Evaluation Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

1. The title of the film: The title of the film is shown through a very hazy burgundy cloud of smoke. The font is shown in neat italics, connoting themes such as hope, love, compassion, trust & promise. The hazy clouds behind the title connotes the notion that the characters will forever be plagued by their deeds no matter how hard they try to change, as well as suggesting danger & commotion.

2. Setting/location: The location is filmed around an estate at night, connoting a sense of danger and mystery.

3. Costumes and props: Here the characters costumes are seen as very shabby, especially the character Jospehine, who's clothes seem to be quite revealing and unladylike, which connotes the careless and disheveled lifestyle that she leads. The props shown are an alcohol bottle and cigarettes, further emphasising the drug-filled lifestyle of the characters.

4. Camerawork and editing: For the CCTV effect, we filmed Terry from an above angle shot, and slowly filmed him walking through the streets, as if we were tracking him. This effect was to echo CCTV footage presented on the news whenever there has been a stabbing etc.

5. Title font and style: The font prints are small to connote the idea of the characters living a larger than life lifestyle and how they are easily caught up in it and are slowly becoming consumed by it, hence why the cloud of smoke fades into black.

6. Story and how the opening sets it up:

7. Genre & how the opening sets it up: this shot shows the two characters during a confrontational scene. The clothing that the characters represent the theme dramatic/street theme to our film as well as being very obvious iconography.

8. How characters are introduced: The way that the split screen shows the characters and their movements shows the guilt and shame that they film. They grey connotes that everything is not 'White' or 'Black (good & bad) for them and that they are stuck in the middle.

9. Special effects: Shown here is a smoking scene, in which the smoke has been reversed, appearing to go back into the mouth rather than out. This editing techniqufurther connotes the ideas of each of the characters living a very backwards lifestyle and how the mentality they are forced to take upon is slowly consuming them.