Evaluation: Question 1

AS Media Studies Foundation Production Evaluation

Question 1: in what way does your media product use, develop or challenge form and conventions of real media product?

Example and description	Explanation how it uses/ develops/ challenges forms and conventions
Title of film	Our film is called “It Never Happened” this is because it is a quote from the film when the character texts this to another character in the film it is a key moment because the character is telling the other one to keep the murder a secret which makes it more thrilling. An example of films where there are quotes as the title are “I Know what  you did last summer”
Setting/location	The location for the main section of the film opening is set in the woods however there are indoor scenes and there is one part where the characters are running over a bridge and they run past a cctv sign which hints at what might happen later on. An example of a film where people are murdered in the woods is the film Severance and Cabin in the woods.
Camerawork and editing	Our camerawork and editing in  the opening scene follows convention because it starts of slow as it slowly pans away from a dead body however it then quickly cut to the culprits running away which uses very fast editing such as jump cuts.
costume	The costumes featured in our opening scene are typical working class teenager clothes. Billy is wearing some old chinos and a n old hoody and Matt is wearing some old jeans and a hoody. A good example of a film where they dree similar to how the characters in our film opening dress is in Kidulthood.the murder wepon we use however is not conventional e.g. a gun or a knife it a broken road sign this was to show that they are not trained profesional killers and it shows that they did not go out peurposely to kill someone but it just happened,
Genre	The genre of our film is a crime drama/thriller and it revolves around the murder of this boy. The film is not  from the police officers point of veiw trying to solve the murder instead it focuses on the two murderers and what they go through and how they cover up the murder.