Product Evaluation Q1

Evaluation Question 1

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

Example and Description	Explanation of how it uses, develops, challenges conventions
Title of Film	The title of our film is ‘It never happened’ this title suggests that the two characters in the film didn’t want people to know what they did and they wanted to keep their murder a secret. We decided to do this so that the audience had a slight knowing of what the film was about. We decide to use the same convention from a film that we were influenced by. The film “I’ll always know what you did last summer” was an example of the type of film we wanted to create. The title suggests that something bad has happened like in our film title.
Location/ Setting	Our film starts off in the forest, like in most murder films this is a typical setting. To get the feeling we wanted we decided to use the same setting as in the other thriller films that use that similar scene. The film ‘The Hunger Games’ is a great example of what type of setting we were trying to create. The woods we are using a quite dark and mysterious, we decided to use the same type of setting that was used in the ‘Hunger Games’ as it would work well with our genre of film.
How the characters were introduced	We wanted our characters to be introduced after the title sequence; we wanted this because it would be able to add more effect for the viewer. This gives the viewer more suspicion to who the boys are. We got the idea to do this from the film ‘Hot Fuzz’. We were influenced by this film because they had a murderer that was not known and you had to guess who they were. I our film we decided to introduce the characters quicker so they audience were only wondering who the killers were for a short part of the film.
Genre	Our film has been based around the thriller/ social realism genre. We had been influenced by other films like ‘Kidulthood’ and ‘Seven’. Both of these films are surrounded by murder and lying. We felt that this would best fit our film. In seven there has been a murder and the film is about covering up the murder. Then in Kidulthood it is an extremely social realism film. The film is showing the day life of a London teenager. We decided that these two films really highlighted our film and could come out in the opening scene.
Costumes	The costumes that we got our actors to wear were really influence by recent television series. We really wanted to make our film suitable for a social realism film. To do this we needed to make our characters look as much like modern teenagers as possible. The two TV programs that we decided to get our costumes from were ‘Misfits’ and ‘Skins’. These two series are the most modern that we could find. The costumes that the characters wear are really up to date. The clothes that they wear are the type of clothes we want our characters to wear.