Evaluation Question 1

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

A convention is a reappearing way of presenting something and is usually represented through a media product which is typical to that type of product and its genre (for our product this is an action thriller film opening).

Our media product uses some forms and conventions of our chosen genre, action-thriller, such as fast-paced tension created through a dramatic soundtrack during the rendezvous of the two cars at the multi-storey car park building.

During our research, we looked at film openings that involved a rendezvous between cars at a shady setting mainly at car parks in built up areas. They all involved the hijacking from a protagonist to prevent a shady deal from going down between two antagonists. All of them were under the action thriller genre and that ended up being the genre we settled on for our film opening. However, we didn't have the time or resources to film our film opening in a built-up area in Central London. Instead, we decided to film our opening in Banbury Castle Quay car park because it was fairly local to all of us as we all live near Banbury.

For our titles and actor/director/producer etc credits, we decided to use white text and overlay the credits over the start of our film opening. The simplicity of our titles conveys that our film has a linear and simple narrative storyline that will be easy for our audience to understand and consume our film opening. Furthermore, it also conform to the conventions of our chosen genre action thriller as it is more plain and dark. This is similar to Heat because they are the same genre as our main film opening.