Evaluation 1

                  In which ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms

                                   and conventions of real media products?




Our title

The title of our thriller/crime is called Paranoia. We kept it simple and short so that the audience didn't get too 

much of an understanding over the film through the title, not giving much of the story line away or easy to

guess. We wanted it to have the audience wanting to find out and guess what the story line could be about.

Setting and location

We set our filming in a typical setting of fields/land in open areas. This is how many thriller/crime films are 

filmed also. We wanted to have an over-cast sky as in many films in order to cause that effect of vulnerability 

the skies are usually dull, however we added an effect in to give ours the same atmosphere as that was the 

idea we was going for, this adds danger and creates a more of a negative effect on the situation.

Camera work and editing

We tried to vary our shots as much as possible so that we could show the filming from different directions and 

angles... especially different points of view. One being the general filming and then the other being from a

point of view from someone. We opened our thriller with a camera shot looking out on two horses looking

around outside their stables. After this we see our main character walk onto the yard. We ended up putting an

effect onto our footage as on the days filmed it was pretty bright and didn't give off a dull environment where

crime would occur so we added an effect to make it look slightly less bright. However by it not being the typical

crime setting of police tape and it being all rainy and dull, may have made it more interesting and stand out

because its the car pulling up and the sound of the gun going off which allows the audience to realise the

genre properly.


Title and font type

We spent a lot of time looking around for a font to sit nicely with our opening and also one that isn't always 

stereo typically used in this genre. So we wanted a font that would be effective but different, however we didn't 

want to make it random so that people didn't think it related to genre, which could then cause confusion for

them.We placed the credits in the fonts we had chosen at the bottom of the opening which came on gently and

every few seconds at a rhythm as we wanted to come in steps which is what the girl is taking to get to the field.

With our title we took a while changing and swapping the name of our film about. We decided on the 

name of 'Paranoia' and we chose a font finally. The title of our film is placed at the end to fade from 

the sky into darkness which is a black screen. We wanted it at the end so that it is effective as it can be due to 

having a build up first of all before it properly even works. Our title is a different font to our credits to 

differentiate them from each other as the title is meant to be more eye catching.


Genre and how the opening sets it 


Our genre is crime. When even planning our filming we knew we wanted to include enigma as it is known to be

a convention of thriller/crime. We used a few shots that included signs of danger which should've helped give

that something was going to happen to build something up. this is what creates the enigma for the audience as

they see things there but they are unsure and unaware of why its there.


How characters are introduced


There are only two characters in the opening of our crime. we wanted to introduce Olivia's character on her

own so it was easier to follow her and her actions. Allowing the audience to gain a relationship with her as they

follow her step by step doing her jobs. This also showed that she was alone and almost isolated as she

worked a fair distance with no interference from other humans. We first bring her into shot from no where so

 that it looks a bit strange from the point of view of the audience. Along side this we used shot to keep her face

hidden.