Evaluation Question 1

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

Title of film
Our film title is 'Renegade' which means 'a person who deserts a party or cause for another.' 

This title is a development of the usual conventions of the genre as other films of the same genre as our tend to use dramatic bold one word titles as it makes it stand out and easy to remember.

Examples of this are Salt and Taken.

Titles - Font and Style
our titles we did in a green typewriter font. 

As our storyline is a about a group of spys stealing some inportant goverment information in the form of a memory card we decided to do our front in this style as it looks similar to computer coding which links well to this idea of computerised information.

This front type i think is a development of crime films as they often use front that relate to the storyline of the film as it builds up an expected in the audience as to what the film involves. A good example of another crime film that does this is In time. In the opening of In time the titles appear in a green code like front with some of the leters in the word as couting down number to link to the storyline of people time running out.

Location/ Setting  

Our location and setting is also a development of crime film genres as most spy film genres involve the break in of an important place such as in the Mission Impossible franchise, everyone film from that franchise has a break in scene like the famous one from the first film when Tom Cruise is hanging from the ceiling and in the third when they break into a large building to steal 'the Rabbits Foot'.

Our film does go against it as well however as the places of importance that are usually broken into are big organisation buildings where as our is a high importance persons house.










Costume / Props 


Our costumes and props are deffinately a development of spy crime films as alot of crime films involve illegeal night activity and so they often wear black to blend in with the dark surroundings. a good example of this is in mission impossible 3 when they go to rescue a fellow agent from being held hostage. This take place at night and so they are wearing black clothing.   

Wgere the main characters are females as well they are often inslightly sexier clothing to show off their femininity and so as we are wanted to reach a female audience and most of our characters are females we decided to have slim fitting clothing and heals.

Lighting

The light was easy to do in the studio however on location shooting it was alot more difficult and we needed to use the lights from the studio and car lights in order for the scene to be lit efficiently. We didn't want so much light as we wanted the house to appear dark and empty and so we used reflecters and torches as well in places where too much light would ruin the atmosphere of the film.

Characterisation

We wanted to have our characters as a gang of mainly female rebelious proffesional spys.  Not much characterisation was actually needed as our scene did not invlive any dialogue and so we tries to acheive this appearance by their costume and figure and movement. Tried to make them appear rebellious by having them act really calm care free about thier actions, as if they aren't even bothered about what the dangers that they are facing, this also makes them appear really strong and capable which was another positive character feature that suits the aim for them to appear proffesional.

In this clip the two at the front are simply restingon the bonet with the one on the right smoking a cigarette, which shows their relaxed and care free nature.

Camera Angles

We experimented with camera angles to try and create the right mood and atmophere to the audience. For example when they reach the house we wanted to make the house appear tall and dominant so that when they over came breaking init seemed like more of an acheivement therefore we tried to portray this by the use of an extreme high angle shot looking down from the roof of the house with them looking up to the roof.

We also tried to potray the hecitc escape by using a low angle canted angle shot when the car pull way from the curb. This makes the picture slant and move so that the audience feels more involved in the action and with it being a low angle shot it also suggest dominance and power of the characters driving away which they now are as they found the chip that they where looking for.

Editing transitions/ Visual effects

We only really used simple cuts in our editing transitions as we wanted it to look fast and choppy to reflect the haste if the situation. We did use visual effects however when it came to the credits as we wanted them encourporated into the scene and so we had to edit them into the shot and make them appear and dissappear with the movement of the charaters.

Here we had the title dissappear as rachel walked across the screen.

Here we had the titles appear out from behind the books and so we had to edit it so that it was slowly revealed as they moved the book.

Genre  


The genre of our film is deffinatley a development of other spy crime films it involves the break in to an important place of authority and many other conventions of crime films such as costume, props and lighting. However we did challenge the genre as well by the care free nature of our spys as most spy films have the characters figure and movement appear alot more aggressive to show their power and authority.