Our thriller opening has been uploaded onto YouTube allowing people to see the first two minutes and hopefully will attract my audience to want to see more. Our target audience ranges from 16-24 year olds, which most use the Internet quite a lot and also can be accessed through mobile phones. YouTube is a well known site especially for teenagers because it allows them to view trailers, music videos and video clips for free and easily YouTube being free is a bonus as not many 16-24 year olds would pay to watch our two minute clip. YouTube also allows people to comment/like clips, it also shows how many times the clip has been viewed, so we can see if our thriller would appeal to many people, then we can decide how to distribute our film further. Also YouTube allows embedded codes so can also be posted onto other social network sites. Therefore this would be good way to distribute my thriller film. On social network sites if there is an advertisement for our thriller it gives the chances for people globally to watch our thriller film.
As our films is independent and low budgeted, it would be best exhibited in Art House theatres, for example, Cinema City. Our films include locations around Norwich so it would appeal to audiences from the city. Also at Cinema City in Norwich the manager at the cinema decides what films to put on and what would appeal to people in Norwich and I think that our thriller would. British Independent films do well in countries in Europe and if exhibited through a company like Europa our thriller could be globally viewed.
For young film makers, short film competitions are a good way of getting films viewed. For example, Virgin Media Shorts, DepicT! and reed.co.uk are all looking for films and which are around 2 minutes long, so our thriller opening would fit this criteria. Some competition allow the top 12 films to be shown in cinemas nationwide which would help attract a wider audience. This would be another good way to distribute our thriller opening.
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2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our thriller opening is very male dominated this is because our storyline only includes males and there are no female actors. We didn’t purposely use just male actors, but males fitted our storyline better as they are in a gang representing that they are criminals. We didn’t plan on omitting females we thought that males would suit our characters and storyline better than females because of how males are differently represented and seen compared to females. The unintended male domanice that is included in other thrillers as well as ours, for example, the Bourne films, show that female omitting happens a lot in the thriller genre because males fit the role of the characters well.
In our thriller, we do not have a proportional representation of society because are characters are all a similar age. Two active characters are in their young 20’s whereas the other is 30, so there is only a slight age gap. Therefore youth dominate our thriller and represented as a stereotypical view of teenagers and young adults. Also what the characters wear suggest their criminality, but these characters do not represent all youth of society. We used the actors because they were convenient and fitted into our thriller as youths and the representation of youths. I think the our representation of youths is quite negative, but I don't think our film is suggesting that all youths act in this way. In our thriller the representation of youths in quite similar to the representation youths in Kidulthood, but I think this appeals to our target audience because the youths watching can see how others youths act and identify with the characters and be a part of the film. In a lot of films today youth is represented similarly to ours, so I do not think the audience will be shocked and may expect to see our representation of youths.
In our thriller a big representation of a social group is family. The whole storyline is based on family and therefore it is one of our main themes. The aim of our main character was to get revenge on the man that killed his twin brother, our whole storyline emphasis the importance of family. In thriller family isn't a issue usually stereotyped and if it is it is usually stereotyped as family being enemies.
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