Delirium - Final AS Media Product

EVALUATION 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

EVALUATION 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

EVALUATION 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

EVALUATION 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

EVALUATION 3: What kinda of media insitution might distribute your media product and why?

EVALUATION 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

MALES

Michael Ridgewell in our thriller opening is a protagonist; an every day, normal character who reinforces the male stereotype of the heroic male. Most stories and thrillers in society have shown males to be the hero; from when we were younger in fairy tales such as Snow White to more current films such as I Am Legend starring Will Smith, who plays Robert Neville, the hero, the man who risks his own life to save a lady and a child. This is the stereotypical male leader, showing that he's the stronger sex. Like in most typical thriller/horror films the man is usually the protector.

I compare Michael to the character Robert because even though the story lines of these thrillers are completely different these characters are alike in the sense that they both dress very casual, like every day, normal people. They are both protecting something; in Delirium Michael is protecting Sarah which is why he goes off to find out what the strange noise is whereas Robert is protecting a life saving formula in blood and saving a female and her child. The storylines are completely different but the characters in itself are similar.

FEMALES

 

AGE

In most thrillers the hero tends to be an older male although in ours that is not the case; this is because we didn't have older people available to film for it. Our thriller is made up of actors that are teenagers. Rather than represent the stereotypes of teenages we decided to oppose it. The media represents teenagers to be rough and they are not usually represented as heros however our male lead went out to protect his girlfriend. Our thriller aim to show the vaunrability of teenagers and shows them to be more caring of each other. One of the stereotypes we decided to use was that teenagers are rather careless. Our characters went to investigate an abandoned building which is outside of the public eye. Doing this meant that they were risking their safty by going somewhere where they could not be protected. They age of our killer is unknown. We decided to keep this as it helps to build mystery in our thriller however he is also from the teenage age group even though the audience don't know this.