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Evaluation Question 7

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

Evaluation Question 6

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

Evaluation Questions 4&5

Who would be the audience for your media product? How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Question 3

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

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Question 1

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

Audience Feedback

At our media showcase evening, some people that viewed our film gave us some feedback about how they liked 'When the Bough Breaks'.

Finished Final Opening!

Here is our completed final two minute opening! As a group we are so proud of everything we have achieved over the last year and we are so happy its finally finished.

Film Synposis

If our film opening was to be made into a full feature length film, the main protagonist would be the male, serial killing, black cab driver who kidnaps and tortures multiple victims. The story will focus mainly on the mother and baby revealed to be trapped in the boot at the end of the opening two minutes and the torture they endure. However, later on the story will turn to the main protagonist and his psychological problems and history. At the end of the feature length film we have decided that there will be a hero like figure that 'comes to the rescue', which will most likely be a detective. As a group we realise that we want the audience to be fully involved and consumed throughout the film, which is not a typical convention of the psychological thrillers that have already been produced.

Costume and Props

For the costume, the male cab driver in our opening's costume is basic casual wear that cab drivers are typically seen in due to the fact that they do not have to dress smartly. Therefore, it is just a tracksuit and casual trainers.

The props we used for our opening were picked specifically to make the cab driver seem like a typical family man, in which passengers should feel safe in the cab. For example, the family photo in the front and the cab licence badge create the feel that he is a trustworthy driver, which misleads the audience completely as he is actually a serial killer.

Dialogue

Tara made a video for our group which shows the dialogue we used in our two minute opening. We used Stefani's dad as our creepy taxi driver and while we were filming we had a conversation in the back of the cab to make the dialogue seem more natural and therefore more strange when it is revealed that there is actually nobody in the taxi…

Storyboard / Shot List

This is the final plan of the shots we used during filming for our two minute opening, our alternative to a storyboard. On reflection, I realised we used quite a few close up and extreme close up shots of either the taxi driver's mouth or objects in the car, to add to the eery tone we were hoping to create in our psychological thriller.

Location

I realised I have previously forgotten to talk about the location in which with shot our opening. We decided to firstly use the road in which me and Emily live to film the basic shots of the cab drivers mouth and shots like the family photo. We did this because the scenery did not have to be specific here as it was only showing the road for a short time.

Then, we moved on to a more remote setting of Whitewebbs Golf Club not far down the road. We chose this setting as it is a remote woodland setting with many trees and lots of space to add to the creepy feel of our opening. We also loved the setting because of the shot entering the golf club car past where the cab is secluded when driving down a pathway lined with trees as this conformed to the nature of the psychological thriller we are aiming to create.