1. Evaluation Part 1 By Emma Waite

2. Question 1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 3. My film opening was under the genre action and there were many conventions that I stuck with. The first thing that comes to mind is the sound, I used very traditional action film music which was fast pace and very energetic. The music I used was from Kevin MacLeod and it was royalty-free. The categories that this music is described are: action, dark, driving, epic, intense and suspenseful, all these words I associate with an action film and the music of an action film. The first option on the next slide shows the music that I used and another example of an action music from the film.. and both I believe have very similar themes involved and sounds. The narrative of my film is that the main character has been hiding out in the forest from the villain in my opening. The villain turns up at the forest and the main character jumps from a tree and the sound makes the villain react and the chase scene begins. In nearly all the action films that I have seen there is a chase scene present, if its a running, car, motorbike or plane there seems to be at least one. To stay with the conventions I wanted to have a chase scene in my opening. The safest chase scene and the most realistic that I could achieve was a on foot chase scene so I but this at about 35 seconds into my opening. In all action films are is a villain and a hero and this is one convention that I was defiantly going to stick with. With the editing I mainly used a simply cut because I wanted the shots to look quick and jumpy to link to the action. Looking at the action films that I have watch such as: Fast Five, Star Trek Into Darkness, Salt and Casino Royale, all use a simple cut and this is a convention that I stuck to as-well. The shots in my chase scene have moving and non moving and I stayed with conventions because I have both. In the films I have watch the camera work is mainly moving I mainly used a stationary camera, this I did because I found moving the camera smoothly was very difficult but I do regret not have a couple more shots that are moving, such as: pan, track or tilt. Because I didnt use a lot of moving shoots, I didnt stay with the conventions of the shots in a chase scene. 4. In all but one film I looked at the main character is a man and this is where I challenged conventions. I changed the main character to a woman because I wanted to show that women can be the hero and can safe the world as well as men. The setting of my opening, Epping Forest, went against conventions because most action films are set in urban places because of the use of gadgets and the a busy city suits the action more. Looking at the film The Hunger Games the setting was in a forest and this I thought would go well with my storyline. I challenged conventions with the setting of my opening. The clothing I used for the villain I think stayed with the conventions of a villain because the actor is wearing a hood and I have seen films such as Harry Brown, were the villains wear hoods. The heros clothing I took inspiration from the film The Hunger Games because the clothing, I thought, suited the setting. When looking at title sequences from action films, like, Quantum of Solace, Star Trek Into Darkness and Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, they all seemed to have a separate title sequence to the actual footage and this I used with the convention. I produced a separate title sequence to the action and placed at the end of the chase sense. The titles I used stayed with conventions to make it look as much like an action film as possible. For the wording of the titles I looked at other film openings and used what I thought would suit best for my opining. 5. Music Links Music I used: Music from the film Casino Royal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZxNbAwY_rk 6. Links Films Links to films I took inspiration from: James Bond Casino Royal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZxNbAwY_rk Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_CiueLzMMY Fast Five: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf6nfEZgorY Star Trek Into Darkness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwGVSNv_H1U The Hunger Games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FovFG3N_RSU Harry Brown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaO2mtw9KRw Hitman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-LeR7VZ-g4