A2 Practical Evaluation

Soriah Lewin
 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
There are several ways in which I’ve
used and developed the forms and I used quick flashing
conventions of real media products images of this particular
with my own product that I created. image, as I thought it was
quite hard hitting, and was
a good representation of
The conventions of my teaser trailer the genre of drama in my
are quite varied to the conventions trailer.
in a typical football hooligan film,
such as The Firm or Awaydays. As it
doesn’t contain as much group As can be seen in the image from Awaydays, the
scenes, or hands – on violence. I group scenes have a big amount of actors in them,
decided against these certain and it adds to the intensity of the violence and
drama. For my own trailer, I only shot one group
conventions, because it would scene, even though the actors I used were very
challenging to gather a vast amount enthusiastic, I don’t believe that I achieved the look
of actors together, and also because high intensity as there weren’t as many in the scene
I didn’t want the violence to make as there would be in a typical football film.
the film look over the top, I wanted
to focus on the drama genre of it. I
tried to use the conventions of a
teaser trailer, by using quick pace
flashing images. But I chose to slow
down some scenes, to exaggerate
the drama of the trailer.
 Costume
Costume was a very important element for
my trailer, as my original idea was to set it
in the 80’s. But I changed this idea, due to
issues with being able to film. But I still kept
the idea of having an 80’s theme with the
clothing. This is why the main protagonist is
wearing Fila jackets, and Adidas Originals
trainers, as these are type of clothing that
football casuals wore in the 80’s, and these
sorts of clothing are now coming back into
fashion in the modern day.

As can be seen from the

images, there are links
between the clothing from
The Firm, and my own
trailer.