Evaluation Question 4: How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation

Evaluation Question 3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

For our audience feedback, we filmed a group of our target audience watching the teaser trailer and to record there reactions.
overall We got a positive reaction saying that the film was good, full of mystery and well editted. We even got a round of applause at the end.

Another way to get audience feeback was to make a questionnaire about the trailer.
These are the results.

Editing and Camera

Evaluation Question 2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

I think the combination of our trailer and the ancillary tasks are very effective. They both convey the action/thriller genre by having the recurring action pose of the main protagonist. It also spreads mystery due to the taglines, the dark gritty backgrounds and unusual title font.

Evaluation Question 1: in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation Question 1: in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our film has also challenged the conventions of having guns and explosions in a thriller film mainly because we wanted the film to be more mysterious and less Cliché but we have tried to use violence for example the punch scene with the main protagonist and one of the three blockers.
In early idea brainstorming, we wanted a scene where a blocker is attacking the protagonist with nunchuks and a small shot of the protagonist hold a gun.

In Editting

In editing we have conformed to the conventions of a thriller film as we have used quick editing techniques we have also used dark lighting where possible. We have also used many of the shots that are usually present in a thriller film.

In Character

Our Film has challenged many different stereotypes within Action/Thriller. The main antagonist in our film is a female which isn’t normally seen in action/thriller films as most antagonists are strong males who is against everything the protagonist believes in. She also acts like a damsel in distress which also challenges the stereotype Female characters in thriller films are usually used as prizes in the propp narrative theory; they usually cannot fight, need the main protagonist to save them and usually a love interest between them. An Example of a film that also challenges this is Run Lola Run.

Another form we challenged was ethnicity between the mentor and the protagonist The mentor in our film is of Muslim ethnicity. Much like in the film Die Hard where the mentor cop is black and the main protagonist is white. Usually the mentor is an older family member or a close friend and they are both white especially in Hollywood films.

The main protagonist in thrillers are usually a built up man who has been through vigorous training and traumatic experiences, whereas in our film the main protagonist is a just an average Joe. This makes it more relatable to our audience and it doesn’t look too cliché.
Our film did stick with the amount of henchmen/’Bad Guys’ that are usually in Action/Thriller films however much like the protagonist they are average looking teenagers.

Final Product - Distrutto Teaser Trailer

Ancillary task - Poster

This is the Poster for our Film.



I decided to use the photo of Phil jumping over the wall for our Poster because it is a very action oriented. I added effects using Photoshop elements such as adding noise and cropping Phil and pasting him on another layer in front and then blurred the background. This made Phil more eyecatching and the center of attention.

I took inspration from Film Posters such as the Inseption poster for the enigma codes and the big red title of the film.

Prop List

Whilst creating the storyboard for the teaser trailer, We found out that we didn't need that many props. We were considering to have a fake hand Pistol and a Nunkuck but we decide to drop them because we felt they were too over dramatic for a teaser and out film is meant to create a mystery.

These were the props we actually used in the trailer.

-Bag – when main protagonist receives the ransom in the alleyway


- Buff – to hide one of the blockers face to keep him secretive and to create a sense of unease for the audience

-Two phones – this is to stage the breakup of the couple