In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? - By Johnny Wring

1.The setting/location of our movie opening is in a small-darkened room, complimenting the crime genre and narrative we have chosen. Using the typical conventions of other crime movies, our location has a sense of isolation and crime infestation amongst it. Perhaps not developing the typical conventions of crime movies as much as we could have, our setting/location still uses many of the conventions found in other products of a similar nature.

2. Our movie focuses a lot on close ups of characters as well as high and low shots of the characters to create tension and show the  authority of certain characters to help the audience understand what its all about and whats going on. These are the typical conventions you would find with similar products. As well as this we edited a lot of our movie opening in an attempt to use and develop the typical conventions of real media products. Our biggest edit would have to of been changing the   

look of the opening to black and white, which perhaps challenged forms and conventions of real media products as not many crime movies are filmed in black and white, especially these days.

3.Our costumes and props are very typical of a crime movie. Another movie that could perhaps be compared to ours when it comes to costume and props would be ‘Reservoir Dogs’ which consists of professional criminals dressed to match their particular style. In our movie we are dressed in suits and have typical props of a crime movie such as guns and cigars/Cigarettes.

4.When comparing our title to the typical conventions of other real media products, specifically within the crime genre we can see that it isn’t far off. Many movies centered around crime such as Guy Ritchie’s ‘RocknRolla’ have a particular font and style to compliment them, and our product is no different. For our title we used a specific font called ‘mobsters’ which matched the whole crime genre perfectly, using the current conventions of real products as well as developing them further. The name of our movie opening ‘Interceptors’ was picked for many reasons, one being the fact that it matched our style of film and characters. Interceptors sounds aggressive and professional representing our characters and style of film within the opening very well.  Just like in Guy Ritchie’s ‘RocknRolla’ the name of the film represents the style of film and characters perfectly.

5. There are three characters in our movie opening. 'DCI Woods', 'Mr Edgar' and 'Mr Cooper'. 'DCI Woods' is introduced to the opening as a hostage tied to a chair, in which we have the camera start on him and move up behind him slowly. Our second character (Mr Edgar) is then introduced to the opening with an intimidating walk into the only source of light in the shot where he then turns and stares towards the hostage. Our third character is then introduced into the opening 'Mr Cooper' when called by 'Mr Edgar' where he then enters.