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

Our film opening begins with a panning shot going across the back of the protagonist while he is sitting at a desk typing. This opening shot creates a sense of enigma as you can’t see the boy’s face, you don’t know where abouts he is and you don’t know what he is typing. Another way we created enigma in our film opening is by having no dialogue which represents our protagonist as a very mysterious character. We use some extreme close up shots and didn’t show the characters face which creates questions from the audience and again a sense of enigma. The end shot shows his eyes with a reflection of a gun in his glasses, this creates an even bigger sense of enigma and more questions from the audience as they don’t know what he is going to use the gun for or why he wants it. Also seeing the characters eyes gives the audience a chance to sort of ‘be inside the characters mind’ as his eyes gives away a lot about his emotions. We also tried to establish some dull lighting is some of the shots which connotes the negative feeling to our film opening as the boy is meant to come across as depressed. The reason we didn’t want to have bright colours and lighting is because that fits with films that would be romantic and happy and we didn’t want to subvert the conventions of a drama film too much.