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

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

2. My use of media
• My film is based on a sequence of bank robberies where the female
character double crosses her team(s) multiple time but then gets
caught up in the wrong job and get caught in her act. This piece of
media is based around the idea of a thriller genre linking it to many
other uses of media which my group and I thought of in the pre-
production of our filming. My thriller is called ‘The Latenter’ which
means someone who is hiding something or is covering something
up. This was done in another language so that the audience would
be intrigued into the meaning of our title.

3. Conventions used in my
media piece
• First of all, there were many different conventions used in my film,
for example, there are counter-types about the female character as
she is the one who walks away with all of the money and kills the
male character. There is also a stereotype about how the male
character would be the one who would be getting angry.

4. Uses of media my group and I
are comparing our production to.
• Film wise we thought of:
• the opening of The Dark Knight
• The Italian Job
• Colombiana
• In TV we looked at:
• Justified
• Buffy The Vampire Slayer
• When we looked through video games we
found:
• Payday 2
• Battlefield Hardline

5. What is Colombiana about?
• Colombiana is a French action movie
which is based on a female character
who witnesses her parents death and
is trying to get her revenge. She is
seen as a ‘Bad-Ass’ assassin who is
lethal and uses every means in her
disposal to for fill her vengeance. This
film seems to have done very well
with the budget being around
£24,000,000 and making a box office
of around £42,000,000, giving them a
sufficient profit of £18,000,000,
sufficient enough that they are looking
into a sequel. The trailer to the film is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCx
PLlFWdFo

6. What is Payday 2 about?
• Payday 2 is a first-person
shooter video game about a
gang of thirteen members and
the player is one of the
thirteen in the gang and goes
on a bank heist alone, with a
friend (Co-op) or with the
computer (AI). These games
(Payday 1 + 2) are both mainly
about the idea of a bank heist.

7. Similarities with Colombiana and
Payday 2 to my media product
• In this shot we can see that the female character
goes against the stereotype that females
wouldn't be the one who would be holding the
gun and how they would be innocent and not as
powerful as them male character. We can see
that the camera is looking up at the female
character showing that she is dominant and
powerful in the scene.
• This shot is from the video-game “Payday
2” gameplay and is similar to my media
product as it shows that money is the
centre of all greed and power as
everyone seems to want it for
themselves. In both of these shots money
is in the centre which means that both
uses of media have a similar idea about
it.
• This shot is also from the video-game “Payday 2”
gameplay and it shows that the character is wearing a
mask to hide his face making his character mysterious
and wanting the audience (players) to find out what he
looks like and what he is hiding. This is similar to the
media use in my product as in mine the characters are
both wearing balaclavas making the audience feel as
if they are hiding something (especially the female
character hiding her gender until the end of the
opening sequence).

8. What is The Dark Knight
about?
• The Dark Knight is a sequel to
the Batman trilogy. This is the
second of the three and is
about Batman, James Cordon
and Harvey Dent foreign an
alliance to defend and fight the
crime in Gotham city and the
Joker. The Batman was
training throughout the first of
the three films and turned into
Batman near the end. This film
is predominantly about the
Joker, Heath Ledger, and the
relationship that Batman and
him share.

9. Similarities to the opening
sequence in The Dark Knight
• In this shot, from The Dark Knight, we
can see one of the characters take all of
the money for themselves showing the
greed and the influence money has on
the characters. This is a similarity to my
opening sequence as the idea of money
causes both the characters to become
selfish and ravenous for all of the money.
• This shot, from The Dark Knight, shows a
similarity between my media product and
this sequence. As in this shot we see the
greed that the money is causing just like
in my opening media piece. We also look
up at the character holding the gun, in
both shots, to show the power each of
them have.
• In this shot we can see that we are looking
up at the mysterious character who is
wearing a mask to cover up his/her face.
This is similar to my shot on the right as in
my shot there the audience is also looking
up at the character wondering about their
mentality and their reason of their
importance to the sequence.