Evaluation question 1.

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

The first four shots show how the titles come onto the screen. They are over a still shot of the maloe lead character asleep, and appear on screen one by one. I choose different fonts for the words to show that the main two characters are different from each other on the surface, and I usded the contarsting colours of pink and blue to show that the films lead charcters are a girl and a boy, and the film is centered around the stor of the two of them together. The fourth image is of the opening shot. I broke the conventions a little by having the film go straight into dialogue, and I chose to do this so that the audience are immetiatley engaged in the story, and to add a quicker pace to the film.

The fifth image is of one of the main male characters on the phone, and the shot which introduced him. I used the setting on him being outside on the phone as contrast to the shot of Joel on the phone to him whilst in bed to show the contrast between them both. The sixth screen shot is Joel in bed, on the phone to Ryan, and I used quick cuts between the two locations in order to show their phone conversation.

The seventh shot is of the female characters in college, and using an education institution as a setting in a film aimed at teenagers is a typical convention which I followed, in order to establish the age of the characters. This shot is establishing the difference between the three female characters, Pearl (the geek), Megan (the bitch) and Nicola (Pearls best friend). I established the differences through what the chaarcters were wearing, for example Megan is wearing tight, skimpy clothing, compared to Pearl who is wearing an oversized cardigan and a loose fitting dress, and her accessories do not match. I dressed Nicola to highlight that she is the middle ground bewteen the two characters, and both her and Pearl are holding notepads, showing that they are good hardworking students, whereas Megan is not.

The final screenshot is of the getting ready scene. I used the setting of the male and female lead characters bedrooms. showing similarities bewteen the two characters, but they are doing different activities, illustrating the contrasts between them. Both of their rooms are bright, and they both have music posters visible in their rooms, showing that they have similar interests. The spilt screen was used to show that they are both equally involved in the story, and are both as important as each other.

I wanted my opening to fit quite well into the genre, so I used stereotypical settings such as college, and bedrooms. I also chose not to feature any adult characters, such as parents or teachers, to make the film all about the teenagers. I also included the usual characters, such as "The Geek", "The Bitch" and "The Popular boy", and choose the typical love triangle storyline.