Group 19

Evaluation Question 1

Q1- In what ways does your media product use, develop,or challenge forms and conventions of real media products

The main conventions of a film opening are music, title, establishing genre and editing. We followed these conventions.

Music is important in the opening of a film because it sets the mood and creates a certain atmosphere. For example the opening of a thriller film would not be the same as the music in the opening of a comedy film. The film 'se7en' opening music is tense and therefore establishes that its going to be a horror film.

Titles at the beginning of a film is important because it shows who has worked to create the film and the main characters names. The conventional order starts with the production company ident, distribution company,movie titles then cast name.

There was a lot of editing in our film, we were inspired by the the movie 'se7en' because they used lots of cuts of different movement/ action and it made it more exciting to watch rather than having a long narration.

To avoid confusion the opening should establish the genre. They can do this by showing the location and/or character. By doing this you get an idea of what genre it is. For example if the opening is dark and gloomy it would most probably be a horror film.

EVALUATION - Question 1

Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Here is a video explaining how we adapted the codes and conventions of a thriller in our own film:

EVALUATION - Question 2

Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Question 2

Representaion is the description or portrayal of something or someone in a particualar way or as being of a certain nature.

Theres lots of different kind of representation that can be potrayed in the media for example; gender, sexuality and regional identity. In our film we potrayed women in a positive aspect. We showed the main charecter as a strong and independent women who's trying to prove to her co-workers who are all men that she is just as good as them if not better.

In the film it shows the presure in women at work, as they try to do their job but have to face men putting them down and making them feel like they're weak. When people think of a spy agent they think of men, In our film we try to switch that view as the main spy agent is a women who is represented in a similar way as male spy agents.

Men were represented in a negative aspect, we captured their behaviour in the work place as over powering as they look down on the women because they think they're not good enough.

In the images it shows that women are powerfull. It also shows the battle at work with men to prove they are strong.