2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challengeforms and conventions of real media products?
3. Media conventions that were used in our film: Sound and Music – Popular Song, voice over. Editing – Tailored editing to the music. Setting, mise-en-scene – Interior and exterior shots, British settings. Characterisation – Conventional characters for rom-com. Narrative structure – Introduction of Characters with Voice over and title cards. Story into montage. Advertisement – Labels such as apple Mac, Extra gum & Sony Ericson. Casting – Good looking British actors.
4. Media conventions that we developed in our film: Mise-en-scene – We took that playing in the park convention that little bit further. Internet – Modern aspects compared to “You’ve got mail”. Use of dating sites.
5. Media conventions that we challenge in our film: Feminist and un-feminist juxtaposition – Lucy is independent but she “wants love”, very stereotypical. Safety on the internet – The message our film sends
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7. Develop - We developed the colour scheme, used a British setting, outdoors, green’s browns and yellows used a lot.
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9. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
10. Mise-en-scene – The same use of mise-en-scene in the poster and the film link them together nicely keeping continuity. However the change of scenery on the magazine cover is an effective and refreshing change for the audience to see the characters in a new light. Same title used anchors each text. Valentine theme continued throughout the texts.
16. How did you use media technologies in the research, planning, construction, and evaluation stages?
17. Media technologies we used in the research: Internet: Google, YouTube, BlogSpot, traileraddict, Empire.com, film websites. Magazines: Empire, Media magazine, Q.
18. Media technologies we used in the planning. Internet – BlogSpot Scanner – Story Board Serif page plus – Templates
19. Media technologies we used in construction Film: Video camera. Apple Mac: imovie, Garage band. Poster: Pc: Serif page plus, Photoshop Camera Magazine: Pc: Serif page plus
20. Media technologies we used in evaluation: Power point. Microphone: podcast. BlogSpot. This is us using media technologies! -The apple Mac photo booth. - Mobile phones.
