Evaluation question 1- In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

Here I will be using screenshots to describe how alike/different our media product is from real media products.

This is our first shot, it goes with the usual conventions of a media product as it is a pan and establishing shot. Media products often let the viewer know where they are before starting the story. We have adapted this usual convention in that we have made it a mid shot not a long shot, usually establishing shots are long shots so that you can get a view of everything, it is clearer than using a mid shot. Although we wanted to do a mid shot as we wanted our opening to be mid and close ups to show emotion and set a tone, make the viewers sense a closeness to and between the characters.

This is our fourth shot, it is very typical and conventional in that it is a close up to show emotions and create a sad tone which sets up the rest of the movie to be upsetting. But unlike usual media products this shot is longer than usual close ups. We did a longer shot on his face as we wanted to create alot of enthasis on the fact that he is the one upset. Although they would both be upset in a break up situation it creates an enigma, why is he more upset? Is he the one that hurt her or was it the other way around? We needed the viewer to see that he was more upset than our female character.

This is shot 7, it is unconventional to differ the credits between text on the screen and creative credits. We chose to do creative credits for both of the actors names as it introduces the characters on screen with their names, the viewer can then feel closer to the characters and get to know them more so before watching the whole movie. We were also unconventional in that we did a zoom blur, in that we zoomed in on the phone, then blurred it out to add to the visuals.

This is our 14th shot and is our first proper shot outside of the previous setting being the two homes. The shot is conventional in that it establishes that she is in a neighbourhood, it does this with a pan. You also get a feeling of where abouts she lives, what it is like. The house shown in this shot is very traditional looking. It is unconventional in that it then carrys on the pan to literally follow her as she walks.

 Close-ups of key aspects, just like in our opening

 Long shots

When creating our opening we had alot of inspiration from the short film 'Dear Claire; From Sonny' our inspiration is shown through the use of close ups and the travel aspect of the opening. Both our opening and the short film set a very clear tone, the sad side of love. However we developed the idea and made it our own through showing both the girl and the boys perspective. Being a short film, 'Dear Claire; From Sonny' is extremely artistic, we wanted to also show this through our opening and we do so through our focus to fade shots and close-ups on key aspects.