1. Our media evaluation Lizz parry Matthew Johns Matthew Earl

2. How does your media represent particular social groups All media products represent a particular group of some sort. Our horror opening represents teenagers. We were told that our horror film had to appeal to a teen audience as the certificate is 15, we also did some background research looking into different horror openings. The trend we noticed throughout the majority of films was that there were mainly female victims, this is most probably because females tend to seem more vulnerable than males. The one film in particular that stood out of our group was “the curse of Lizzie Borden”. This film has the typical ideas of the genre, with the teenage girl as the victim. We took a character from our own opening and compared them to the character in this film. There are many similarities to these characters however many differences too as we tried to make our film more unique

3. What kind of company might distribute your film and why AS a group we discussed what kind of media institution may want to distribute our media product. We feel as though going with a company that specializes in the horror genre. Twisted pictures does exactly that and has a reasonable budget for doing so. Twisted pictures is most famous for creating horror productions they especially gained wide attention through the film saw Distributing with this company gives the advantage of using cgi and expensive upgraded technology. Things that can give the film a better quality making more people want to watch it. Most films done by this institution have been successful such as these http://www.idb.com/company/co0137447/ However if this film was not a success then the institution would make no profit and having a higher or lower budget wouldn't have made a difference . As well as Twisted Pictures our film could be distributed by warp films as they have produced many low budget yet successful films such as “four lions” and “this is England”. Although this institution do not produce films within the horror genre if this film was to be the first film of that genre proced by them it may stand out to the other media products they have distributed.

5. How did you attract your audience? Before we started to make our film we thoroughly researched the genre by watching existing horror films, 2 of the films we watched were “jeepers creepers” and “dead wood”, the reason that we chose to watch these films is that both of them have the same certificate as our we will be, this certificate is 15, and therefore these films have a large relevance to the teenage market at which we are aiming. We then incorporated themes and ideas into our film so we could make it appropriate for our target audience, within our film we used facebook, facebook is a social networking site that allows people to contact each other, we included it because its primary users are teenagers and therefore this relates well to them.

7. In what ways does your film opening use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real film openings?