Evaluation Conor Sturgess Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use,develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Title of film

The layout of words used in our film title hints to our audience the film narrative will be developed around the life of a teacher. The crossed out word ‘Right’ shows her occupation aspect. However this design could cause issues among our audience as they may not know the official spelling of the film title. But we chose to do this so we could challenge one aspect of conventional films, therefore making our film more intriguing. 

Setting and location

Since our film trailer was based around the life of a teacher, we found it fitting to incorporate our school for the majority of our camera shots. For example, the use of students being placed within the midground and background of our camera shots would bring the conventional school atmosphere to life. Although, I feel we should have developed more of our main characters life outside the school. This is because one dominated atmosphere fades away from most conventional films. But since we did not own any cameras of our own, it was difficult to film some more personal footage.

Costumes

After researching what the majority of our own student teachers would wear, we felt it was ideal to stick to the conventional smart but casual outfits teachers wear. Yet we developed the use of our character costume. Later within the trailer when she starts to get her life right we begin to use a motif of glasses to be the symbolic meaning that her life is becoming sorted and organised. I particularly like the smart glasses motif as its a very subtle, but powerful symbolise her life becoming right

Camera shots

After part of our product research we noted many British trailers such as Happy Go Lucky have center frame shots. We decided to incorporate and use this into our film trailer to stick to the conventional British drama. We also in somewhat developed this shot as we tilted the camera angle following our actress as she left, rather than cutting to another shot. We did this because we felt it gave a much stronger understanding of our film. We wanted our audience to understand that our film isn't going to be mainstream, nor packed with action, but more slow paced and dominated upon one character's life.

Music

The music within our trailer stays true to our genres conventional use of music. We chose 3 instruments, this allows our audience to relate the music to the character. Likewise with Happy go lucky, the choice of music used gives you an understanding of the characters personality, and this is a method we wished to shadow.

Editing

Editing in our film trailer was important to create links for our audience to our genre. Our film is involved around the life of an ordinary teacher who struggles with day-to-day issues, this meant it was vital our editing was slow paced rather than fast. We found slow paced scenes would allow our audience to become attached to the character; which is typically seen in many conventional British Drama films.