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.