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

All together the film opening we made suits the forms and conventions of real media products. The opening is a strong, believable opening to an action/thriller film. For example the title: The Red-Field Protocol, has an action feel to it as it gives a feel of the army/special armed forces. As well as this the setting and location seems just like that of a action genre, the big hall with the dark lighting is typical of the action genre. Also the costumes and props suit the genre: me and Jess in all black - insinuating a dark or dangerous person. The only prop we used was the gunk, which was used to make the spy theme more believable.

Our opening sequences are quite typical of a thriller genre, because the clouds at the start make a serene environment until it all gets disturbed by Jess. This is typical of the genre as the night is darkest just before the dawn, similar to most movies. The story itself is very typical - spy vs spy, end of the world, nuclear disaster. the opening sets this up perfectly, for example the evacuation sign shows a little back story and gives a world for the audience to enter.

The special effects used were mainly basic, with an exciting effect on the gun - making it more believable and more exciting to watch. The other effects include a hue/saturation which provided the end of the world scenery. our opening sequence develops the conventions of the genre in such a way that the tension builds up and builds up (during the interrogation), i believe this is a developing of the conventions as it is typical to films of the genre.

Our opening had been influenced in a lot of ways, for example there is the western-barrel-gun-shot which is typical of the action genre. another way we were inspired is by the lighting and ambient music from the Dark Knight - used in the interrogation scene. This was very inspirational to us as we set out aiming to make an interrogation along the lines of the dark knight. So our work was influenced by the conventions of typical action films as well as a little inspiration from the dark knight.