Final Evaluation

My media product was influenced by the life of Jack the Ripper. The story was based on women victims of Jack who were earning income as prostitutes. We then decided to change the story but stick with the same concept. Therefore, we based our production on a girl who is a prostitute and who is followed by a mysterious man and eventually gets murdered. We used traditional camera angles when filming for example, when filming the beginning of this product we used angles such as high angle/low angle, Close ups and medium shots when filming the main characters.


This production represents a variety of social groups such as, powerful men because the person that plays the part as the murderer is a man, it also conveys female victims and venerable women because, it conveys the way women can easily be trapped and hurt.

Film-Four would be a good institution to distribute my product because it distributes thrillers and horror movies for example, residents of evil and Franklyn. Another media institution would be True Movies because my product is based around a true story. The audience for my product will be for people aged around 16 to 35, as I don’t think young people below the age of 16 should be viewing this product as it does contain images which may be of bad influence. I do think that both sexes male and female would be able to view this as it does represent both genders. This will interest the people who enjoy thrillers and history, as my film does go back to the jack the ripper story. People of all different background and ethnicity will enjoy this production.

I attracted my audience in many ways firstly, the build up to the scene as the audience do not know what is happening at the beginning because they just see a girl which raises questions, in their heads. Sound effects such as screaming and footsteps were used to slowly grab the audience’s attention when the victim is being followed but you can’t work out whom she is being stalked by because you cannot see the stalkers face.



I addressed the audience by the lighting I used, which explains what time of day it was which made my product a typical thriller because it was set in darkness. The back ground music that my group and I used also made my product seem like a thriller because as my product was building in suspense the music was quiet at first then started to get loud gradually which also added tension to my product.


During the process of constructing my thriller and editing my clips together I have learnt how to use the camera well e.g. changing the lights on the camera, holding the camera appropriately to capture the necessary footage. I learnt how to capture different angles and basic techniques for example, zooming in and how to capture high angles and low angles. When editing I learnt how to import clips from the tape onto the scratch disk I learnt how to edit pieces together and cut pieces that I didn’t want out. And I also learnt how to use different effects for example, sound e.c.t although there aren’t many effects in my film.
When editing there were a few technical problems however these were easily overcome by practising around with editing techniques.


Looking back on my preliminary tasks, I have learnt how to make use of various lighting, how to control the camcorder and how to get focused as a group. I feel that I have grown hugely in skill from the first task I undertook. It has taught me about teamwork and working independently, overall I have thoroughly enjoyed myself whilst making this film.However this product could have been improved by spending more time on the editing and using more effects such as different sounds during the production and props.

My production

My production is about a mysterious character who only has one advantage, and that is to murder. This mysterious character has many victims. The beginning of the production is suppose to show the character drinking at a pub and having flash backs of the victims he murdered and the streets, he murdered them on. All the victims are prostitutes and get targeted and attacked when they least expect it. No music will be added to this production to give it a mysterious silent effect. The characters who we are going to use are all the 3 main casts as the prostitutes who get murdered and one boy who will cast as the murderer. The main idea behind this project is to inspire history as we used the idea of jack the ripper to inspire are story. We used various locations for our production firstly, we filmed ouside near college then, we filmed in brick lane this was done to get more background footage.


The atmosphere for are production will be very tense the lighting we will be using is dark and natural light.
So far we have no idea for props, my group and i are planning to were normal clothing. We will being taking extra shots for
each scene to decide the best one to use for our actually production. We are also planning to take a variety of different camera angles for example, medium shot, medium close up cut,low angle and high angle to see which one works best for the scene.

My First Practical

For my first practical task, filming a character walking into a room, my group and i decided on what role we would play in this production. My role within the group was to film, certain shot types for example, long shot and close ups. I was pleased with the beginning because my group and i, were able to produce good shots although we found technical difficulties when using the cam-corder for example, when trying to do a long angle shot the camera repeatedly faced upwards, in which we had to find other ways to record. When editing the clips together it all came together nicely, We encountered a few problems when editing the sequences together because we could not import some of the clips onto the computer, However, we did resolve these problems by fast-forwarding the film and asking, for assistance. This task enabled me learn how to import clips from a cam-corder onto a computer. If i were to repeat the task i will make sure i watch the whole film before i import everything at once on the computer, to make sure all my clips are on, and that i have captured all th necessary footage. The footage that i was not pleased with was the clips with the two characters at the end having a conversation because they continually laughed in the process of the clips which made it hard to fit the clips together at the end also most of the camera angle we use were different in each clip so it made it difficult to fit all the scenes together. However, i was pleased with the end result of the filming because when it was put together it all looked really good.