfortunately, due to struggle and pain they have received in their upbringing they have become blatant products of their environment. A prime example would be in Nortz' and S Wavey's case. The fact that they have abandoned their birth name and now go by tags that they are known by, shows they are products of their environment. Nortz is also an upcoming rapper who has the opportunity to make something positive of the life that he has suffered from. However, due to his upbringing he decides to insult other rappers which in turn gets him killed in the end. This portrayal of black teenagers in film conforms to stereotypical view of them. The lead character's measure of success is brought to him by being a musician specialising in rap, a predominantly black genre. This conforms to the stereotype that black people can only be successful through aesthetics and not through   The character is aggressive, obdurate and completely oblivious to other people's feelings. S Wavey is also another example to this stereotype. He is extremely hot tempered and ultimately becomes a criminal when he kills Nortz. This also conforms to the stereotype that most black people become criminals. Our thriller does contain any other gender, sexuality, age or ethnicity.  Overall this is a negative portrayal of black people. In conclusion, I believe there were many things that we could've changed about the portrayal of characters displayed in the film. For example, an introduction of female characters would've gave the film more substance and more opportunities to develop storyline as well as enabling the chance to apply binary opposites.

Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms of real media products?

Audience Feedback/Film Screening

We had many screening including one at our media class with a couple of fellow students. Here are some of the comments.

Deja said "I liked the action parts of the film, it really kept me on the edge of my seat and I would like to see what happens next".
Dara said "the bad guy's costume suits him but apart from that I don't think the film is very realistic".
Jonny said "I think the acting is very good".

Designing/Making: Ident

Today we developed our studio ident.
It displays cars driving along the streets at a relatively fast rate, the rate then slows down and we see a man riding a bike. The short clip then pauses, morphs into black and white and displays the words 'Rider Productions' and fades to black. We created the fast effect by tuning the speed of the visuals to 150% as the man on the bicycle approaches we slowed this down to 75% to give the illusion of slow mo. We then inserted a almost warped sound to fit the introduction of the 'Rider Productions' part of the ident, and finally faded it to black.