In What ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I will be analyzing two different scene shots from our British Social realist film Brother. I will be explaining how different elements and aspects of to screen shot in relation to our film help us portray and conform to the Genre. In modern Social realist films the audio used tends to to go against previous social realist films which used diagetic sounds/audio. Modern Social Realist now tend to use Non- Diagetic music and go against this convention of diagetic audio.
Shot 1
This particular shot has the conventions of the use of a hand held camera shot. We chose to use the effect of hand held shooting because it will make the audience feel like they are walking with the character, thus it showing to be an over the shoulder shot.
The audience has not yet been introduced to this character, they have yet to see the characters face but are shown the back of the characters head. By looking at the character there are conventions to how the modern teenager is seen today via the character earing headphones, having a rucksack and waistcoat, all of these things are seen to represent the youths of today. In terms of Mise en scene the location is made evident from the sign (Boxed in red). Despite using a middle class character we tried to set our opening in areas that will conform to Social Realist films and so choosing to film this shot in this location really had a emphasis on this. The audience gets more of a view of the location and as shown in a red box there is a light at the end of the tunnel, this could easily be seen as a positive aspect but instead we used it as a distraction for the audience.
Shot 2
This shot has many conventions to that of social realist films, such Long shots. This Long shot shown in the image below could not be planned and so the actor had to improvise many time sin order for us3 to gain an authentic and real effect. In terms of the location we tried to show the locality of where our opening was taking place. Most openings are filmed in known places to the audience and this is what we took heed of when shooting in the train station, the train station was Tulse Hill which is fairly known. The location is in contrast to that of the character. the character is made to stereotype the youths of today fairly related to gang culture and the different aspects into how the audience and people how relate to this characters portrayal.
The characters isolation is shown evidently with no one else surrounding him. Conventionally these aspects are in relation to the working class of today and we challenge this because we focus on the characters individual. We stick to the general conventions though with location having the graffiti on the walls. We develop this shot by having many other contrast as well such as the lighting in the shot. On the left hand side it seems more lighter but on the right it reveals to be a more shaded. Overall for these two shots I think we manipulated these conventions into our own to portray the Genre and relation to the aduience.
Shot 1
This particular shot has the conventions of the use of a hand held camera shot. We chose to use the effect of hand held shooting because it will make the audience feel like they are walking with the character, thus it showing to be an over the shoulder shot.
The audience has not yet been introduced to this character, they have yet to see the characters face but are shown the back of the characters head. By looking at the character there are conventions to how the modern teenager is seen today via the character earing headphones, having a rucksack and waistcoat, all of these things are seen to represent the youths of today. In terms of Mise en scene the location is made evident from the sign (Boxed in red). Despite using a middle class character we tried to set our opening in areas that will conform to Social Realist films and so choosing to film this shot in this location really had a emphasis on this. The audience gets more of a view of the location and as shown in a red box there is a light at the end of the tunnel, this could easily be seen as a positive aspect but instead we used it as a distraction for the audience. Shot 2
This shot has many conventions to that of social realist films, such Long shots. This Long shot shown in the image below could not be planned and so the actor had to improvise many time sin order for us3 to gain an authentic and real effect. In terms of the location we tried to show the locality of where our opening was taking place. Most openings are filmed in known places to the audience and this is what we took heed of when shooting in the train station, the train station was Tulse Hill which is fairly known. The location is in contrast to that of the character. the character is made to stereotype the youths of today fairly related to gang culture and the different aspects into how the audience and people how relate to this characters portrayal.
The characters isolation is shown evidently with no one else surrounding him. Conventionally these aspects are in relation to the working class of today and we challenge this because we focus on the characters individual. We stick to the general conventions though with location having the graffiti on the walls. We develop this shot by having many other contrast as well such as the lighting in the shot. On the left hand side it seems more lighter but on the right it reveals to be a more shaded. Overall for these two shots I think we manipulated these conventions into our own to portray the Genre and relation to the aduience.
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