- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our final product 'Legal Alien' conforms to the conventions of existing media products because i devoted alot of my time to research before making our movie. I looked at films of similar genre's and tried to bring elements from their film and change them slightly to create our film opening sequence.
Most of the films I watched were filmed in very dark environments and included a variety of different supernatural events.
I tried to bring this into our film by getting the typical ‘creepy, lonely alien hunter’ to be the lead guy for our film.
A lot of the films I watched also only had 1 character throughout the first few minutes of the film. We included this aspect into our film by not introducing any other actors into the film.
The voice over we used is in Russain and therefore is very interesting which is the reason I didn’t want the soundtrack to over power his voice.
We chose to create a sci-fi film after watching 'District 9'. As this film is also sci-fi we wanted to use this genre and create our own opening sequence. We did however, change the layout of the film because in District 9 the human/ alien transformation scene takes place towards the end of the film. Due to the fact that we wanted our audience to maintain engaged throughout our film, we decided to have the transformation scene to occur at the begining of our film. We found that doing this did actually keep our audience on edge and wanted to watch more. We discovered this through the auidence feedback session we had in our media lesson. We recieved very positive feeback which gave us the confidence to only change a few slight sound effects instead of the way the film was laid out. In our audience's notes, they said that by having our action scene at the begining of the film just after the titles appear on the screen, made them feel very engaged and excited to keep watching. We were very pleased with this feedback because keeping the audience watching to watch more was our main main and i feel that we have achieved this goal.
- Who would be the audience for you media product?
Prior to creating our media product i prepared a questionnaire for sci-fans to complete. In this survey i asked questions such as, are you male or female? How old are you? What would you expect to see in a typical sci-fi movie? After recieveing all of my questionnaires back i found that the majority of sci-fi fans were male and in their late teens. This was what we based our auidence on and we tried our hardest to meet their specific interests. For example, when looking back on my survey i found that many people expect to see some sort of supernatural event taking place during the film because it is sci-fi. We met our auidence's needs by including a action scene when our protagonist transforms into an alien. Aliens is a very typical theme that most people would except to see in a sci-fi film.
- How did you attract/ address your auidence?
We used typical conventions of a sci-fi movie to attract our auidence and allow them to recognise our genre. For example, we used special effects such as 'sci-fi, romance, dreamy and x-ray effects'. Sci-fi fans will be able to see these special effects and identify the genre immideatley. Another way we attracted our auidence was by our soundtrack. The soundtrack is very important in our film because it builds up tension to up coming scenes and it also helps link the scenes together effectively. The music chosen for our film is all extreemely revelant and chosen with alot of thought. Considering that our genre is sci-fi, it is important that i chose typical creepy, and mysterious music to allow the auidence to recognise our genre. If our music was any faster or more up tempo, our genre could have been decieved as a horror or thriller.
Mariam Nikpour
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