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

G.O.O.D first produced a story board so it made it easier to know what we were going to film as all film's in the industry do. Our first draft that consisted of shots from London and Charlie's house, were all the difficult shots we wanted to get out of the way. We wanted feedback, so we showed the small clip to the class and our teachers in order to express their views upon our starting point. The feed back that was recognized most was the opacity of the film, it need to be brighter in the dark area's, the sound quality was very muffled and hard to understand and some of shots were to long. The mise-en-scene in particular was perfect for the convention purposes as G.O.O.D wanted it to be a gritty action London film.

Our first recognized mistake as stated earlier was the lengths of the shots. which is unconventional for a film trailer as they try to squeeze as much as possible. Our teacher noticed that It seemed we were producing a movie more than a trailer and we should no get carried away. The conventional genre adaption was there in terms of costume and the story but the main focus was making every shot snappy and quick. 

We looked again into real media products such as the expendables, transporter (Video above) and mission impossible. Here you see the shots are quick and sharp with a few long enough shots which inspired us with new ideas by examining new codes and conventions of the action film trailer. The transporter 3 trailer shows the audience what needs to be shown in order for the audience to want to watch the full length film it in the cinema, which was our aim from the start. 

In the Final trailer all the missing components and issues, picked up from the audience were all taken into consideration and had been thought through carefully in order for our genre to be consistent throughout and keep focus on our codes and conventions of a real action trailer. The opacity and length of the trailer had been changed so it was clearer to watch and the shots were consistently changing every 3-6 seconds apart form the odd few build up shots. The narrative was a lot more clear for the audience to understand the concept of the trailer. The fact that the shots kept changing with different locations and mise-en-scene helped drive that professional consistency to a real action convention of a film trailer. 

Our final Video had many locations and and the mise-en-scene i feel was perfect for each shot and was conventional to the genre. Unlike music videos where they have location of either 5 different places, a film trailer has to be in many different locations, if not it defeats the purpose of a conventional film trailer. Our film trailer looked really realistic and showed similarities to real media film trailers as shown below. There was a lot of fight scenes now, different effects in the film (Frank zip lining down the shard) and characters in the film performed really well to the characters we created. 

In recognition i wanted my ancillary tasks to show that it was conventional of the genre and product. I used Adobe Photoshop to create a front cover for a magazine which is in existing media products. The layout of the magazine (shown below) has the standard levels of an existing magazine and therefore conventional to it genre. Due to its design and the genre style of the codes and conventions of a magazine, such as the color choice, consistent font and image choice it fits alongside these 'real media products' thoroughly.   

Here are a few real media products that helped me with my initial idea (shown above) 

Front Cover Of Empire Magazine as you can see i have adapted dome ideas from this real media product  into my magazine.

Another Real Media product which i incorporated into my magazine is the bottom section where it has the '32 page' i put bullets firing across and put images of the film between them. 

Another Empire magazine; and the color's are similar to my magazine. Also the iron man logo is in the middle like my pelican hunter logo.