Final Evaluation - Gareth Allen

Evaluation for Blog

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

· The Social Realism in our film has been used to target the audience so that they feel they can relate to the film themselves. This was done by the main character driving along day to day roads and we see him acting as if it is a normal day in his life.

· We also used thriller aspects in our film so that there isn’t just the one aspect in the film. We tried to make the unknown figure, kept unknown so the audience are questioning who they are.

· We didn’t use the technique of Mike Leigh’s where the characters are at different extremes of each other (mainly because there is only the one character and they didn’t use any dialogue throughout).

· The sounds used throughout are similar to other shorts in how we used both diegetic and non diegetic sounds in the film. This is used in other shorts such as ‘Joy Ride’, ‘Eight’ and ‘Slap’. We used mostly non diegetic sounds, such as the soundtrack at the start, middle and end of the film, except for the phone going, the car horn and the only words used at the end of the film.

· For editing this short, we felt that in traditional films, they use dissolve transitions to show a difference between time and we used this to indicate the difference between the dream world of the character, and the reality world. We also changed the soundtrack along with these transitions during the film.