Evalaution Question 1

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

To establish the scheme of our film, as a group we decided which genre of film we would all prefer to do. After time to think about it  we decided to do a Crime/action mafia  film, we all contributed to write a brief story line containing Two mafia groups who are arch rivals where one gets infiltrated by the other right under their noses three characters where one would murder the other.
The genre to our film is Crime/Action. To do this we used obvious, stereotypical mise en scene line guns and other mafia related props.

During the clip, we used a variety of camera angles and shot movements and positions. For example, during conversations, shot reverse shot was using to show the two characters having the conversation and their facial expressions towards one another. We also used close ups and extreme close ups to represent the same point. Establishing shots were used to set the scene and to show characters that were involved in each scene and their clothing..

For the mise-en-scene, we were very stereotypical to what each character would wear, for example dressing a mafia member in typical mafia suit: two piece, shirt and ties. This made the characters look that more dangerous and a profession in their field of work and can be recognised from the norm which is key so that it can deter lower class people to approach them as they are dangerous.

 For sound we used music and dialogue , the dialogue was recorded by both the HD camera and a zoom recorder we had to use a zoom recorder for the distance of the camera could not capture the sound clearly without being interrupted due to the outside environment. Then for the music we used free copyright website to get a nice piano music for the title sequence and throughout. 

Continuity and editing we used we used many cuts and editing technique to demonstrate continuity and passage of time as well. We used fades to demonstrate passage of time and also juxtaposition where it shows that two things are happening at the same time for example john walking down the street whilst the don and Michael are talking to each other and also john gets further down when it fades back to him to show that passage of time it had this makes it look very real which improves continuity and also make the audience believe for a split second that everything that is accruing is all real

Typography, for the font during the title sequence we used the bold Times New Roman font type and colour white to make it look more intimidating. We made the writing White to stand out from our black and white fuzzy background sequence as we thought if it was black it would blend in with the sequence and also most films opening sequence use white font as it would be more professional to look like the norm for the movies.

Iconography we had images in the title sequence what was interpretated to set the scene to set the scene also to illustrate the following of the film to give the audience a kind of idea of what is going to unravel.