Monday, 11 January 2016

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

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


This is my first evaluation question. It talks about conventions and where they appear or are adapted in my film opening. I have discovered that slide share is limiting, as it doesn't show the music clips, which are incorporated into the slideshow. The music are shown below.





Notes Taken Before Making PowerPoint 

Discuss ways your sequence looks like other films from within your chosen genre and in which ways it differs from them. Refer to 2 or three films.

Saving Private Ryan- Music, Old man, Subtlety
Forrest Gump- Music, Titles Subtlety
Goal II- The sense of elegance to it with the classical music over the football which is similar to the subtlety of our film opening. Goal 2 dives straight into the action being more of a sport film than drama.

Discuss why you have kept to the conventions of the form. (how the film looks, feels, behaves similarly to professional films)

We kept to the conventions mainly of a drama because we wanted the film to be gentle at first and then show a huge contrast between the old man and the young boy, like in Private Ryan, its portrayed by the music, the shots are shorted and the pace feels more intense. We tried to think about every physiological aspect of our film in order to make our feel see as professional as it could be in the given circumstances.

Discuss in which ways you have challenged the conventions of the form.


Using black and white colour change. Most sport films start with the sport-taking place, but our film is more of a drama in my opinion and that’s displayed by the music. The film challenges conventions by...

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