Evaluation Activity 1

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

This is the production title for the film, to design this, we used Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects. When designing this, we wanted to use large, bold letter to make it look like a professional production company logo.

This is a high angle shot of our protagonists sprinting through a puddle - we used this shot as our first shot of the opening because it sets the pace for the scene and with the pace being set as fast, it was our first genre indicator in the opening.

This is a tracking shot of our two protagonists sprinting, this is done to carry on from the first shot of them running through the puddle - the tracking shot also keeps the pace up which tells the audience that this will be a very fast paced opening and this will also stay true to the conventions of the Action film genre.

In this shot we see a close up of our first antagonist, we can instantly tell that this is one of the antagonists due to the costume and the balaclava. We can tell this because balaclavas are commonly associated with criminals/antagonists and shady characters. We can also tell this from the facial expression, we can see that he is concentrated on the two antagonists and is giving a very sinister stare.

In this shot, we see a medium close up of one of our two main protagonists - this is the only section where there is dialogue, this gives the impression that they have no time to speak as they are in danger.

In this scene, we see a medium shot of another antagonist, we can tell this from the costume and the props (MES) that are in their possession. We used a black style colour scheme for our antagonists because it connotes evil, death and mystery - the mystery aspect comes from the fact the audience do not know who these people are or why they are hunting down the protagonists.

This shot is a medium shot with one of our protagonists on the floor firing in a final stand against the antagonists, this scene in particular stays true to the conventions and clichés of the Action film genre - this is done as the protagonist has been shot many times by the antagonists but yet is still able to fire in defence.

This medium - long shot gives the perspective showing how our protagonists were outnumbered and that the antagonists where the superior faction in this opening of the film. We can see that the antagonists are all wearing black/shady clothing which suggests they are perhaps mercenaries of in a criminal group.

This final scene is a high angle shot of our protagonist on the floor in pain from being shot multiple times, the use of a high angle shot was to make our protagonist look vulnerable and weak in contrast to the antagonists. This final scene leaves a cliff hanger as to what will happen to this character.