Evaluation Question 1

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

In a variety of ways, our media product has used aspects from other real film title sequences . Firstly we were inspired by the film phone booth. In the film phone booth we identified some particular camera shots and decided to use similar shots in our own. An example of the resemblance of shots is conveyed in the pictures below :

This still shot from our title sequence uses some concepts of the still image from that from the film phone booth. The camera shot are corresponding, the mis en scene in the shots are similar also with ours featuring a scene of a closed area ie the phone box and that from the phone booth. It shows in both also that the surroundings are bright in terms of lighting but feature a contrast of image as they both have something such as graffiti or smashed glass that give a clue to their difficult situations. Furthermore, the use of the phone box in the real film resembles the one from ours.

Secondly, when we compare these two pictures , we can establish that Colin Farrel, from the film Phonebooth, and Neto have similar attire. They are both dressed quite formal. Like from the film Phone booth we have used a black jacket. The black jacket is a connotation that something unfortunate is going to happen to the character. As we look as the emotions expressed by the two different characters there is a difference, in Phone Booth the character looks assertive in contrast to Neto who looks nervous and weary.

In these pictures we see the two characters are alike in the way that they are both distressed from thier situation.