1 FORMS & CONVENTIONS

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

My Film - 

Distributor - My group and I decided to utilise Verve due to their large portfolio of films that have been done by first time film makers as well as small independent films.

Production Company - Metropolitan Films

Opening shot/Establishing shot - In the opening scene of the policeman falsely accusing the teenagers of various crimes which they haven't done. This creates some mystery for the audience resulting in them wanting to keep watching.

Protagonists - The protagonist (main character) in our film opening is the policeman because we follow his recent life where his job is making him break down, and he feels guilty.

Two-shot - The two-shot is the over the shoulder shot where we see the policeman looking at both adolescents.

Shot-reverse-shot - There is a shot-reverse-shot so that we can see the reactions of the policeman and teenagers during the interview.

Tracking shot - We can see a tracking shot when we see one of the teenagers crossing the road.

Close up - We view this when the officer is typing on his computer.

Extreme close up - This is utilised when the police officer is writing in his folder during the interview with the teenagers.

Pan - We see a pan when we see the teenagers spray painting.

Credits - In the credits, we can see all of the roles that everyone had in the making of our crime-thriller film opening.

Title - After the teenager getting hit by the car, the credits appear which therefore creates some sort of enigma.

Suspense/Enigma - In our film, there is a lot of building in suspense right until the very end when the credits appear. This is considered as a key focus.

Roland Barthes - We researched roland baarthes and noticed that our film fit under the category of enigma.