Evaluation Task 1 : In what ways does your media product use,develop or challange forms conventions of real media products?

The media product that we wanted to produce was aiming to adapt a professional status. It is quite unreachable in our working experience level right now because we do not have much experience and it was our first real shoot we ever did. Therefore it was clear that our first film experience will not look like Hollywood block basters. But never the less we were aiming for something that can be taken more seriously and professional. Films like ‘I am legend’ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da0g7zui0S4) were a good inspiration source for us but even though we looked at some similar film pieces; we tried to create something very unique and new.  In general it is not easy to make up something that is completely new because there are too many ideas that are similar and already on the market.

Differently like in some opening scenes of proper movies, we decided not to have an animated opening trailer, which introduces all the actors and contributors. Because of our simple structured story with just one main actor we do not need to introduce a whole cast in the beginning because that would destroy the illusion of the film and would take away the plot. In our case it is better not to let the audience know what is going to happen and leave them in the belief that there is really just one actor and no one else.  It takes away the excitement and curiosity. Some films even show their actors in the beginning and have a short sequence or a cartoon of them in the beginning, but because we only have one actor we wanted to let the audience find out who she is. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcRr-Fb5xQo) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYHw_h1YdkA&feature=related)

The only challenge that we had with our credits on the opening was where to place it and in which colour tone and which writing style. It is important to make the clear to see and readable but at the same time not distracting for the audience because their main attention should be happening on the happening and not on the cooperators.