EVALUATION QUESTION 1

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

After reading an article by Mark Kermode on 'Cinema 2015: A way of change and renovation' I realised that a lot of his article was relevant to the film me and my group our producing. This article is all about the many ways in which we can watch films, and how smaller independent films are getting more and more views due to the many ways we can watch. It discusses how people are getting bored of the big box office superhero films. Even Dustin Hoffman a hollywood star declares 'Its the worst that film has ever been'. 

Our trailer is a fast paced moving trailer. We are trying to include key scenes that the audience will be gripped by as this will entice more viewers. We have filmed lots of scenes, some being better than others. So as we know the hollywood fascination is superhero fast slick moving edits, we want to make sure when it comes to the editing stage that everything looks slick and the scenes are being used in the best way. In order to keep up with the current audience fascination we need to make sure the editing is perfect. Mark Kermode has said 'The most significant movies of 2014 were Transformers: Age of Extinction, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, X-Men: Days of Future Past and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1' After watching all of these trailers its obvious the editing is very well done and has been deliberately had a lot of time put into it to get the audience gripped.


I am an actor in my film and I play quite a big role in the whole trailer as I am 'Eve' the one who is choosing money over my love for 'Adam'. By reading a lot of articles about film I can see that the role of women is increasing as before no woman ever would feature as a main character. I found a good website called 'Film School Rejects' The Bechdel Test is a benchmark for movies developed by Alison Bechdel in 1985. For a movie to pass The Bechdel Test, it must contain just one thing – a scene in which two or more named female characters have a conversation (that is, back and forth dialogue) about anything besides men. It could be anything, even if it’s something stereotypical, like shopping or shoes. I thought this was an easy test too pass. It shocked me that only half out of 2500 films passed the test. There is a slow uprise of Woman coming into films as Mark Kermode mentions in his article: 'with Geena Davis headlining a symposium on gender imbalance in the media' But later says: perhaps we can take heart from the fact that so many of this year’s most exciting films have been helmed by women. Maybe the industry’s long-established gender bar is finally starting to crack. The role in woman in my trailer even thought it is a small low budget film is very important and almost puts the film together. We are following the story of Adam and Eve who both hold a equally important part, but as this is a film we have made the woman role more import to create more of a story.

I think smaller film industry will increase because of the large platforms we can watch film on. Different tables (nearly every tablet) allows you to watch films. This means films can be watched anywhere. Having thinks like netflix and amazon prime means a lot more films that not as many people will have heard of can be streamed. Films have to be very popular to make it to cinema, and making it to Netflix isn't such a hard achievement to reach. Mark Kermode says this : 'with the rise of “on demand” services such as Curzon Home Cinema and the BFI-Player, viewers are becoming increasingly used to the idea that they can choose whether to watch a movie at home or in a theatre'. This is stating that everyone is use to knowing that movies can be watched wherever and not just in a cinema.  'A field in England' produced by Ben Wheatley was a film released on free-to-air TV, video-on-demand, DVD, cinemas) “enabling viewers to decide how, where and when to view the film”.