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

 Setting/location:
The opening image is of the main actor asleep in bed. This sets the location and mood of the following shots, as many other films start in this way.

 Title font and style:
Large size font filling up the screen, with scruffy style, all of the credits are this style but the title of the film. This ties along with the mise en scene of the following footage.

 Special Effects:
Not so much a special effect, but more of a mask, in this shot I have had to cover a mirror with a box the same colour as the wall and cut out the actor, frame by frame so that the reflection in the mirror is not seen.
Additional colour correction was applied to most of the footage in order to lower the mood, and enhance the effect produced on the audience.

 Costumes and Props:
Here we see for the first time a good view of the actor dressed up and with her bag (the only prop). The clothing and bag suggest to the audience that she is most likely still in education, this is suggested by the style of bag used.

 How characters are introduced:
The way that I have tried to really introduce this character to the audience is by videoing the majority of her face a fair way into the opening. It has taken a little while for the audience to be properly introduced to this character as they have not yet been able to really associate themselves with her, by not being shown any emotion up until this point.

 Story and how the opening scene sets it up:
After seeing the actor get into a car, in a following shot we see her leave the car at what looks like her final destination. This particular shot moves the story along and is aimed to focus the audience into what will happen next.

 Camera work and editing:
The POV (point of view) shot that I have taken a screen shot of. This was the first POV shot that I have taken and worked well, all of the other shots were either panning shots or were still shots as in my preliminary task.

 Genre and how the opening scene suggests it:
For me, this is the defining shot which sets the mood or genre of the opening sequence. There is a slow zoom as we watch the actor walk away from where she has been dropped off, and left her bag, which was only needed for the place she had been dropped off at.

The title of the film:
I decided to have the title of the film in a colder colour, with what is almost artificial lighting in order to illuminate it. This shows the 'coldness' and emphasises the genre of the film as well as reinforcing the subject of the following story.