EVALUATION 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The first frame shows the title of the film. we placed the title on the bottom left corner. we used white for the first two words, "The lost" This connotes innocence and purity, This gives the audience an insight on into what the film could be about as the the colours may represent the loss of a crop, which will be important within the film. We decided to make the first two word in bold as this will symbolize the female protagonist's innocence, This would conform to the stereo types of romance films as it starts to reflect the emotions of the film into the titles, allowing the audience to find out more on the film and why the title has been chosen, as it relates to a certain part of the film, so the audience will have to watch the film in order find out and relate back to the film title. This would leave an enigma code for audience to find out why the locket is an important aspect of the film, and how it could relate to the genre of the film. The "locket" in red italics, connotes love and relationships, This will be an key aspect of the film as it shows that the locket will represent a relationship which will bring the two main protagonist together. This would conform to the stereotypes of romance films because the title alongside the colour which we have put with it will associate with a relationship, allowing the audience to knowing the genre of the film, because of the titles, and the font used to help the audience recognize the genre, so being able to attract the right audience. The italics which compliments the 'locket', shows importance of the prop, allowing the audience to have a focus on a particular prop, which will be shown during the film. When choosing what titles we should have looked up some titles relating to the romance genre, for example The holiday, the title is shown as two women swap homes in different countries, where they will meet guy which they will eventually fall in love with. This shows that the titles being chosen suit to the storyline of the film, so the audience can have brief idea of what it could be about. We choose to put the title on a blank shot, with black background, as this conforms to a typical introduction of the film, as the titles are presented through blank screens, allowing the audience to find out more the production on the film.

This frame shows the location and setting of the film, we had chosen to begin the opening with the female protagonist walking to school, so showing the path way in which she travel through. we had chosen this setting to open the film is that relate back to the storyline of the film, as the female protagonist is taking the audience through her journey to college. The right pan camera movement, is started with as the female protagonist is walking passed. The road shown in the long shot of her walking to college shows her journey to college. The audience would be able to relate as the target audience will consist of  teenage girls, who will have experienced there journey to college and the voice over which will complement this, will also be relatable to audience. We also used the sixth form common room, and this will make the audience familiar with the college setting and make audience make relate to the film and the event that will occur within it. The stereo types conformed in this frame is that the opening begins with the female protagonist, which shows that the main focus will be on her, as the rest of opening will consist of following the female protagonist, on her journey to college. The long shot represented through this frame allows the audience to be shown in as hidden personality, and the female protagonist costume and appearance is one of the most important part in representing her personality to the audience so they can find out a bit about how the female protagonist is presented and will allow the audience to build expectation on how the protagonist should act.

This frame shows the costume of the female protagonist, and how it shoes her personality. The female protagonist is wearing a black coat, tights along with black boots. We have chosen this outfit for her because it will allow the audience to show the female protagonist and her personality. Her personality will be shown as hidden and shy as this will show her feelings as she starts a new school, so her personality will show that she wont get attached with people as much, as this is also addressed in the voiceover. The conventions which would suit this long shot is that the opening follows the female protagonist on her journey to college, ad tracking shot is established as this allows the audience to feel apart of her journey.

 This frames shows us a close up on a side angle of the female protagonist as she looks towards the male protagonist in the opening. This adheres to the conventions of a romance film, as there is build in connection between the male and female protagonist leaving an enigma code for the audience to find out what connection there may be between these two characters. We then cut to the male protagonist who enters in in the study room and make a slight glance at the female protagonist. This shows that the conventions of the romance film has been met as we have introduced the two main protagonist and have started to create enigma codes for the audience about these two characters as it will show the audience that there is a connection between them and they would have to watch on to find out what happened in relation to there relationship.

The next frame shows some of the titles that we used to in order to to show the audience on who made the film, so including director and editor. We originally had the idea of having the titles with action during the opening so as the protagonist is walking we would introduce this then we decided to not put all the titles in the action scenes. So we created a blank background and decided to put the titles diagonal form each other. The font that we used suits the conventions of a romance film as it as the white connotes innocence which will be reflect in the opening as the it will involve relationship, alongside with white italic bold font which allows the appearance to better for the audience, and shows clearly who are involved in the film. The italics represent a feminine side and will gives hints on who might begin the opening.

This frame show how the Opening begins. The opening begins with the female protagonist on her journey to college and a tracking shot is showing at this point, allowing the audience to follow her on her journey, the voice over, compliments this frame as well as it the audience will get an insight on the female protagonist personality and life and the audience could relate as they will have experienced there first day at school and college and will be able to relate in terms of emotions and feeling of entering school or college on the first day. We decided to film at the end of the road, showing the journey of the protagonist, from this we have subverted the expectations of a romance as the setting may not reflect hugely on the convention, however some aspects such as beginning the opening with the female protagonist.

The frame shows an aspect in which will hint the audience on the genre of the film. The medium shot of the male protagonist entering in the room allows the audience to show that he glances at the female protagonist and gives the audience an immediate hint that there will be a connection between the two main protagonists,leaving an enigma code for the audience to find out more about them and there relationship. The convention would relate to this situations as the both male and female protagonist will will have brief meet in the opening, and shows the audience that there may be a development in there relationship.