Evaluation- Part 1

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


Our final product is a hybrid genre which is a combination of thriller,mystery and urban realism but we decided to focus of the thriller side of it. Evasion is recognizable as a thriller because of the CU shot of the main character Hannah deeply breathing and her distress shown through the acting. I also chose to film this short scene in a small confined area where there'd be minimum disturbances in interruptions and noise, I also chose to film this with the lights off, as you cannot really see a lot of 'Hannah' (Molly Hemsley) which creates more of the mysterious atmosphere, making it more intense adding to the typical thriller feel which gives a hint to the event about to happen in the rest of the film which gives that enigmatic feel to the opening scene(s)..

We chose to use natural lighting whereas most thrillers actually edit the lighting to make the shots darker which adds to the intense scary feel of thrillers, but as the majority of our shots are quite dark anyway due to the time of day that we filmed we didn't feel it necessary to edit the lighting. In the opening the main character Hannah resembles more of the princess role rather than the heroin, but in the end Hannah comes out triumphant  although this isn't shown in the opening, I believe that this develops the genre of thrillers as normally I find that you know the role of the characters from the very beginning. 
   We used 'Hanna (2011)' as our baseline film. This meant that we borrowed some thriller conventions from this film. I liked the fact that it didn't need music to bring me into the film as the music only lasted for 7 seconds and the rest of the sound was diegetic, we used this for our film, we opened with the diegetic sound and then put in music. 

Hanna's titling is quite typical of a thriller. It's a simple font to read and it stands out as it's in capitals and uses a bright red background with white lettering. We used this as a baseline to copy. We put red lettering on a black background. We chose to only put our titling of 'EVASION' up briefly as in Hanna that is what really stood out to me.