EVALUATION: PART 4

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

Action film is a film genre in which one or more heroes are thrust into a series of challenges that typically include physical feats, extended fight scenes, violence, and frantic chases.(Our film includes a lot of the iconography displayed in an action film; the fight, chases and violent scenes happen when the girls go to California and the drug lord's squad find them)

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. (The emotional themes in our film is the girls realising they have got nothing left after getting chased and caught by the drug lords squad and the FBI, also dealing with the death of one out of the four, Scarlett.)

(Subgenre) Teen films is a film genre targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers, such as coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst or alienation. (All of the iconography of a teen genre film is clearly shown in our film. Rebellion would be the business the girls are in and stealing the money etc, first love would be Scarlett and Alejandro, conflict with parents would be two of the girls who come from higher backgrounds, leaving home to join this lifestyle.)

When thinking about the narrative for our film and how were going to show the codes and conventions of a action/drama and teen we thought about STINCS:

Settings - (Where the film is set and takes place) London, Las Vegas and California.
Themes -  (Genre) Action/Drama/Teen
Iconogrpahy - (Visual elements portrayed in the film) Balaclava's, money, alcohol, drugs, knives guns, make-up, designer jewellrey.
Narrative - (Storyline/plot) Four girls who are employed by a drug lord decide to take his money and run away to California to start their own business however they first stop off in Las Vegas to double their money in the Casino's. The luxury lifestyle however doesn't last for long and all hell breaks loose in California with the drug dealers squad.
Characters - (Main/minor characters) Scarlett, Vivian, Chantelle, Lacy, Darnell, Samuel, Alejandro, Milo.
Style - (Way it is put together) We used Tzetan Todorov's theory.

Much like the cinematograpghy in a typical action/drama film, our title sequence is very stylised and includes quite dark colours along with the costumes and everything from money to guns and cars within the mise-en-scene. The colour scheme is all black and red, red connoting the danger and black connoting the darkness of the girls' life and what's to come. The camera is very still most of the time focusing on each shot keeping you locked in with the drama and action.
When editing our sequence we decided to cut the scenes sharply and some smoothly just to capture the fast pace feel to the scene.
The music to our title sequence was originally going to be a male rap vocal however looking on the website I come across the song we used and my group aswell as everyone in my class seemed to enjoy and love the song and thought it fitted in perfectly with our title sequence so we decided to use that. It portrays the upbeat excited feel the girls are feeling in our title sequence very well.