Evaluation
what did you do?
Summery of idea - strange man is stalking Lois Smith, he comes to her house and lets himself in using a key he found under a plant pot. He creeps around the house then ends up going upstairs to find Lois Smith. Thinking she would be alone he goes into her room, as he is looking over the bed Amy tyler awakes to find him staring at the both she then says "what are you doing?" so he drags her out of bed and knocks her out. He then drags her outside to his car and shuts the door behind him, then we cut to the scene of Lois Smith waking up.

After opening - After the opening Lois smith searches for her friend Amy Tyler when she is nowhere to be seen she begins to ring her phone then noticing her phone is gone she rings the police. They say there is nothing they can do until she has been missing for 24hours. In which time she starts to get very strange phone calls from the man stalking her. He sends her pictures of Amy Tyler unconscious body and starts getting her to perform tasks to get her friend back. When she finally finds Amy Tyler she comes face to face with the man who has been stalking her. She pretends this hole ordeal has made her fall madly in love with him and he believes her. She sets Amy Tyler free and tells her to run as fast as she can to get help. But in an unexpected twist the man stabs Lois Smith in the stomach saying ''I wanted you'' meaning he never meant to harm Amy Tyler he really just wanted to kill Lois smith.

Why did you do the things the way you did?
When we edited the video we cut from the two girls falling asleep to the a man creeping around outside the house. This is so we could build tension and make sure our audience nows that there is something about to happen. When we filmed the video we waited for there to be be no cars on the road this was to  give the illusion it was the dead of night and nobody would see the stalker creeping around outside the house.
How well did it work?
I think it worked well because when we got feed back on the video everyone understood the storyline very well and the effect and it created a good structure to our video.
we also chose for the two girl to be best friends because we wanted real emotional attachment between them so it seemed very plausible that she would go looking for her after.
What went well?
The editing process went considerably well as we managed to make all the shots work and we managed to merge them together very well.
The wooden stairs worked perfectly and made all the nosies that we needed for our shots which meant we could make a really creepy looking scene.
When Amy Tyler is being dragged down the stairs in my opinion is the best shot in the opening because it truly looks as if she is being dragged away by a creepy man.
What could we have improved on?
One of the shots was the wrong way round and I think we should have really noticed it earlier to re-film it and i think that our lighting way a bit low in the first scene so we could of changed that to make it a bit more clear to see.
Research?
We research the clothing that we decided to use and what heavy duty shoes would be best for making noise on creaky stairs, we did this so we could see all of the costumes we would need.
creativity/imagination? 
Our storyline was completely our own idea and we never had trouble with coming up with new ideas how ever when it came to the name of the characters we decided to keep the first names the same because our characters did suit any other names and we already thought Lois was a very girly name already.
props?

• phone 
• hairdryer 
• teddy bears 
• blankets 
• pillows 
• makeup 
• lamp 
• magazines 

Editing skills?
I think we have achieved quite a lot in this film and I think that our editing skills have progressed quite a lot from this film.
I dont think our editing skills are perfect but i think we have made a lot of progress with our film because we didn't know what we were doing when we first started out.

Evaluation Questions 

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or 

challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our media product is an opening.
We start it off as normal with the institution at the beginning of the film and titles as the film starts starting with star actor and the titles end with the name of the film (The Awakening). I think the edits we have made are to a acceptable quality and I think they are to a satisfactory standard. we used a match on action shot, a bust shot, a shot reverse shot combined with over the shoulder shot , long shot and a medium long shot. This shows we used a verity of different shots which in the long run will hopefully get us the higher marks that we want.

2. How does your media product represent particular social

 groups?

I think our film actually broke general convection because it 

actually to opposites that are best friend and the less girly/cool one 

has the upper hand in the friendship unlike general convention 

which dictates that the more popular one would generally have the

 upper hand in the friendship.     

The staker takes the less popular girl because she see him and he 

doesn't know what to do so in a moment of panic he drags her out 

of bed and nocks her out with a blunt object.

This breaks convection because everything tends you usually go 

quite smoothly at the begging for most film and our issue starts

 right at the start of the film with an unintentional abduction.

      
  
3. What kind of institution might distibute your media product 

and why?

I dont think touchstone would distribute our film as it is a bit

 violent for the family entertainment business.

we decided to use universal as we know they have produced horror 

movies in the past. 

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

15-25 year olds as we think they have an adult mind but they will 

still enjoy the scary story line.

5. How did you attract /adress your audience?

To attract the audience at the start we used  an argument to draw 

there attention to the screen before we started the suspense 

building. 

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have managed to build on my editorial skills (which was one of my aims at the begging of the year) I have learn how to use camera shots in a film and how to finically carry out my camera shots. The final thing I have leant from this editing process is the way to do 
titles within my film.  

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you 

have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I feel I have learnt so such from this process and I feel that we as a 

group have achieved so much.