Trailer FILM

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

In regards to our film, it is unmistakeable that we used a lot of real media products that relate to our film. The location of our film is the same as the location of many films that are associated with 0ur genre. We filmed in Thamesmead in the same flats that they film the TV drama series ‘Misfits’.

In regards to our film, it is unmistakeable that we used a lot of real media products that relate to our film. The location of our film is the same as the location of many films that are associated with 0ur genre. We filmed in Thamesmead in the same flats that they film the TV drama series ‘Misfits’. This setting was very suited to our film.

There is also something that is very common in these films which is the lighting, the lighting that is seen on these films is very dark and grey and occasionally the use sepia light.

Lighting

The way that shots are taken and the way the camera is positioned on certain characters is also something that we used that other films had used before. This scene of SKET shows the girls and we get to see them and how their character is. There is a wall dividing them, similar to the way in the film SKET they are divided into different scenes.

From the TV drama my murder we used very familiar scenes as they were both very similar in what message they were conveying. There were very similar shots in which we chose to incorporate into our film. The way in which characters are dressed and their setting is also very similar. A silmilar shot in our film is this.

In the film my murder the characters have an establishing shot that conveys they personality, what we did is we put our main character at the front to show the hierarchy in importance.

In the opening of the drama series ‘My Murder’ there is an opening of the film that says based on a true story, we decided to use this in our film. This allows viewers to already understand what kind of film this is. The audience would know straight away and know that our film was to be taken seriously. Many people will drawn to the trailer because of the fact that it says ‘based on a true story.

The location shot is something that is very vital to the film, it shows the rural setting and where our trailer is based. In the television drama my murder they use an establishing shot that shows the film whereabouts. We tried to make our setting as familiar as possible, what we did was go in the night, so that we could get the lights. This is a real piece that we incorporated into our film.

There are also many other similarities in other video's to our own. In the movie ‘SKET’ they used a company for our film also. We respected that the company may have copy rights so we sent and email, telling them that this was not copy right, and asking if we could please borrow their label for our coursework.

PERMISSION

In many ways our media product does somehow challenge the forms of real media products, because in many of the examples we used, they had males as there main stars. But we use an all female casting crew. However, we use more media products then we challenge, as there are much more similarities than there are differences. For examples, the settings and locations of all of these films have a similarity, they are all set in the same place, or they are set on rural areas that look very similar to our setting.