Our thriller film is probably best shown through YouTube which is a free video sharing website. This would be the best way to share our film as student film makers as it targets a wide audience of different age, gender and culture. Our target audience which is 16-24 year olds, aren't very likely to pay to watch our film, therefore YouTube is probably the best place. Also it will allow the audience view for free and give any feedback they wish to. Our thriller could also be put up on streaming sites, which is similar to YouTube and means that we wouldn't make a profit out of it, but would allow a lot of views.
However as film makers our film is independent and low budget, and therefore would probably be best exhibited in Art house theatres such as Cinema City. Because our film includes locations around Norwich, it would appeal and relate to audiences from this city. Also British independent films tend to do well in places like France and other European countries, so this would allow it to be globally viewed.
If our film was to be distributed through home entertainment, I would think that it would appear on channels such as Film4, because it is usually the type of TV channel that would exhibit indepedent films. If it was to be distributed professionally, I would expect the distributors to be ones such as Optimum releasing which distributed films such as Dead Man's Shoes. The films are similar so therefore would probably have the same techniques used for distribution and exhibition
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2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In our thriller film, our storyline only inludes male characters which means there are no female actors involved in our opening, so this creates a very male dominated genre. We didn't intend on omitting female social groups, it was just that male characters were well fitted to our storyline. The males in our film are all represented as gang members which suggests the type of people that are criminals.
Youths are also represented in this was because our film is also fairly youth dominated as two of our active characters are young 20s and the is around the age of 30. We don't have a proportional representaion of society because all characters are a similar age. Similarly, we only did this because it was convenient to use the actors we did and because it fitted well into our thriller as a reprentation on youths. I think the way we have portrayed our characters is a stereotypical view on teenagers and young adults. Their hoodies and jeans reflect their criminal ways therfore these characters do not represent all of youth society.
Our film also has a representation of family as a social group. It is one our the main themes in our film, because the whole storyline is based around it. The storyline enforces the importance of family, as the aim of our main character is to get revenge of the man that killed his twin brother. This suggests their love and closeness for family and friends.
Youths are also represented in this was because our film is also fairly youth dominated as two of our active characters are young 20s and the is around the age of 30. We don't have a proportional representaion of society because all characters are a similar age. Similarly, we only did this because it was convenient to use the actors we did and because it fitted well into our thriller as a reprentation on youths. I think the way we have portrayed our characters is a stereotypical view on teenagers and young adults. Their hoodies and jeans reflect their criminal ways therfore these characters do not represent all of youth society.
Our film also has a representation of family as a social group. It is one our the main themes in our film, because the whole storyline is based around it. The storyline enforces the importance of family, as the aim of our main character is to get revenge of the man that killed his twin brother. This suggests their love and closeness for family and friends.
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