Evaluation lesson 1.

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











2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
similar representational issues. Compare and contrast.]]]

Screenshot from Trainspotting.

Both of these key characters have similar representational values, for example getting kicks out of steeling, and breaking the law could be related to our crime caper.Each screen shot identifies the social group ,which are similar kind of people, being yobs and possibly a lower social class that cannot afford buying the goods they steal.
Kicks from naughty things
identifying this social group as yobs
lower social class staling. The use of ensemble cast in the two productions.
They look similar in the way they are dressed both wearing scruffy, non formal,
causal clothes.They have the same determined look to escape.The role they play is different in context you don't now who's the antagonist in each situation.Representation of young people
both in groups/gangs up to no good.Each group is familiar with each other in the way of interaction like nicknames and how they are.

3.What kind of a media institution might distribute your media product and why? (Notes By JJ)

The film "Snatch" has a similar style to that of our own, featuring a starter scene of them robbing a bank. The media institution that distributed that production was Columbia Tristar and their logo looks like this:


Now compared to our logo, quite clearly this has had proffesionals go at it, instead of us having a go in photoshop. But even so we can compare our logo'a to the type of films distributed by them. I have seen this production copanies logo come up in many films i've seen, which shows they have a braod range of films they could produce. Here are just a few examples of other films they have worked with more recently:
Hellboy (2004) ...
Secret Window (2004) ...
50 First Dates (2004) ...
Hitch (2005/I) ... Are We There Yet? (2005)

So these would be an ideal ditributor for our film, as they are experianced and do a large amount of films that have become quite popular. Also they have had experience with crime caper movies and sponsering them, like "snatch" and they would be an ideal popular experiences distributor to choose.
Another distibutor could be: Miramax Films (US)PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (worldwide) who worked together to ditribute the film "Trainspotting" who'sogo looks like this :

For the same reason again, with having experience in diributing these kind of films, and they are better known in the US, which is a huge market.
I'm pretty sure our production would be low budget, but it all depended on if we had a bigger budget to spend or not. Obviousy with the distributor handing out this money we had to pay it back on the big screen, so maybe a smaller budget film would be better. Trainspotting's budget was: £3,500,000 and im pretty sure we wouldnt be going over this with a production like ours. As the films are similar with just a different area of crime, their's being drugs ours apples. Our film really would be released in the same way, maybe with a bit more of an all star cast to ring up to these distributors standards.