Welcome

Dear Examiner, I hope you enjoy reading my blog and following in my footsteps of how we created Somnium. I feel like I have learnt A lot since starting the course and I hope this is evident from my blog, which I have used labels on, to help you find everything you are looking for. Please watch our sequence located below:

Question 2: how does your media product represent a particular social group?

Our Media product is representing a young girl. The way we portray this young girl is innocent and sweet but also dark on the inside. I was the actor who played the young girl in our opening sequence and in order to make myself look the way needed i had to wear pyjamas with small animals on them and I had to plait my hair as a young girl would. in the opening sequence we do not see much of the girls troubled mind but what we do have is the nightmare scene in which she is pulled into darkness. We tried to portray as scared but not terrified, almost as though she is looking for a way out of the dream. As im not as young as the character I had to think of the night when I had nightmares as a young child, how it made me feel and then I applied that to the character.

Question 3: what media institution might distribute your project and why?

Question 4: Who would the target audience be for your film?

For this question I set up a poll and analysed the results. Unfortunately I could not link the poll. but the results were:

1 vote for under 16
4 votes for 18+
0 votes for 60+

Even though not  many people voted on the poll, its is still very obvious which age they think it is most appropriate for and who our target audience is. this poll reflect what we wanted it to and we also believe that our audience is young adults. Our audience needs to be over 18 as that is the rating it would have if it were to be judged by the BBFC because of the imagery that it contains. We were aiming to cater to theses audiences by using stronger language and elements of fear that come older people may not appreciate.

Question 5: how did you attract/address your audience

To answer this question I created a powerpoint that goes through each of the techniques I used to atract and address our audience.

Somnium Powerpoint 

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

For this question I have created a website using Weebly. Weebly allows users to create websites, blogs and even retail sites but i have used it to create a website solely for the purpose of answering this question.
Please visit my website to see my answer to this question: http://katiesasevaluation.weebly.com/

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

For this question I will be doing a directors commentary as I feel this would be the most appropriate way of answering a question about how our product uses and challenges conventions of horror. I will be speaking over the sequence and inputting why we did the things that we did in order to follow or challenge horror conventions.