Evaluation Question 1 - Prepration

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


Use - where you take a convention and you use it in the same way as it is used in the same way as the practitioner of the genre, e.g. using untrained actors (people with little/no dramatic experience), as some used untrained actors (like Fish Tank)

Develop - using low-key lighting - going for a more thriller-esque lighting effect (just an example)

Challenge - Going against the conventions of naturalism challenge naturalistic performances altogether - using untrained actors to gain a level of naturalism, unlike using more theatrical trained actors - makes a point.
E.g. having my lighting evenly lit throughout the film in the outside setting - what genre is this representing? Does it challenge your genre of social realism?



Forms - Structure of the film (beginning - middle - end), shape of the film (wide shots - cramped shots, long takes - short takes), style (the elements that present its style to the audience - e.g. what the lighting represents) - what does Nil by Mouth represent by lighting (example)?
Example from my film: Shape of my film (wide shots - cramped shots): wide shots of setting, suddenly leads to cramped shots of my character's face)
How does the element of form manifests itself? ^
How it links to a professional equivalent: "Stripes" (wide shots of apartment and man - suddenly leads to cramped shots (close-ups) of two men, one being threatened) - does this use, develop or challenge this form? -
In my opinion, I am developing this practice, as the action in my film is at a slower pace, with less action/violence - mine is more peaceful (a man filming a woman (my film), compared to a man threatening another man (Stripes))

Conventions - anything the audience expects in the way of narrative, story, character, events, all connected to the genre.

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