Evaluation Task 3:

Evaluation Task 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product?

The production company DNA films would be ideal to distribute our product because the company has worked with some well known producers such as Danny Boyle who produced Slummdog millionaire, Shallow grave, 127 hours. The fact that DNA films is a well known producer makes the company have a higher concept, which would make other countries interested in our thriller product. Vertigo Films is an option however DNA is bigger than Vertigo Films because it has had more hits and Vertigo hasn't produced any similar product whereas DNA films has.

The production of '28 Days Later' was also founded by DNA films, which highlights that fact that DNA films may be the correct media institution to distribute our film because it is a British film set in London and has a similar storyline.

I would say that our product is low concept, however contains some high concept areas such as special effect. The idea of the rest of the film consists of an end of the world apocalypse story and this would include special effects and maybe 3D, so the fact that DNA films has produced some 3D films such as Dredd, also indicates that this would be a suitable suggestion to distribute our product. In Addition, Potentially a Hollywood film studio such as Warner bros could produce our thriller product because it has done similar products with similar storyline such as I am legend.


DNA films is an English company who produced the film '28 days later' which had a budget of 6 million, this is a similar budget which would be appropriate for our product. However, if our budget was the same as the budget for I am Legend which was 150 000 000 our product could be high concept because our thriller focuses on the tent idea and with a huge budget we could expand the end of the world idea and create an apocalypse scene using special effects which would make our film more high concept, but without this our product would be seen as a lower concept. However, DNA films does include some special effects therefore making is a more high concept company, but compared to the film I am legend our thriller is seen as having a reasonably low concept.

Although there are different production companies such as vertigo films, who have produced other thrillers such as Out post and Shrooms. We have chosen DNA films to produce our product because it has produced similar films such as Dredd which contains special effects and although isn't the an end of the world story, the storyline is an idea which could lead to there being an end of the world situation and suggests the same ideas and maybe in the future our story could follow on from the Dredd storyline.
DNA is bigger than vertigo films because it has had more hits.

Evaluation Task 2:

How does your product represent particular social groups?

During our thriller we made the choice to include 1 main character during our opening title sequence, which means we can only talk about 1 social group, which is a 'white male.' In hollywood films the main males roles are dominated by white actors.


The picture of Adam (the main character) standing up doesn't look like he belongs in the environment of an abandoned house with boarded up windows, suggests that he has been on the run and has settled down and been in hide out in the first location he could.

 In I am legend the same situation is presented. Although there is a different racial group I am Legend presents the same ideas, which consist during our thriller The 'Third Circle.' I am Legends opening sequence presents isolation and the majority of the shots are of the main character Will Smith. This same idea is shown during our thriller because all the opening shots from inside of the tent consist of the main character, the hero of the film. For example:
picking up the axe presents him heroically and this presents a white male posistive representation.Even though the main character is outside, it still shows the same idea that there is isolation and he is armed, which suggests that is there a threat. Similar ideas are presented during our thriller. During the rest of the film we had in mind the end of the world Apocalypse storyline again similar ideas to I am legend.

Another example for a Hollywood film which has casted their main characters from white male actors is the film 'Looper.' During there opening sequence trailer there is a shot of a conversation taking place between the two white main characters. The shots are close ups and this links with the extreme close of our characters face in our first few opening shots from inside the tent, these close up shots shows the social side to the product which cosists of a white male main lead.

There is positive representation of socialism because the main male actor is presented in a heroic way and we can only asume it is positive becasue there is one character and there is nothing which can counter the positiveness.

Evaluation Task 1:

Finished Opening Sequence: Third Circle

Finishing up the editing

On the final day of editing we went through the whole video making sure there was nothing that needed to be corrected and we put the opening thriller sequence into HD because it makes the shots look clearer and made the white string on top of the black background stand out more.

Editing the sound

Before we added any sound. We had to go through the whole video and see if there was a few seconds of just silence, which we could copy throughout the video. We did this by on the shoot day we recorded a track of complete silence. We then added the sound. We didn’t include a sound track, but we used soundtrack pro to create the wind sounds and use the effects such as the reverb and delay making the background sound more creepy and eerie.

Editing the titles

We then chose the places where we wanted the titles to go, this was often where the largest empty space was. We used motion tracker, which ensured that the movement of the string was the same as the movement of the title. We then attached some of the titles to the strings, these where the movement strings and we decided how long we wanted the title to be there. On the fade to focus shots, we also made the titles fade and then focus, to give the idea that the names were attached to the strings.