This document discusses how the student's media product uses and develops conventions from real media. It provides several examples of shots from films like 99 Francs, Skyfall, Divergent, Halloween, Birdman, Saving Private Ryan, Spy, and Lethal Weapon that are similar to shots used in the student's thriller. These include an establishing shot of a city, close-ups of a character's facial expressions before jumping, revealing shots that create tension, shots looking out into the distance, and shots of a gun pointing at a target. The student acknowledges limitations but aims to improve depth and add strong plot twists compared to other examples.

1. Evaluation Task One
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge for and conventions
for real media products?

2. In this scene from a film called 99 francs the character put his
hands up in the air right before he walks off the edge of the
building. In my opinion it is a very powerful shot and the shot
from our thriller is very similar to this specific one

3. This is an establishing shot from Skyfall
features an amazing view of London and
clearly displays Bond as being very high in
status. Our thriller features a similar
establishing shot however we used a green
screen whereas they used an actual
location.

4. In this scene in Divergent Tris is asked to jump off the side
of a building this close up camera shot really picks up her
facial expressions and the feelings that are running through
her head before she jumps. Our thriller introduction uses
the same shot and in my opinion creates the same effect.

5. In this revealing shot from Halloween it shocks
the audience and creates dramatic irony as we
know that the person is behind whereas the
character doesn't. Our thriller has a very similar
shot that we used with a sound effect to create
tension in the introduction.
There is also a similar shot used in the film
birdman however in this case the man can fly
where as in our thriller he cant.

6. In the film Saving Private Ryan a similar shot is used
too our thriller where the character is looking out into
the distance. This sets the scene of where the person
is and creates an atmosphere. You are almost being
put into the eyes of the character and are seeing what
they are seeing.
Again there is a similar shot in the city in birdman

7. In the film spy there is a “shot” of the gun pointing at a target. This draws the
audiences attention to the gun and then the person in front of it to heighten the
danger. We have a similar shot in our thriller however we over-layered the gun
using a green screen and post production to help.

8. Looking Back
 It would have been very nice to change the different angles of the city's
backdrop to make it look more professional and add a different perspective
however we were limited on stock footage with different angles and it
wouldn't’t of matched up.
 A shot like this from lethal weapon would
add so much depth if used in my thriller

9.  The idea of someone in a film/television show standing on the
side of a building about to jump is quite a common thing,
however I believe the plot in our thriller adds a much stronger
twist that other examples lack
Differences