Task 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Task 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Task 4: Who would be the Audience for your media product?

Our thiller will appeal to the target age group for most films 16-25 years of age. However, it may attract older fans of thrillers such as Seven as they have similar themes. It will probably appeal to a more male audience than women, so the main focus of our thriller was to appeal to men. We tried to make it appeal to them by casting a lead female who they may consider attractive and that may attract them to want to see our thriller. We also tried to put some action and mystery into our opening sequence by having the police team smash down the door and the Closed mystery surrounding the photos and how they were taken. The open ends left by our thriller should make the audience want to know the answers and therefore see the rest of the thriller. Blind Spot is also aimed more at an educated audience because as the main character, Jenna Smith, begins to unravel the mystery surrounding the photos, it become more complicated and this may be harder to follow for a less educated viewer.

Task 3:What Kind of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media Products?

I would suggest that Vertigo might produce our film.

Task 2: How does your product represent particular social groups?

Our media product represents the social group of the working police. This is very common amongst thrillers and our thriller does conform to the stereotypical representation of the investigating units of the police as showing their struggle with the things they uncover whilst working on the force. We chose to represent them as the fairer more publicly concerned side of the force rather than the more manic justice obssessed police force in films such as the horror movie The Crazies in which they mindlessly follow orders in eliminating an 'infected' town. However we decided to represent this by giving the lead character of Jenna Smith a confliction to uncover the mystery of the photos for the benefit of society as many of the photos contain picture of the public unaware of the photos being taken. We chose not to represent their home lives and make it seem to the audience that they live to work as opposed to working to live a rich live outside their job. We also tried to challenge the stereotypical female ideal of staying at home looking after the kids and doing the housework. Jenna does not have children or a partner and the supporting male character who was played by Richard reverses the gender roles as he is less authoritative and more reliant on Jenna in a feminine way. We chose Karis to play this character as she looks quite small and fragile so that way when the audience arere shown to the character that Jenna's personality highly contrasts her looks and therefore, is more prominent. We based this around examples of existing powerful female characters in media today, such as Evelyn Salt in Salt (released in 2010) who stands up as a powerful female character, however is on the opposite side of the law to our character of Jenna Smith and does have a husband who she is worried for and leans on.