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

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our initial target audience was males that were above and around the age of 15, this was because teenagers enjoy thriller films and are able to understand everything that is going on. Considering thrillers are too violent for younger audiences and that elderly people find it hard to keep up with everything that is happening on screen we decide to have our target audience as males from the age of 15 to 30. We decided on a male audience because they tend to have a stronger interest in guns, violence and suspense but this is not saying that women won't enjoy the film as there will be a strong female character they can relate to.

Having a male character as the main role means that our target audience will be able to relate to the characters situation and lifestyle more easily allowing them to feel more connected with the film. From research we found out that our target audience like films such as the "Bourne Trilogy" and this led to the inspiration of having our characters on the run from an enemy. We found that our audience admired this movie and so kept some of the traits from it whilst having our own original ideas.

After reviewing the BBFC we worked out that our film fits into the 15 category as it contains frequent violence but not an excessive amount of foul language and no nudity which would have pushed it up to an 18.

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

Music Crediting

We would like to credit The Secession Studios, for the use of their royalty free music in our film opening.


   

Payback - The Final Cut

Group Discussion

New part to opening storyboard

Once we started filming we realized we needed something to make it make a bit more sense and add some tension so we story-boarded this idea.

1. The first box is showing the scene where the victim is trying to steal a file from a computer
2. The second shows when he knows that people will be after him so he tries to stash the laptop away in his bag
3. The two hitmen show up at the door ready to taking in the victim with the laptop
4. the victim ecapes through the side door whilst the hitmen are bangning on the door
5. the victim escapes across the road into the woods in a desperate bid to get away
6. the hitmen chase him through the woods to retrieve the bag