We have evaluated our draft to ensure that we can improve the necessary faults so our final cut matches the conventions of a social realism. We answered the question 'In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products in association with our trailer?'
After reviewing our draft, we concluded what strengths and weaknesses the product had. These include:
Strengths
- Award research
- Original film production company
- Creative font- for anchorage and title sequence
- Use of colour filters- black and white at the end
- Variety of editing techniques- reverse of girl's journey, slow motion in bedroom scene
- Variety of shots- tracking shot, point of view shot, high angle shot
- Variety of lighting- low key and high key lighting
- Good camera quality- Cannon with changeable lens and excellent zoom and focus features
Weaknesses
- Sound is not as layered
- Voiceovers are not embedded- they stick out and sound irregular
- Shots of the laptop are basic and boring- too amateur, does not show our skill and genre
There are certain conventions that you expect to see in a social realism that we should include in our trailer to demonstrate how we have understood and reproduced a social realist trailer.
In our first draft we have matched the conventions in many ways:
- We have included a main protagonist (the girl) which is a convention of a social realist text
- We have depicted a working class lifestyle through the housing estate shots
- The actress is an unknown female which confirms the genre
- The storyline matches the conventions as it is hard hitting and emotional through shots such as the dad with the belt and the scene with the girl in bed with the boy.
- Social Realist films normally use mostly diegetic sound which we used through dialogue
- One of our themes was sex which is a common trait of social realisms
- We challenge the stereotypes of the genre by narrowing the themes, excluding drugs, alcohol and antisocial behaviour.
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