1. The flash forwards in our film opening are also our enigma codes because they are giving us clues as to what the film will be like and what may happen. My film relates to other thriller’s genre characteristics because there is a dark mysterious character who follows the young girl. There is also eerie music to set the mood. Our film opening represents typical mise en scene because all the characters are dressed appropriately in going out clothes and the kidnapper is dressed in dark mysterious clothes so he is hard to see. The scene is also appropriate because it is late at night on the way home. 1

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? Our production, being a modern day thriller, would most likely fall into a category of a standard British film. Therefore, the kind of Film Distribution Company that would back our film would be British, and would probably distribute small indie (independent) films which our production fits quite well. The name of our ideal company would be OPTIMUM , that have released many independent films and have made a name for themselves in the film industry. Screenings of our production would take place in Art house cinemas, as we think that maybe a British film with such a hard-hitting concept, might not do so well in Multiplex cinemas. Also, because our production is an independent film, it would not be funded by a big corporation e.g. Disney, Warner Bros, this would mean that to get it to show on a Mulitplex cinema would not be the right move. 3

4. Our film is not suitable for persons under the age of 15 unless given parental permission. My target gender for an audience is both boys and girls and I dont target a specific social group because thriller movies are such a broad social group it covers I would think my audience might have watched these films if they were going to take an interest in watching ours because they enjoy that genre. 4

6. What technical skills have you learnt and how was your understanding of film production developed during the process of constructing this production? Before the process of constructing our production, we all seemed to have the same level of skills and knowledge of media work. Throughout the process, we have picked up on and learnt lots of new techniques. For example none of use knew how to correctly identify a different type of shot, when now we can identify every different type, mainly through practise, and knowing what to look out for when watching films and television programmes. We have also gained an understanding of how films are made, and realised that there is a lot of different jobs that make up the workings of a good production, like planning which is very important, sound mixing and editing. Lastly, the mise en scene (the placing of a scene) is another attribute to our knowledge gained during the making of this production. 6

7. From our preliminary task I feel I’ve learnt how to do and use shot reverse shot. We also learnt the over the shoulder shot which we used in our film opening. Our over the shoulder shot which you can see to the right worked really well as we can see the kidnappers shadow and the girl in front. I feel our production went really well. 7