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A2 MEDIA EVALUATION

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

• Film Poster• Short Film• Review

When given the brief, we knew we had to make a 5 minute short film and 2 ancillary tasks. We decided that a review and poster would best match the film, so we did research into existing poster and review.

FILM POSTER

The Film poster that we created can be linked to a conventional drama poster. When we did our research into this genre we found out that they all use a similar colour scheme, they are sometimes black and white, yellow, or even some blue but mostly grayish colour. On the left you can see our poster and examples of some that are similar in the same genre. There were also lots of posters that use more than one picture in the poster. We took these

FILM POSTER

Other drama poster conventions:

• Portrait layout• Dark colours • Main character or characters at the from of the page• Fade on some images

Our drama film poster conventions:

• Main character is at the front• Simple text not a overload of text.• Plain background

FILM

The film that we made linked to the typical drama genre. When we did the research we found out that drama films always have 1 person that they focused on and they always have something happen to them. We kept a similar style in our film to keep the conventions.

FILM

Typical drama conventions:• They use real life situations with realistic characters.• Portrays journeys of character development.• Intense social interaction.• Purpose of a dramatic story line is to move the

audience.Our Films drama conventions• It shows character development.• It uses real life situations and realistic characters.• Our film also makes the audience feel emotional

connection with the characters.

REVIEW

The first thing we did was we took inspiration from empire magazine in the style of the review. We also used a 5 star rating system. Ultimately we did not change anything in the style of the review because reviews have a set style and if they don’t keep to it then people will not understand it. We included a plot, review, verdict and release date sections matching existing reviews. Sticking to conventions of a review.