Apollo: Evaluation Questions (Individual) Daniel Bird

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

2. How does your media Product represent particular social groups?

Our film character is presented as being negative, as he a stalker. Our character is a young white male and we see him using a modern mobile phone and laptop computer which shows that he comes from a wealthy and rich background and he is able and familiar with modern technology. There are no female characters shown. Since he is doing stalking alone, he is depicted as being very secretive and having a mysterious personality and a slightly twisted and sick mind. We also don't know if he has any normal friends, but the audience presumes so because we see him on Facebook looking at someone. Our character looks like an average person, he wears normal clothes, has a normal hair style and could easily blend in with others if they didn't know he was a stalker.

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

Our film would be distributed by an art-house company, but would perhaps have some offers from a mainstreem company depending on how much money they think the film would make. Our film has a serious theme and would be aimed at adult viewers, mainly males. If our film was shown in an art-house, it would be shown regularly.

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

The ideal viewer for our film would be a man in his late 30's/early 40's. He lives in a flat with his girlfriend in a rough part of London and enjoys watching horror and thriller movies such as the Die Hard and Alien series of films. He also watches a wide range of comedy and regular TV shows such as CSI, Eastenders, Top Gear, Midsomer Murders and war documentries. He is a massive fan of modern technology and is always on Facebook and Twitter, and he has lots of friends on and off-line. He is un-employed and has been looking for a job for many months. He did some part-time jobs but never made much effort and quickly lost interest. He loves going to the cinema every weekend with his girlfriend and mates. He has a very large collection of DVDs but hardly ever watches them as he now downloads them off the internet for free onto his laptop.

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

During the course of our work I discovered many new useful technology and websites such as Prezi and Blogger which has made our film work a lot easier and convinient. At the begining of the media course, I had no idea how to use the macs and had never heard of Finalcut Express, but now I can use a mac and its facilities easily. We have been lucky to have been able to be supplied with Canon cameras and computers for our work. Not everything had to be used online, we used paper for storyboards and film ideas. In total we used lots of websites including IMDb, Prezzi, Youtube, Wikipedia, Dafont, and Blogger for the vast majority of our film work.