EVALUATION QUESTION 1

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

Here is one way of presenting your explanation:

Evaluating how far the production reflects / challenges genre conventions

Remember that you have 3 products, so you will deconstruct / critically evaluate each separately. 

1.Start with the short film. Draw on the research into short film codes and conventions, linking very explicitly your research and your outcome. Use, for example, a presentational tool that places two images side by side (professional product and your version). Integrate theory. Give a large number of comparisons / contrasts covering, for instance,

• production company logo
• film title
• credits
• establishing shot
• the narrative: characters / casting choices
• the narrative: plot 
• the narrative: mise-en-scene / set
• sound track / music
• edits (several examples)
• the twist / reveal

Integrate theoretical frameworks where appropriate, such as Levi-Strauss (binary opposites), Todorov (equilibrium / disequilibrium), Barthes (visual codes, the language of signs), Propp (character types).

Your film poster

• use your research into film poster codes and conventions

Your radio trailer:

• refer here to our class research into codes and conventions