In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (ie of film openings)

Camera work and editing were important in our opening two minutes of footage, we used a lot of different camera angles and shots. We wanted to get quick cuts to give the effect on an action film and make it look more stereotypical. We used many different shots, over the shoulder, zoom in and out, panning shots, high angle shots and low shots. All these different types of shots when making our film. The photos above show a few different shots that we got, for example a pan shot was used to film the car speeding past, whereas a low angle shot was used to show me approaching the destination. Probably the most extreme camera shot that we had to was when we shot footage of the car speeding down the windy roads but from the back, so all you could see was the road behind. What we did for this shot was one of us lay down in the boot, with the boot door open filming as the car was going along. Even though this shot was pretty dangerous to attempt, we were both really pleased with the results that we produced. Another shot that was very effective was the high angle shot right at the end when you see me knocking on the door. Right from the beginning, me and Oli had our minds set on finishing the opening two minutes with a CCTV style shot and we executed this shot very well. The original shot was just filmed from a high angle but it was the effects that we added in after in editing that made it look very effective. As there wasn't a specific CCTV effect that could be placed in editing, we decided to give it a go ourselves. All that was eventually needed was to change the frame to black and white, and then add in text to make the shot look as if it was filmed from a CCTV camera. This was our only special effect that we used throughout the 2 minutes but we thought it looked very realistic. The CCTV shot can be seen in the photos above.