Evaluation Activity 1

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

The Title of The Film

Film Title

We titled our film 'The Transition' the reason for this may involve the plot of our full film as transition can be defined as the act of change, whether it being state or location, and so could underline the emphasis on the progression of time as if the film was going to be continued then the next part of the film may be a prologue, to explain the opening scene as it jumps straight into the plot, dialogue, and action, where a prologue may go back in time to explain what the audience just saw.

The Title sequence is developed from the conventions of existing opening sequenses from other films, using a brief introduction before the main title. before the introduction was shown we introduced the names of the actors 

Title Font and Style

Title Sequence

The title of our film production is in white block capitals on a back background and the contrast of colours will enable the title to stand out. the title sequence starts in a similar way, with the actors names fading in floating slowly accross the screen in white writing againt a black background, also on the start of the film we have used the film 4 opening so it shows what producing company we would use. The font shows contrast and the font is similar to the Godfather so our audience can recognise immediately what our film will be.




Story and how the opening sets it up

The opening of our film is typical, as it immediately shows the genre and shows that it is in urban Britain. Our opening also causes questions to be asked which will make the audience question what will happen which will make them watch on. For example, Luke is killed and the Boss is killed. The boss also recognises his killer so it makes the audience want to see how he knew her and the past they share.

Costumes and props



The Boss' Costume

The costumes of Luke and the Boss build tension as they are wearing suits so the audience immediately want to know what kind of business they are in, be it good or evil. From our genre our audience can relate as they may be able to tell that the business they do is evil and possibly illegal as the Boss says that they are in a war so it may raise the suspicion that their are two rivals vying for control over something.

Luke's Costume

As for the female assassin, her clothes look practical and streamlined. Also all of it is dark so it gives connotation of danger and evil. She also drives a motorcycle which is seen as a 'cool' way to get about and the motorcycle may show they live on the edge or dangerous. Also the fact she is wearing a helmet shows she is masked and wants to hide her identity. It also shows she is independent as  its just her on the motorbike.

Finally as the female assassin gets off the bike the audience can see she is wielding a gun which also has connotations that she will do something illegal or dangerous such as murder.

Character Costume

How Characters are Introduced

In the opening, the boss is first introduced with the voiceover and the audience come in the conversation in the middle of the phone call. From this you can see that there is a employer, employee relationship as the boss orders the employee what to do. Also whilst this is going on you are introduced to a shady character on the motorbike which makes the audience think who is this person. She then takes off her helmet and she walks into an office building and shoots the boss which shows the audience she is an assassin.

Setting/Location

we used a number of different locations in the process of creating our media film, the office scene was filmed in school, and more specifically in our headmasters office, which we were very great-full he let us use it we used this location because it was ideal for the purpose of our film, as to create an office feel as well as to represent the office as being dark and also showing the audience this is the base for the boss and the business he gets up to. Also the boss sitting in their shows the audience that he is powerful as he has his own room.

Special effects

In our production we do not use any special effects, this is because there was no need for us to use special effects as that will not be found very often in our specific genre. But, we do use non-diegetic sounds such as the  phone ringing when it is on the floor. Also we added in sound for when the female assassin shoots the boss and there are gunshots when the title screen comes up which suggests to the audience that the boss has been killed.

Genre and how the opening suggests it

The opening shows the genre we are trying to achieve as the costumes show the affluence of the characters. Moreover, in British gangster films, the characters are shown in suits for example, in Snatch, Turkish wears a suit throughout the whole narrative. Furthermore, it is shown as the boss swears and orders Luke what to do, once again in Snatch the boss uses swear words and is threatening and imperative and commanding to show his position of power.

Camerawork and editing

camerawork would detail the methods in which we used our camera as well as how we utalised the features of the camera. during thed process of creating our media film we used camerawork, whether it was the use of the tripod to ensure that the camera remained still while we filmed to ensure a better quality, the tripod also enabled us to set different angles for the camera as well as to pan shots while keeping the camera steady which again enabled better quality.


Editing the footage enabled us to piece together the footage and to finally complete our task and produce a film. Editing provided us with the basis of manipulating the text, whether it was to cut pieces of the footage seperatig what we needed and what we did not need, Editing also enabled us to manipulate the sound as well as add sound of our own, we could change the volume of the footage which would better enable the audience to hear dialogue or to change the volume so that the dialogue does not fluctuate in volume. The Editing programe we used was iMovie HD.