Question 1

1. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I thought of the title of my life 'The Last Job' to make the audience understand the man in this particular opening sequence has done something bad because he has been told to not by choice. It throws of that idea to the audience that he could be involved in some type of spy or mi5 job.
The setting was based at Mitch's house (the man played in the opening sequence) and my very own house, I thought that the setting should be in a house so that Mitch can look back on pictures of him and the girls around the house, to show the audience that he actually knew them both and they were not just strangers to him. It was also a good setting as from the girls perspective we can see that this is there house as Mitch looks back on the memories of both of them and that they have been betrayed by someone they love in there own property.  I used very normal down to earth clothing for the actors. Mitch was dressed in very casual clothing, this might been seen as he has dressed himself so casual as he does not want to do this job he just wants to be his own self again. The girls are dressed in pajamas so we can show the audience that this could of been any normal night and they were dressed for a normal night in. I used casual clothing, such as jeans and jumpers for the girls on the flashbacks as I wanted the audience to see that these people were just average normal people we see everyday doing everyday things with there friends.
I found that my camerawork could of been a lot better than what it was, I found it very difficult to film Mitch in many scenes as he is very tall and did not fit into most shots unless I held the camera myself, so in the end only a few scenes were actually used with the tripod which I did find rather irritating. I found editing really fun to do, I filmed many scenes three times so that I could get the perfect one, I enjoyed using many effects to make my opening sequence the best it could be. I did not enjoy how much I had to cut down my opening sequence as I did not think it would make sense to the audience if I did not have all the scenes I planned on having but in the end it all worked out.
I used white and black for my titles, I did not plan on using two different colors but on some scenes the black would not work out with the background and on some scenes the white would not work out with the background. But I did research and looked at many different types of crime thriller opening sequences and I found that they used many different fonts and colors so I thought that I would do the same. I used a very normal, bold font just to show to go with the seriousness going on in each scene.
The story is very different, I wanted a unique story to stand out. Mitch is a mi5 agent, he works for the government and he is friends with these two girls Alice and Abigail. They are best friends, but as his final job he is told to eliminate of them which he is not happy on doing so but he has to as it is his job and if he does not serious consequences could happen. Abigail and Alice have a confidential paper which is needed by the government, the audience do not see what is in this paper but for someone to kill there best friends it must be important, so therefore this will leave the audience wanting to know more. Abigail and Alice come across as very nice, normal looking girls who would not be involved in any type of problem which makes the story even more interesting. Mitch looks very vulnerable and down for an agent, this makes the audience feel sorry for him but yet at the same time mad because of what he has down.