evaluation part 1

1. Evaluation Part:
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By Tyrell Bibbiani

2. In what ways does your
media product use,
develop or challenge
forms and conventions of

3. In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
The dystopian themed sub-genre is
essentially a film genre that revolves around
a distant, apocalyptic./disaster based
future. Typically, within this genre, the
typical conventions conveyed is usually an
essence of action, thriller, drama and, a
small sense of horror.

4. In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?.
The action themes that we convey within our
title sequence was mainly conveyed through
the scene of our ‘Rebels’ group. We used key
iconography in order to portray this group as
we used a series of weapons, varying from
guns to knives and baseball bats
Furthermore, in order for the Rebels group
to come across as menacing, we decided to
use props and costumes including face masks
and temporary tattoos in order to appear
menacing, mysterious and ambiguous.

5. In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
The horror themes that we convey throughout our
title sequence was essentially conveyed through both
the ‘Illuminati’ and through the ‘Evangelists’ scene.
Purposely, we used dim and low-key lighting within
both of these scenes as it is a typical convention used
within the genre of horror. We also used focus pulls
in order to make the imagery appear ambiguous and
unclear to see. For the Evangelist scene, we used key
religious imagery and also low key lighting, which is
also often a typical convention followed by the horror
genres.

6. In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
Whilst creating and contemplating upon the narrative for our movie and how we were
going to convey the codes and conventions of a dystopian themed movie, I thought it was
essential to think about this through N.I.C.S:
• Narrative = (Plot) In a Dystopian future, the world is run down and, everybody lives in
a competitive society in order to survive. As a result, dangerous groups have began to
form, such as: The Illuminati, The Scavengers, The Rebels and The Evangelists.
However, The Government has decided to take out these groups altogether and have
set up CCTV around their surroundings in order to keep a close eye upon them. The
government have a meeting, in order to make a plan to take out each group
individually.
• Iconography = (Visual props conveyed in the film) Guns, weapons, knives, baseball
bats, cloaks and religious imagery using Jesus’ cross.
• Characters = (Character portrayed within the film) The Government leader, young
teenagers to represent the Scavengers, sophisticated businessmen and women for the
government, and a group of rough and older adults for the Rebels.
• Settings = (The setting of our movie) We used a variety of locations, ranging from
London, The Shard, a Church, a run-down alleyway and the forests.

7. In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?In comparison to the cinematography used within a typical and
conventional Dystopian themed movie, our title sequence is very
steady, sharp, focused and very stylised. Our title sequence includes a
variety of high key colours and low key colours in order to convey
certain themes and messages to the audience. For every government
scenes, it was our primary objective to have a blue tint/filter in order
for the audience to know it was the government as we felt as though
the blue filter represented higher/upper class and formal. Whereas
for the Illuminati scenes and Evangelist scenes, we ensured that we
used low key lighting in order for the audience to distinguish the
difference between the higher, upper class and the lower class.
Through the majority of our title sequence, the camera is very still,
focused (and focus pulls used at some points) but, when it comes to
the Scavengers and the Rebels scene, the camera is very shaky,
disorientating and jumpy in order to portray excitement and
unsteadiness, again contrasting from the higher upper class
government scenes.