Evaluation Question 1 :

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

What are conventions of film openings?

• Establishing shots
• Enigma
• Narrator
• Introduce characters
• Set the story
• Set the scene/date/location
• Music can reflect genre and mood
• Lighting can also set a tone

The conventions of our genre

• Introduction of characters
• Set the story
• Music reflecting genre and mood
• Enigma

The conventions of our film

• Set the story
• Music reflecting the genre and mood
• Enigma

      Costume – long coats, dark clothes,

      Lighting – low key lighting, dark

      Actors – tall, mysterious males

      Make up – darkness , limited

      Props – a murder weapon usually small or simple,

      Setting – old buildings, police station 

    

Costumes

We have added some long coats, but added some camouflage jackets, (which is going against the usual conventions the genre.)  this is because in a detective film, it is important to distinguish the police from the armed forces, however, I felt as director , that it should establish who is and who isn’t a police officer by giving them a certain type of coat.

Another thing we have done against the genre is to only show the antagonist (Kane – the killer) but not show the protagonist, for fear of overcrowding the short space of time we had.

Location

We went along with the police building, and shot the press conference as a police style interview.

 

By adding the news titles we could change the boring image of just the press conference to a live news story which changes the type of genre slightly.

The old buildings we thought we would stick with because it keeps the mystery part of the genre within the film. So we found a old factory by a road where we could shoot the footage, so we could keep the exchanging people within shot.

An  image of a old building set from Sherlock Holmes 

Camera shots

This shot is from the film “shooter”, we decided that it was a good shot to have in our production, because the shot shows a master shot and/or the targets, to clarify motives of the character to the audience.

This is the similar shot we used:

Our shot shows the targets and the antagonist (Kane – the killer).

Conclusion

Our film uses similar conventions and shots to other crime and mystery films, to make our genre recognisable, however we have challenged some conventions to differ slightly so we can make something more unique with a guidance from the conventions of the crime and mystery genre.