Evaluation 1

In what ways does the media product use, develop or 

challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Hit and Miss develops many conventions of real media. We used Final Cut Express to edit together to ensure continuity and an correct flow. We also ensured that 180 degree line rule was kept to ensure that the audience knew that the scene was real and made sense. As our movie continues to run with continuity the audience suspense and reality feels more realistic. This enabled us to maintain conventions of continuity by using those methods.

This is an example of match on action. My hand reaches for key and in next shot the hand follows to lean over steering wheel.



Here we can see that in this movie the 180 rule was broken. This is something we tried not to do.














Another thing we did as to use editing technology to enhance the atmospheric as well as adding visual effects to make are film look more like conventional and typical movie.

This Final Cut and how we used this to edit our film. Its features allowed me to edit the continuity and create a lot more professional finished film.



The content of our film is really stereotypically conventional of a urban crime thriller. The movie is filmed in alleys and we have two male actors. This is very stereotypical of crime films and we continued to carry on the same conventions as we though it will be easier to get the reality image to audience if we did so.

Our movie didn't subvert the audience expectations of they expected to see in a crime movie.

 



We used swearing and arguing as a pastiche to many crime movies including The Town. We used arguing as a finish to a movie and a way for them to fail. It is a pastiche as we got a direct idea from one movie and didn't make it into parody. We used this technique of arguing in our film as The Town was successful and in my option it was due to the what happened after the robbery.



Another pastiche we did was time-lapse from Breaking bad. Breaking bad is a tv series not a film however, it still uses time lapses between scenes to show passage of time or change of location.
We used timelapse to show passage of time and to show that we can operate a camera and edit to a professional level.

 

 

 

I think an audience pleasure our film attempts by providing entertainment. The audience can find escapism in our movie as it provides entertainment and exciting experience.
Richard Dyer theory of entertainment and utopia really suits our film.He believes there are certain utopian sensibilities in films that allows an audience to lose themselves in the film. I think the sensibilities that comply with our film are energy because our film is fast paced and has action, and intensity because our film contains high highs when the robbers pull off a robbery and not get caught and low lows when the rookie killing his partner.