New logo

Our new logo to replace the old one. We did this because of the secret production we thought wasn't up to scratch and didn't work with the quality of the rest of the film.

EVALUATION - Question 1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

(we have had problems in finding films within the same genre so the Sherlock BBC series is used purely for demonstration purposes). Conventions of our genre, detective/crime:

1. Murder
2. Police
3. Chalk out line of dead body.
4. Tense music/suspense
5. Night scenes 

Conventions we have used in our film that are in others,

we tried to integrate the titles to the film.

we also filmed the scenes at night to keep to most conventions.

we also kept enigma all the way through the 2 minuets.

The editing;
The editing contain fast cuts and tense atmospheric music.
in our film we have added faster cuts when the sniper is seen and tense music to create the correct suspense.

sound;

In Sherlock (BBC)

In our film we used tense music to create suspense. So we used this convention.

mise -en-scene;
C:  Long shady clothing, made so not much is revealed about some characters to create enigma.
L: Dark night lighting to reveal as little as possible.
A: The actors do not speak much so we didn't have any mishaps with wording. The only dialogue was the (chief of police) at the beginning to tell the viewer what has happened so far.
M: No make up to keep as much gritty feel as possible.
P: We used a sniper as a main prop so the genre of action is confirmed within the first two minuets.
S: The setting is a dark back ally with little lighting and a dark warehouse. this is to give the viewer a feeling of becoming tense.

props; 

-sniper
In Shooter

In our film:

Character:
the only main character seen in our 2 minuets is the antagonist (the sniper)

costumes:
-Long coats;
In Sherlock (BBC)

 In our film long coats were used so we used this convention 

locations:
streets night:
Sherlock (BBC)

In our film we also used night/street scenes.

camera shots fast tempo in places in the TV series Sherlock (BBC)

In our film we also added fast cuts when the action was introduced.

feedback from the rest of the class

we had feedback of our film so far and we noted down what needed to be improved.

• Too many Transitions (this is making the whole shot fade in and out when not wanted).
• Cut shots (it was said that some shots were too long and needed to be cut so it made more sense).
• Sound clean up (the sound in some places needed cleaning up E.G background noise and speech).

To address these issues we have changed some transitions and made a new sequence of cut up shots so it makes sense. we are also needing to do some detailed sound editing to make it sound as clear as it is needed to be.

Problems

When we finished filming and have roughly edited the film we have realised we do not fill the 2 minuets required. To stop this I have had an idea of there being a phone call to the police of a panicked woman reporting shootings. This should then cover the time required.

filming the night scenes

setting up the lighting

This is us filming the scene where the press scene fades to an outdoor shot of a TV in a window showing the news when a man walks by and (6 hours later) follows behind him into the night scene in the street.