Friday, 23 April 2010

Evaluation question 1

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

Our whole title sequence follows the convention of creating a mystery as no one knows why the character is running until the end when the audience are introduced with a reflection of somebody else in the water. The title sequence was a suspense builder as the audience were unsure of what it was that was after the main character and what had happened before this.It ended with a cliff hanger which was very effective and chilling, again utitlising a commonly used convention used in the opening of thriller films. . During the sequence we had a long shot, this could be seen as someone watching our main character from a distance causing tension. We used slow motions in the scene to emphasise the characters need to escape, the fact the he would jump over things instead of simply walking around them showed that he was desperate to escape and was not in a state of mind of thinking clearly, also he desperately attempted to open the gate by kicking it open as he was in a hurry. The title 'On the run' speaks for itself as it is introduced right at the start and it follows up the next scene.

The music was upbeat and it provided pace. It started of slow as the tension was rising then it trailed of to a more upbeat style nearer the middle. The suspense builder was more during the end as the music went quieter.