Evaluation Question 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
For this question I will be comparing my film of 'Bleeding In Love' with the movie ' The Roommate'.
- Indents and titles
- Sound
- Genre
- Camerawork
- Editing
This is very important when it comes to a film as this is always the first thing that comes up.
Order of titles for 'The Roommate' and 'Bleeding In Love'
Order of titles for 'The Roommate' and 'Bleeding In Love'
- Distributor title - Quote at the beggining
- Production company - Distributor title
- Film title - Production company
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Stars - Film title
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Crew - Stars
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Director - Crew
http://vimeo.com/89492013 - Bleeding In Love
http://www.youtube.com/feature=player_embedded -The Roommate
- Indents and titles
- Sound
- Genre
- Camerawork
- Editing
In 'Bleeding In Love' the sound we used was from a website called CreativeCommons where music can be downloaded without it being copyrighted. The sound we chose was called 'Psychopath', which was convenient as it set the mood of the whole opening scene. the volume for the sound varied going from high to low this was because in some scenes the sound needed to be lowered so that the audience could concentrate on what was happening rather than focusing on the sound.
- Indents and titles
- Sound
- Genre
- Camerawork
- Editing
GENRE
In our own film the main genre was horror and our sub genres were thriller and drama. This was the same genres for 'The Roommate'.
Overall, we tried to make our film similar but with also some differences as we wanted to stand out from the normal storyline that tends to happen.
Forms & Conventions
- Indents and titles
- Sound
- Genre
- Camerawork
- Editing
- Indents and titles
- Sound
- Genre
- Camerawork
- Editing
CAMERAWOrk
Different camera shots have a great effect on how the movie is watched by the audience and it's a way of representing certain things.
For example, in 'Bleeding In Love' at one point we show a POV shot which makes the audience understand what Crystal is seeing and her feelings. Firstly we focus the camera on her with a medium shot and then we focus on her surroundings but the continuity of the the shots shows as if its her POV. We also show a variety of shots such as long medium and close shots to either show the setting or to focus on an object. In 'The Roommate' we can also see a variety of shots but there are a number of extreme long shots which show us the city where the filming is taking place.
There's also shot where the camera is looking upwards which shows a great view. 
PROPS
Many different types of props where used such as costumes, pills, knifes and matches. All of these props represented the main character in a way as they were all over her bed which meant she had something to do with them. Where as , in 'The Roommate' there isn't really a main prop they just have normal props needed ion a horror/thriller movie. One proper that both these scenes have is that a knife is used.
- Indents and titles
- Sound
- Genre
- Camerawork
- Editing
EDITING
In any movie editing is very vital as it plays a great role and has a major effect.
In my own scene the editing we used was quite similar to the one in 'The Roommate'. For example, in my scene we start of by setting the scene which is in college where as, in 'The Roommate' they also show the setting and slowly turn there focus into the setting of the bedroom. The editing we used was changing the effect of the image when Crystal had her illusions but in bot openings we can see that continuity occurs in both.
