Evaluation Question 1

IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL PRODUCTS? 

I looked at the film Obsessed which we took inspiration from after analyzing the film because it was the same genre, Romantic Thriller, which we wanted our film to be, it was also aimed at similar audience. From this film, our media product has developed forms and conventions of Romantic Thriller movies. Specifically looking at the camera shots, angles and focuses, in the film Obsessed, establishing shots are widely used so we used establishing shots of Ben throughout the beginning to show the audience exactly what is happening which is him being drunk in a local park. Another shot type which is used throughout Obsessed is a close up, low angle with a deep focus on the characters faces to show their facial expressions so we have used this convention of real media product, to convey our characters emotions to the audience e.g when the main character which is played by Ben is hallucinating, you can clearly see his facial expression in which he shows signs of confusion and disturbance.

We also decided to develop forms and conventions of Romantic/Thriller through the sound we used in our opening. Our opening uses soft, calm yet suspenseful type of music throughout which is evident in most Romantic Thrillers such as Obsessed, The Tourist and Unfaithful.

Through the editing, we used conventions of Thrillers specifically looking at the film Obsessed which we analysed. We decided to use conventions which are already evident in Thrillers such as the use of match cuts, close ups and establishing shots. We however challenged the conventions of Thriller films as we decided to create a montage where we used cross cutting which isn’t a typical convention of science fiction films so we have created our own, unique method of conveying time to our audience, this adds suspense, as the audience would like to figure out what had happend earlier on in the film which is typically explained later on in the film.

As for the title sequence, we decided do go with the traditional conventions of film openings such as placing the company idents at the beginning, furthermore we carried on with conventional openings such as putting the write names in order and making it look professional. The following list shows the convention and order of title sequences which we have used in our film opening.

- Production Companies & Logos
- Movie Tittle/ Main Characters
- Costume/ Music/ Director of Photograpy/ Editing
- Producers
- Director