Evaluation Post 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our group's film, 'What Happened to Peter Smith?', is a crime-mystery drama, about the titular teenager who goes missing but is found dead soon after. It follows the ensuing investigation by a weary detective into the five other teenage suspects who were with him when he was last seen, and who each have their own unique relationships with the deceased and each other. We took into account form, genre, narrative structure, and style during the construction process of our film opening.

Form:
An emaze slideshow describing the form of film openings, including ours.

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The opening of 'The Usual Suspects,' excluding the titles, as extra content for the 'Form' webtool above.


Genre:
A Prezi slideshow about the crime and mystery drama genre, the genre of our film.

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Narrative Structure:
A Google Slides slideshow on narrative structure, and how it is relevant to our film.

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Style:
A coggle mindmap that describes the style of our opening, with examples from other films.

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A GIF showing how we created a smooth flow between character transitions.

A GIF demonstrating how we used camera movements to mirror the transitions and conversations between characters.

A GIF of one example of how we used framing for effect.

As you can hopefully see from these presentations of different aspects of the construction of our media product, we have used, developed, and even challenged various forms and conventions of real media products and their construction. This includes creating a film opening with typical and expected features, adhering to the genre's conventions, building a narrative with a tried-and-tested structure, and developing our own style to both fit in with yet stand out from the crowd.