This is my evaluation for my teaser trailer.

1. A2 Evaluation ‘H4CK3R5’
In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
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2. We chose this shot as we wanted to clearly
establish the storyline by using dialogue
between the two main characters. A long
shot is used here to show the clothing the
characters are wearing are basic college
clothes. As a result they are represented to
us as relatable characters as our target
audience are around the same age. Our film
follows conventions here as the two
students are clothed in typical teenage
clothes and placed in a college scene.
In this shot we chose to use coding and
moving letters in the background of our
titles. We achieved this by using live
type which made it possible to
effectively represent our film, as having
technical elements easily established
our genre. Clearly the text, “HOW FAR
WOULD YOU GO FOR YOUR FAMILY?”
stands out to the audience as an
important element in the storyline of
the film, as we are made aware that
one of the characters’ fathers is in great
danger by a mysterious silhouette with
a dark voice.

3. In this shot we chose to alter the colour into
black and white, however chose to leave the
“decline” button on the phone in red. This is
because we wanted to portray the crime
element of our genre, as black and white are
colors used together to create mystery and
suspense for an audience. The red is used to
reflect the danger the phone holds for the
characters, which is established by the voice over
which makes it clearer who is behind the
threatening phone call. Here we follow
conventions of the crime aspect of our genre as
we are trying to make the audience anticipate
what is going to happen next.
In this close-up shot we used a static
television as part of a short montage
sequence in our teaser trailer as we wanted
to use a variety of random shots to represent
our intertexuality used with the matrix. We
wanted to represent this aspect as the static
hides us from the truth and what we want to
see. The music is also built up here for the
sequence as it shows a rise in the action and
an increase of danger for the characters and
their computer hacking. Here we follow
conventions of a crime-thriller as we wanted
to make the audience feel apprehensive of
the coming future of the film.

4. This medium-two shot of the two main
characters is used to show that the teenagers
are capable of hacking into a system. The
coding, we created by the use of live type,
makes it possible for two shots to be combined
into one, as we can see what the characters are
looking at in a point-of-view shot, as well as
where they are and what they are doing from
the front. Here we follow conventions of our
genre as the mise-en-scene we chose specific
camera positions and clothing to reflect this.
This over-the-shoulder shot of the character
“Peter” is used to display the technical
intelligence he has with hacking. We used mise-en-
scene aspects here such as placing our
character in a bedroom scene to show that he is
a stereotypical teenager with an unusual talent
for hacking. The laptop placed in the center of
the screen shows the significance it has in the
film and is made clear that this is the main focus
of our film. The dark and mystified colors here
are used alongside with the image of the hands
to reflect the hidden context that the film
portrays.

5. This is an over-the-shoulder shot of the two main
characters computer hacking in an office
environment, we chose to use this shot because at
this point it reflects how they are a team, working
together to a certain motive, which is to save her
dad. We then placed a green coding above the shot
to show how the technical elements of our film. This
effectively represents our genre and follows
conventions as our intertextuality of the matrix,
provides the danger element to our film.
In this scene we chose to use a long-shot
to establish the surroundings of the girl
character and to show why she is so
alarmed and in desperate need to save
her father. The messy room is used to
show the threatening aspect of the film
because we can tell that there is a
dangerous person who wants revenge on
her father. The voice over “I want them
dead or alive” is used alongside this scene
to converge the different conventions of a
crime-thriller, which ultimately draws the
audience in.

6. Our end titles follow conventions of a crime-thriller genre as the green and
black colors create mystery and suspense for the audience and draw them in
into wanting to watch and find out more of what happens in the film. We
chose to use the coding moving down, behind the transparent title using final
cut pro, as we wanted to further entice the technicality we needed to use in
order use conventions to represent our genre.