Evaluation 1

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

These are 9 clips that I print screened from my film opening and put together, these clips belong to our film 'Dream Chaser' which is a thriller film that we made. We filmed from various different angles to achieve the best quality and show the film properly without breaking any of the rules. We mainly used high angles because we wanted to take it from a CCTV perspective, because this makes it more mysterious and it's like someone always watching you, which I think works very well because it's a thriller genre. There are only two characters in our film and both are portrayed well, we did not use dialogue but you can tell who is the antagonist and who is the protagonist just by looking at the costumes and facial expressions of the actors. So that we achieve this CCTV perspective we also added effects to our clips to make it blurry and we also made the clips black and white.

Frame #1

The first picture shows 'Brent Cross' shopping centre, this is the location we chose to film our film opening. This shot is an establishing shot it clearly shows the location (where its taking place and where we filmed). This picture is in black and white because its supposed to show it in a CCTV point of view. This is a high angle so you can see the the sign saying 'Brent Cross' and we chose a high angle so that people could easily identify what place it is. By using this black and white CCTV view we can see that it could be under the thriller genre because it doesn't set a happy mood, the audience may feel that its a bit mysterious and by looking at the colours they can see something 'dark' is going to happen.

Frame #2

The second credit is the name of the film director Richard Pitt, it says 'A Richard Pitt film', which shows that this film is directed by Richard Pitt, and he is one of the most important people making the film that's why his name comes before everything. Also the background is black with white writing which goes with the colour of the opening of the film, and giving it dark colours also shows the that it could come under a thriller genre. 

Frame #3

The third picture is one of the main scenes in the film opening because this is where the protagonist picks up the present for his girlfriend (a little teddy bear), and this bear is one of the main key features in this film because there is going to be some sort of confusion including the bag with the bear and maybe the antagonist. This is also and important scene because this is where the first character is introduced, this is also taken from a high angle to show that its from a CCTV point of view from inside the shop. We used a special effect to make it blurrier but we did not change the colour, because we wanted to show the colours of the clothes the protagonist is wearing and by looking at the way he is dressed we can see that he is a 'good' character, and also the location shows that he could be 'good' character as he is in a toy store to pick up a teddy bear. 

Frame #4

Next is the name of our film 'Dream Chaser' this is also an important thing, because without this we cannot identify what the film is, and every film has a name and the name of the film must be portrayed well. We used a normal font because we did not want to give away too much of the film by making the font very attractive. 

Frame #5

The fourth picture, I think is the most important picture in the entire film opening because this is where both protagonist and antagonist cross paths. This is also where our antagonist enters, we did not chose a high angle here because we wanted to show that both antagonist and protagonist have equal power. 

Frame #6

I think that this is a very good scene because it captures the elevator closing on the antagonist, and we use medium shot so that we can see the antagonist but not all of him and mainly so we can capture his facial expression while the elevator closes. Unlike when the protagonist was introduced we used a black and white effect which makes the antagonist more mysterious and because its dark we can see that this is a 'bad' person, this also fits in with the genre. Also unlike the antagonist our protagonist is wearing all black and a hat and a scarf which he could use to hide his face, he is a very shady character. The elevator closing on the antagonist is a good shot because it shows that a door is closing on him and that its a good finish. 

Frame #7

The next picture is the name of one of our main characters, the name of this character came first because if its a big named actor their names always come before everything else. Aymen Soliman is playing the role of the antagonist, this also has a black background with white text, all the fonts had to be the same for everyone. 

Frame #8

This shows the name of the producer and as the producer is very important we put his name in the middle and its larger then most people who contributed to the film. His name is also on a black background with white font so it goes with all the other ones. 

Frame #9

This is a very important shot in the whole film, because this is where the tape is dropped and our antagonist thinks that it was taken by the protagonist and so all the problems begin. we clearly show that the tape has fallen on the floor and both characters walk away from it. We achieved the shot by a high angle, we went from a long shot of the tape to a close up and you can see it zoom in each time to get a clearer view of the tape and by doing this I think it shows the importance of the tape. We also made this black and white and blurry because this has also been shown by a CCTV point of view.