Evaluation task 1

19.03.2015

Evaluation Task:1

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

Make it or Break it: 

Although not a thriller, the gymnastics-base American TV program ‘Make It or Break It’ had elements that the gymnasts used that our group thought would look good in our thriller.

The clip on the top is the one from the TV program and the one on the bottom is from our thriller.  As shown they are both the same element, known as illusion.  We decided to make our gymnast do this in the sequence because we thought that it would show off the true extent of the talents of our gymnast.

Stick It

Again, 'Stick It' isn't a thriller but rather an American movie about aspiring gymnasts.  There is one main scene within the movie that our group liked the difference camera angles and traditions that they used to create the short sequence.

As shown above, they used birds-eye view shots within their sequence which we also ended up using within our final sequence. At one stage in our planning, after watching some clips from 'Stick It', we were thinking of perhaps using the same effects that they used such as the kaleidoscope, but when we were editing we thought that it wouldn't work in the context of our film.

Another idea that I really liked within our thriller was the slow-motion of the gymnasts hands cutting together, once watching 'Stick It' I thought that it would really work within our sequence.

Although the original clip that we got our idea from was not in slow motion, we thought that the addition of the slow-mo on the second clap creates more suspense and therefor builds up the tension. This also helps to allude to the idea that our film is a thriller because up to this point it had been very simple editing and shots all at a normal pace, therefore making it able to be mistaken for any genre of film.