Evaluation question 1

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

How we used forms of conventions:

• Like every film opening, we put the title of the production company first and then let the very beginning of our footage flow into the last title which is the name of our film. This is done by fading from black and letting the sound continuing from the black between transitions.
• In our production, we used the conventions of a gangster film we included codes which included guns, cigars, whiskey,
• We created a film noir appearance of the film, it is typical of a gangster/crime film, we done this by putting a black and white filter over the footage and heavily contrasting the light used.

How we developed form and conventions:

• We created an enigma,we kept diaglogue to a minimum, we done this so that we did not give away  of the context of what is to come in the film
• Like film openings, we didn't give much away about the characters however, we did introduce the main ones.  The victim is the only character in which whom the audience mainly associates with but the main, sinister figures (the woman and the shooter) are not to be understood as that is what the film aims to explain, this is done to keep the audience watching the film. We tried not to include much of their faces, this is done to keep this detachment from the audience.

How form and conventions are challenged :

• Most gangster films we looked into had more dialogue in the beginning, it would either, be a voice over or a conversation between characters, we felt there would be more suspense would be created if we did not have much dialogue. And also, it means the audience can focus more of the visual aspect of the opening rather instead of focusing on what is being said.