Media evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 1

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

Comparing To Other Films

• Our film is a typical, action based thriller which is mainly shown in a chase scene.

• A hit thriller is normally one which people have a goal to achieve and would do anything in their path to get in completed. Something or someone could also be added to the question to prolong the goal in such a way that is action based and more exciting than a plain and simple story line.

• With that in mind we were inspired by films such as James Bond, The Bourne Identity and Die Hard as all three of them had an enemy in the film increasing the action to the film which we found very appealing.

Comparing To Other Films

James Bond-Skyfall Train fight scene

The Bourne Ultimaum- Waterloo chase scene

Die Hard

Comparing To Other Films

• Notice through the development of my blog, I always had the idea of a busy Waterloo Station chase scene. The Borne Ultimatum Waterloo Chase scene inspired me greatly and although we did not go ahead with that due to legal reasons, as director that stayed in my head when filming shots.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUd5RPVDjPY

• Above is a link to the Waterloo chase scene

Comparing To Other Films• Again, if you look at my development through

my blog, I chose the costumes which were similar to the smart suits used in James Bond hoping a James Bond theme was shown in the film. We did not want a school film look in our film we wanted a film looking as professional as possible and the James Bond franchise shows costumes can give good impressions.

Die Hard

• Die hards content was too high budget to influence us with the use of explosions, fast cars etc but what originally caused myself to watch the Die Hard films was the name because it a very short and snappy name which drew people towards the film. We wanted something which screamed action thriller, similar to Die Hard but slightly more subtle. This is how the film Die Hard influenced our film.

Why We Kept To The Conventions Of The Form

• Keeping conventions of classic, famous thriller films was important to us so that it was almost certain to be appealing to our target audience.

• In terms of why we kept things the same, once our film was complete we were very happy with it because between shots the film seemed to flow quiet nicely resulting in our film looking quiet good.

• We kept how our film felt because with the props and costumes, variety of camera angles and good chase scene(for the time given) there was a really good feel to the film and in some shots it felt like a combination between James Bond and the Bourne films which is what we wanted so meant we didn’t really want to change the feel of the film.

Why We Kept To The Conventions Of The Form

• On a whole our film did behave similar to the professional films we were inspired by with a good combination of tracking/moving shots and stationary shots. We did have to reshoot a number of shots due to the lighting and wrong use of camera shots. Due to our destination changes we started filming a lot later than we planned so nearer the end of our shoot some shots were shot in very dark light. We continued filming but after looking at the footage we did think that professional films would not have light changes through the film so to try and give our film that extra professional standard we reshot a lot of scenes to keep the consistency of shots very high.

Did We Challenge The Typical Conventions Of A Thriller Film?

• Most of the shots taken did follow the classic conventions of a thriller film simply because we did not want to imply different things with the wrong camera angles etc.

• On the other hand you could say that we did challenge the typical conventions of a thriller because in most cases the ‘goodie’ normally emerges victorious and although this is only the opening to our film it unclear as to who the good character is so adds instant suspense within two minutes of the film whereas a typical thriller has a storyline at this point.