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

Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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

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

Evaluation Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

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From the graph at the side, we can see that from ages 16-31 would go view our thriller but not so much those under 15 because this is a thriller that depicts a lot of violence and drug use as well which might not be pleasant thing to show children under age therefore it is completely understandable to receive this result. From the graph we can see that the highest age group that would view our thriller is 16-20 years old and this is mainly because it is relate-able. As we all know that teenagers are put in a very negative light more than any other age group and our thriller shows that negativity as there is drugs, violence and peer pressure involved in this thriller. Those at the ages of 31+ would view our thriller but not so many of them probably because it does not relate to them and their lives but the minority that would watch might watch it because it relates to their children.

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

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

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

If I were to pitch my film to one of the big production companies ( also known as the big six) which is 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Colombia, Warner Brothers, Paramount or Walt Disney they would most likely turn down my idea because as it nor any other film which may have a similar storyline has never been developed, produced and published to the world, and they may face the risk of losing money if it doesn't become successful at the box office and that is simply a risk big production companies can not take. They prefer to play it safe by adapting existing films and creating sequels because if they have been successful, then creating another 3 more would be another chance of gaining success. This is what they done with Fast and Furious, they are continuously making a new Fast and Furious because all the others have been a big success and it generates a lot of profit.

Furthermore if it were to be distributed I think it would be viewed by independent cinemas because to make the opening it didn't cost anything because everything was provided by the school. However if I were to go about making this full version of this film professionally it would probably be a low budget film costing at about £50,000. 

But I distributed it through social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat because I have a lot of followers on both my Instagram and Snapchat so I knew my followers would enjoy seeing what I have been working on for all this time as I used to keep them updated. And this benefited us because these were ways we promoted our film for free. But as Instagram and Snapchat videos could only be about 10-15 seconds long, showing them a few clips of the interesting scenes I believed interested and intrigueed them into watching the whole thing and this is where YouTube and Facebook was useful because you are able to have a long duration of videos and it can be accessible to everyone and it will be easy for them to share it with their friends and family.

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

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The key convections used in most thrillers are:

• Suspense 
• Tension
• Fast pacing
• Red herrings
• Cliff Hangers
• Action
• McGuffin

A McGuffin is a plot device in the form of some goal or an achievement in the film that the main characters in the film seem to focus on a lot making it seem like their main goal in the movie.

The audience aren't really engaged about what happens in terms of the McGuffin as they are more likely to more intrigued about the characters of the film. In me and my group thriller the plot device is the map in which Lord Healey is trying to recover to restart the human race.

Suspense is used in me and my group thriller film in a number of very effective ways. Suspense is firstly used by the background music which takes place throughout the thriller film, the music gives a sense of adventure., when he is picking items, so the audience is wondering what is he trying to do?The background music is taken from the theme song of award winning PlayStation 4 Game ''The Last Of Us'' the song was made by Gustavo Santaolalla.

Another way suspense was created in our thriller film was the story-line because with each scene passing suspense builds up into revealing if Lord Healey retrieves the map or not.

Also we added many filming techniques to add suspense. Firstly, we used an eyeline match to add suspense, as it puts a question in the audience heads, as they wonder what the protagnist was looking at. Also we used POV shots, to add the thrill into our thriller as it makes the audience feel like their in the protagnist position, making this a very effective shot.  

A cliffhanger is when the film ends in suspense. 
The cliffhanger in our thriller "Road to London" is the audience isn't sure if Lord Healey recovers the human race with the map he found in the end. The film ends with Lord Healey walking in the distance. This leavers the audience with a question in there head, what is going to happen next? 

     Example of a cliff hanger: