EVALUATION

Part 4 – In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The narrative of our film starts of with a new friendship, building into a relationship. It all begins as a lovely love story, which leads to a violent, disturbing, and unpleasant life style of two young adults.

The genre of the film is introduced to the audience when the first images are seen on the screen of a young woman’s dead body, which has some unpleasant views of her bruises and cuts.

The introduction camera angles and shots show every detail of the girls body. Starting of by a bird’s eye view, to see the state of the dead girl, leading to close ups of the main features, like cuts and bruises. The shots change to cropped mid shots hiding part of Danny's identity and most of the shots being dark. This shows the mysterious and the unpleasant side of Danny. As Leila is seen the shots change to long shots, as she has nothing to hide. As Leila walks towards home, the long shots switch to point of view showing what Leila sees. Danny appears, and this is the first time that Leila as well as the audience get to meet Danny face to face. As Leila and Danny begin to talk point of view switches to a long shot showing both of their identities. A time laps has been added as they leave, showing the time changing from daytime to nighttime. As it is nighttime the mystery takes over as a knock on the door is not only heard but also seen. We do not get to see the identity of the visitor, which may give us an idea of it being Danny. The last shot that has been included is over the shoulder shot, hiding the identity of Danny and completely revealing the identity of Leila.

The editing starts of with a white flash added to the photographs which makes them appear rather effectively as the brightness is an easy way to attract some ones attention. Cross dissolve has been used in every shot, which lets the title sequence flow without pauses. A Split screen has been used to make the car unlocking look realistic. We had to play around with the lighting using final cut pro for the scenes to fit in, as it got darker outside while filming.

The main sound of the title sequence is non-diegetic. We have chosen an instrumental from Eminem ft. Rihanna - I love the way you lie part 2 as the song is about how a boy lies to a girl, which is relevant to ‘trapped in love’ as Danny pretends to like Leila to get closer to her. Also, the music is very powerful, as a violin and a piano have been used. These two instruments create a sad theme to the audience. A sound effect of a camera has been used; this is to create a crime scene effect to the audience. These sounds are the most important as they both create great themes and moods to the audience. Some diegetic sound has been used to make the audience feel like they are part of the film.

Dark lighting has been used to create the mystery as well as tension towards Danny. Bright and wide shots have been used to represent a normal young lady, Leila, with no secrets and no mysteries. I believe that the lighting has done its job and worked rather well, by getting the themes across to the audience.

We have decided to keep the typography rather simple to keep the main focus on the title sequence it's self.