Evaluation question 1

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

Within my group I had the roll of being in charge of mice-en-scene, working alongside Harry who was the director. This meant i had to make sure there was space available for us to film, find locations and I also done the lighting. One particular part that was really good was when we were doing the band shoots, I was playing around with the lighting and seeing which ones i thought would be best for the video and i worked out how to get a spotlight on Harry while everything else is completely dark. This worked very well because it excludes everything happening around him which gives off a feeling that its a live performance and he is the main focus which is what we wanted. This was thought of during the second shoot which means we developed from normal whole band shots into individual shots. In addition to this when doing the outdoor shots of Niamh i suggested to the cinematographer (Tommy) that filming outside in the sun meant that we would get slight sense flares which worked well with the song and its genre. It also meant that it gave the video a little bit of light rather than just being dark throughout.