Look back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

My opening sequence

How did you attract/address your audience?

The film is set in a familiar environment to the teenagers/young adults attracting them to the film. They've experienced recently or are still experiencing high school so it makes them slightly scared to see this normal girl, just like them, be involved in violence, deaths and shows they could be stalked/blackmailed too. They relate to the character because she is the same age as them, and most of the audience will be females, so this could lead to them sympathising for her and becoming worried about how this could happen to them. The music in the opening of the film is similar to most older thrillers which doesn't really relate to our target audience, but it creates tension by the alternating notes and the music getting gradually louder. To advertise to my audience i would use social media marketing e.g Facebook, twitter, tumblr to attract the right audience, whom spend a lot of their time on these social media networking websites.

I attracted my audience for my film through various different area's within the film such as the characters used, the theme of the film itself and the topics which have been covered.
The characters used are stereotypical in horror-thriller films. Our main character, the protagonist is a teenage girl. In many other horror-thriller films the female character is often a main character who does end up dying in some way or another. I think this attracts our audience as this appeals to the  horror-thriller film audience by the use of this character. I think because the character in our film does actually end up surviving and with some sort of happy ending, this sort of is a unique selling point as not many horror-thriller films have this sort of ending however I think because of the nature of the film, although she survives people still die which obviously, horror-thriller fans love to see but the fact that she survives and finds out who the character is gives our film an edge over other films therefore attracting our audience in which we aimed to attract.
We also attracted our audience through the topics of our film. The film I produced is about a girl who has a stalker who is watching her every move, murdering those around her and leaving her by last by scaring her. Which leads to her finding out who it is. The topics therefore include being stalked by a mysterious character who nobody knows who it is all film as it could be anyone, even one of her closest friends. The aspect of mystery appeals to most audiences who love the thriller genre and more particularly the mystery thriller aspect with the addition of the horror genre. So the audience we aimed at will find our storyline and topics involved very interesting and more attracted to watching our film.
I also think the name of our film attracts the audience. The name of our film is 'Shadow'.
The use of the word shadow appeals to our targeted audience as the word shadow itself gives the impression of being followed and constantly behind you watching every move which is our storyline. I think this is thought out cleverly as with a bit of thought our story can be mirrored by the name of our film. Shadow itself can be scary and with that aspect of horror and thriller through the name it particularly does attract our audience we aimed at.
Although our film is very much unique with our stalker being found out, it can also be similar to other successful films in different aspects of what we included.
One aspect may be by the use of pov shots. This is very similar to the film 'Halloween' as the opening is purely a pov shot which gives the audience the suggestion that they are watching the film through someone elses eyes which gives the audience that interaction within our film which may also attract them.
Another film that is similar in some aspects is 'Hide and Seek'. This is not really about a stalker as such but the mysterious character in that film is not unveiled until the end where he is shot dead which is very similar to ours as our antagonistic mysterious character unveiled and also killed at the end. Both of which are not shown on screen (knowing of them being that mysterious character) until the very end.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

I think the main age range that our film is aimed for is older teenagers/younger adults. This is because its main character is a teenager, and most of the other characters are aswell. Also, the rating of the film is a 15, due to gore and violence throughout the film, supporting the target audience being older teenagers/younger adults.  It is also based around her school life making it more relatable to teenagers. I think our film is aimed at mostly females, because the main characters and her friends are mostly female also. I don't think our film is aimed at a specific class of people as all classes will be able to relate to the high school setting and main character.

The audience for my film is the thriller/horror film lover.
Not just that but also the audience age range is between 25-39 meaning we are targeting the young adults/middle aged audience. The use of younger characters however does add to the target audience of teenagers, preferably the older teenagers between the ages of 16-19 due to the graphic images which are in our film.
Additionally in their lifestyle, their favourite sports are mainly boxing and snooker. Boxing for example can be a very violent sport meaning blood can be the end result and can be gory. Therefore because are film is about the violence and the killing of close friends/relatives the fact our audiences favourite sport is boxing helps aid to the fact we know they will like the film.
Also one of their favourite activities is video games. Video games in particular nowadays have amazing graphics and with the violent games out now shows they love the gore and violence meaning they should be attracted to my film.

The personality of our target audiencesThe majority of our target audience describe themselves as 'Barmy', 'Easy to talk to' and 'Barmy'.
This shows that they are crazy people who love to have a laugh and love conversation. The fact that our film is a very crazy, all over the place thriller/horror adds to the attraction to our film.

What our target audience likes
- The fact our target audiences favourite films include; Final Destination, Nightmare on elm street and The exorcist. This shows they love the horror and the blood and the gore which is all included in our film meaning they would be very much attracted to my film.
Our target audience are varied people but have clear tastes and likes which we incorporate in our film. E.g. Boxing which shows violence which is also showed within our film. This shows that our film has the likes and wants that the audience want in these films meaning they would like to watch our film therefore our audience is clear and would have been achieved as our target audience.

Risk Assessment Task 10

What is a risk assessment?

A risk assessment is a process of evaluating the potential risks that may be involved in a projected activity or undertaking. It’s a big step in protecting workers and business as well as following the law. For most, this means simple, cheap and effective measures to ensure your workforce is protected. Risk assessment in the film industry complies with their legal duties to eliminate or reduce risk from their work. These include: 
Defining responsibilities and duties
Having a system for managing health and safety
Assessing and manage risks and
Regularly review the process and procedures for managing risk.


Why have a risk assessment?

If an incident should occur on set of making your film that leaves someone that you have working for you injured mentally or physically it can mean that you could personally be fined or even potentially go to prison because of it! Where as if you have a risk assessment in means that you have taken into consideration everything that could go wrong and write up how you would plan to resolve them so that no one got injured.

Who uses a risk assessment?

The producer is the main person to use a risk assessment as they are the ones who actually produce it. They use it to analyse the risks that may occur within the filming of the film.

Risk Assessment

Hazards:
Slips and Trips
Road

Who might be harmed and how?

Actors and crew may be injured if they trip over objects or slip on spillages
Actors and crew might slip and fall into the road

What to do to manage the risk?

Be careful with spillages and keep wires and objects out of the way to reduce the risk of tripping over.
Stay away from the edge of the path and avoid any objects that you could trip over

Feedback - Miss Spencer

Your conventions of thriller work follows the sme format as the horror work, again I would like to see some specific examples along with a look at the history of the genre. AS this is the genre you are working on I would also like you to connect this to your own work.
Level 2/3 border.

Conventions of the Thriller Genre Task 2.2

A thriller usually consists of a battle between the protagonist character and the antagonist when there is a disruption in the equilibrium. Then the story shows a chain of bad events building tension and suspense for the climax. The aim of the protagonist is to restore justice, while the antagonist seeks to destroy it. Thriller films usually include:

- low key lighting

- shadows
- tension music - building up
- diegetic sound of breathing
- quick/jump cuts
- black and white shots
- montage shots
- close ups
- silhouette
- cross-cutting
- dark clothing
- excitement

- investigation
- violence
- public services - police, army, government
- secretive

The protagonist is often a brave male an the antagonist will have a hidden identity that the audience uncovers as the film progresses. The storyline will be designed so that the audience will think that the events could possible happen to them making them more scared.