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

6. Sound: In the Romance films that we looked at the non-diagetic sound was all quite peaceful and had an emotional feeling to it, so we thought to set the mood of our film we would want something that had emotion but also a bit depressing as our main theme was problems in relationships and something going wrong for the couple. The diagetic sound that we heard in the films were mainly the couple talking, and also some background sounds that fitted in with the romance genre so we chose a bit of both to go in ours. Locations: Some of the Romance films that we looked at were either located at a beach (Dear John and The Last Song), a park, house (My Sister’s Keeper), a boat (Titanic) or somewhere quite romantic for the couple (A Cinderella story). We thought as a group that the most appropriate place for ours to be located would be a park and we found a good place close to where we are

7. Costumes: In most of the Romance films that we watched but for example A Cinderella Story, all the clothes that the main characters wore were casual apart from when it was set in a restaurant and then all the clothes were quite smart. We wanted to portray our main character so we chose to place her in white and black clothes to show her innocence and purity but also a dark side to her. Camera Shots: In the Romance films that we watched for example Dear John there was a variety of camera shots but the main shot that was used was close up’s so that the audience could see the emotion on the actors faces so we used a variety of shots and we used a few close up’s when we felt it was necessary so that the audience could see the actors faces and it had the feeling on intimacy. Also with the use of the point of view shot the audience can see what the main characters can see and it feels like you have been placed into their shoes. Narration: In the main Romance films that we watched for example My Sister’s Keeper there was some background narration so that the audience knew more about the film, and we used background narration so that the background story was running at the same time as the memories and it made the audience feel more sympathy towards the main character, and whilst it was being played along side film clips the audience can piece together the memories.

8. Characters: In the romance films that we watched for example Titanic the main characters were a boy and a girl that were deeply in love until something goes horribly wrong for one of them. We chose to have a couple as our main characters and we had something go horribly wrong for the girl and it was up to the guy to choose whether he was going to stay or leave her and we did this so that the audience felt sympathy towards her. Props: In the romance films that we saw, there wasn’t many props used apart from things that you would expect with that genre for example a rose or an expensive ring or jewellery. We didn’t really want to use any props that took the main focus from the main characters, so we didn’t use any. Lighting: In the romance films that we watched for example A Cinderella Story it was all mostly natural lighting that was used apart from when it was in a dark place when some artificial lighting was used when they were both outside under the stand slow dancing, and because we set ours during the day we used high key natural lighting so there was no need to emphasise the characters. Make up: In the romance films that we saw, it was just the girl that wore the make up so we didn’t see any need to have the guy in any. We were portraying the girl as dying so she had natural make up on to show she was ill, when it was the memories fading away we tried to have it like she was slowly fading away as well, which made the audience interact with her.