Evaluation Question 1

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

 Our media Film product features a young black boy who tries to cover up the horrible death of his drug abusing mother. He then becomes homeless. Numb has a prominent sense of truth and represents the amount of young people homeless in the UK because of difficult home lives. Our product challenges the medias usual representation of young people in London as it shows the life of the homeless. However it does conform somewhat because it shows the issues the ethnic community deal with.

When deciding on the genre of the product, we looked at different statistics too find out which was the most popular in previous years. After research we found that the thriller and horror were the most popular amongst the genres. We also found from our own personal questionnaires that those genres were very popular amongst a younger/teenage audience. Our product is a hybrid of thriller and drama, because of this we knew it would attract a large target audience and would bring a sense of reality to the younger viewers and maybe even be relatable to them.

Existing product : Nocturnal animals

We took inspiration from the colours of this opening title.

Before the movie begins, the red colours in the title tell the audience that the film could be associated with death because of the red colours link too blood. By establishing this at the start I established It would draw in the audience more than a simple title sequence . This is a common feature in thriller movies therefore this inspired our title sequence.

As this scene uses block colours on a large scale we can tell the movie is a high budget production. Although because our movie had a low budget we had to use natural lighting and familiar scenes, which then added to the realism that we were trying to achieve in our project. From research we found that numerous physiological thrillers use this same effect if they have a budget. However in lower budget movies like ours low key natural lighting has too be used.