Evaluation

Q1) In what ways does media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The editing that was used was very steady, the length of our shots were quite short as we wanted to show the development of tension that was happening in each shot. Also we used one transition which was a fade from the girl (camilla) to the police officer, this showed how relaxed camilla was and how anxious i was. The program we used to edit was Final Cut Pro, each of our shots were the maximum of 5 seconds, the shot is slow paced because thats when we see camilla face staring right at the camera. Most of our shots were dragged too, so had to cut a lot of it down because we didnt want to loose the audience interest also we didnt want it to be boring.

We made sure that the soundtrack was mellow and serine at the beginning of the film so that to the audience it would look like nothing bad has happened, as the sound went on it got harder, deeper and the sound increased to the end because we wanted to give it a dangerous sort of sound because at that point camilla'a face is shown and she has a stern look. The program we used was soundtrack pro, We didn’t have any dialogue because we wanted our soundtrack to show the anticipation in our film, we used sound effects to emphasize certain things, for instance footstep effects are used to show that camilla is wearing heels and the penny effect is used to show that the ring has slipped off camilla's hand.

We used a range of camera shots to show different key moments, for example theres a close of me (Police Officer) were im looking very stressed out and anxious this is a key moment because to the audience they can see that i'm very determined to find this girl, it being shot in a close up makes it more effective. We used a birds eye view shot to show the edvidence that are on the table and theres medium shots used aswell.

We shot our film at london fields trainstation and a office at college. I (Police woman) was dressed in a white shirt, a gold black red stripy tie and black trousers. I wanted to make sure i looked serious with how i was dressed. The other charcter (Camilla) was dressed in heels, leggins, a vest top and a cardigan the colour of her clothing was all black, we wanted to give off a deathly sense.The props we used was a cigarette, telephone, ring and small plastic wallets.

The credits were made on LiveType. In our film we included title labels like directed by, written by, music composed by, starring and edited by these are credits that would be used in a real film.
We didn't particulary get any influences for our titles, we just went with what would suit the film.

We wanted our opening scene to be build up suspense while it went on, in the first couple of seconds of the opening scene it doesnt look suspenseful straight away until we hear the density of the soundtranck and the anxiety of the police woman. I think we did a good job building up the tension in our film, everything went well as planned.

Our film can be compared to the soundtrack of 'Sherlock Holmes' because there is upbeat orchestral music, even though our soundtrack isnt really orchestral it has an increase of sound.