Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Part 2.1

Part 2 of my A2 Media Studies Question one Evaluation. In this part I will be answering:

- Where is your film intended to be shown?

Social Media Distribution!

Due to the Internet, film distribution as a whole (long or short) is so much easier to share and distribute around the world to ANYONE around the world. Social Media sites like Twitter and Facebook are perfect ways to show your friends your media, and it creates the process of peer-to-peer networking, in which the creator shows two of their friends something, then they show two more friends something and the process goes on like that.

I just showed six different people my short film. If they all only go on to show two people the film, in total that would be 12 more people who would had seen the film. And it they went on to show two more people then it would 24 more people would would had seen it! So in total, by just talking to friends, that's 42 people who would had seen it! And that's just on Facebook! Facebook is one of the places where I intend to show my film.

Twitter's different in the sense that you don't need to accept follow request (unless your account is private. Therefore anyone from around the world can follow you and see your tweets! 

I have 105 followers, meaning that if every one of them showed my film to two friends, that means 210 would had seen my film! Also that's without tweeting or retweeting the film themselves. For example... 

Someone who follows me has 10,000 followers, if he tweeted out my short film, 10,000 people have the chance to view it. And again if they showed two friends each, the amount of views would be staggering and the size of an average football stadium! That's insane!

Therefore Social media is the perfect way of hosting and distributing your media! And that's the main of many reasons of why I would show be film on there!

Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Part 1

Part one of my A2 Media studies Question one Evaluation. In this part I will be answering:

- how long is your Short Film?
- how many clips (scenes) did you use?

1.1 - How long is your Short Film?  

There are really three different types of 'short films'. 2 minute short films, 3-6 minute short films or 7+ minute short films, with each having their own pros and cons. My short film falls under the 3-6 minute section, with the actual length being 4 minutes and 40 seconds.

This is a perfect length as it allows me to introduce the characters, overall narrative and credits all within a time spane that doesn't allow the audience to lose focus, get bored or confused. Some short films drag on, and I didn't do that. 

1.2 How many clips (scenes) did you use?

Video: 

Magazine Article - And Action! - The Twilight Hour Review

The Twilight Hour | A2 Media short Film

Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Part 4 - Poster Analysis.

- How did you go about designing your poster?
- What information did you use?

How did you go about designing your poster?

I followed the conventional ways that a poster is published. I went about designing my poster based on example posters from the Twilight Zone, specifically this one.................

I wanted the narrator character to stand out from the rest of the images, and I achieved this with using a black border around the character. Also the stary night and the twirl were also inspirations for the background. I went about picking the main image as the narrator is an important and vital character to the original Twilight Zone, I felt as it would pay hommage to it in using my narrator as the main image for the poster.

What information did you include?

The Twilight Hour Poster

Genre (Media Language)

Genre:

For my A2 Media short film, the genre of it is a Pshycolgical Thriller with elements of Sci-Fi. I took a direct inspiration from The Twilight Zone, and expanded on it's traditional Sci-Fi aspects and converged it with Pshycolgical Thriller. As Pshycological Thriller was the per-dominate genre out of the three, I decided to catagorise it as a Pshycogical Thriller.