Evaluation Question 1Media Study

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

CALLAC

The thriller opening sequence we produced is about a man who has the ability to travel through time, this allows him to help the police to solve crime.

In this power point I am going to compare our sequence to other media products for example, The Life and Death of Otto Bloom, Looper, and the music video of Breezeblocks.

The life and death of Otto Bloom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj_D2KFCpQ0

It is an Australian fictional documentary, drama film written and directed by Cris Jones. Its production company was Optimism and was distributed by Bonsai Films.

It was released on 28th of July 2016. The story is about a man who lives

his life backwards or in reverse, which means that he knows future not the past.

Looper https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iQuhsmtfHw

It is an American science fiction thriller film written and directed by Rian Johnson. Its production company was Endgame Entertainment, and was distributed by Tristar Pictures.

It was released in Toronto, September 6, 2012.

It is about a man who is a contract killer working for a criminal company, he to kills people that were send to him by time travel.

Breezeblocks https://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=rVeMiVU77wo It is a song by British indie rock

band alt-J from their album “An awesome water”.

It was released on 18 May 2012.

The music video is directed by Ellis Bahl.

Comparing the name and titles In their film title they include the name of their main character

Otto Bloom. I think the reason why they named him Otto is because the name can be read backwards(a palindrome name), which is logical as he is living his life backwards.

The title of our thriller is also the name of our main character. We chose the name Callac, because it is a male palindrome name, which can hit that the character has a special ability to travel back to the past.

The titles are both written in white capital letters with black backgrounds, placing in the middle of the screen. The titles are big and clear for the audience to look at.

We flipped the last two letters of our title to grab the audience’s attention and make the fact that the name can be read from backwards more obvious.

Comparing characterOtto Bloom Living his life different

from others, he is self-complacence because he is special and famous.

The costume of Otto Bloom is more mature. Nice clothing, gives the audience a feeling that he cares about fashion.

Callac He is special because

of his ability. He have confidence in what he believes, so he does not listen to what other says.

The costume of Callac shows that he is a teenager, a feeling of casual.

Comparing plotline

Difference In Looper the main

character is a member of a criminal organisation.

Looper is set in the future. Our thriller is set in the present.

At the end of Looper, the main character kills himself to save the child and his mother. We did not plan that to happen in our thriller.

Similarity Both story involves

time travel, past and future.

Both have fighting or killing scenes.

Using their power to help or protect others.

Comparing editing

In the film Looper after the title appearing, the move starts with black background, and the main character Joe explaining the setting of the film. For example, when it was set in time, then cuts to other scenes with the narration continuing.

In our thriller, we also started with black background on the screen it is to make the audience to focus on what is going to happen in the sequence.

We did not use narration in our sequence, but the sound of the birds was played through out the sequence, linking the death with the birds to foreshadow the bad luck.

Comparing camera angles In the film, there are several shots when the main

character needs to check the time. The shot is from the character’s point of view, as the

watch fill the frame, it is used to show the audience the time and what the character is looking at.

In our sequence, we want the audience to see on the fact that the inspector checked the time on his watch. Which means that he is annoyed by the main character and thinks that he is using up his own time for something pointless.

close up on the hand and watch.

In Looper and our thriller, both have a lot of close up shots taken on the main characters. These shots are used to make the main character stand out from the background, focusing on their facial expressions, eye-line and their emotions they want to express.

Comparing action and

pace The action taken placed in the music video Breezeblocks is mostly played backwards in slow motion.

The fight is between a man and a woman. The woman wanted to kill the man, but then got herself killed by him.

In our opening sequence the girl is injured and killed by the man. Unlike the music video she did not fight back at all.

The process of her getting killed is mostly played reversely in slow motion, this is because we wants to show that it was happened in the past.