Evaluation Question 1

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

Before Sophie and I created our final products for our media product we researched into great detail, what we wanted to achieve. A lot of our video was focused on the music video 'Love the way you lie' by Rihanna and Eminem. (Click Link to View).
http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelHwf8o7_U

Media Conventions Include:


Illustrating the lyrics Expressive lighting Lip SynchingInnovative effectsMise en sceneGenre/tone

Illustrating the lyrics:

The lyrics of the song had a great impact on the video. Repeated through out the song, was Don't let go, never give up its a wonderful life. When it was this part of the song the scenes that were shown were memories in black and white, then cut to a colour scene of arguing.

This is the first chorus, where you can see a black and white memory then flicking to an argument scene where Matt pushes me in the car.




This scene worked perfectly for the lyrics and she throws at the wall, and kisses burn like fire. We filmed this scene with the intention of putting it there and changing it to black and white to become a memory, which has worked really effectively.








This scene was for and he takes her in his arms and he thinks she begins to see. Again this scene shows Matt holding me in his arms which fits with the lyrics




Having the lyrics there, was like a guide, it made filming a lot easier as we could always do what the lyrics say if we were stuck for ideas.

Regarding the love the way you lie music video, we have made similar scenes to that.

This kissing scene is very similar to the love the way you lie video. Both couple are against the wall, and you can clearly see the passion between the couples.

Here is a clear fighting scene between a couple, which we again used from there video. Both girls are pushing the boy away from them, and both boys stand there and do not fight back.

Both scenes here, are the boys from our video and love the way you lie video. Both shots are close ups, and you can see the anger that both characters are showing.

By using love the way you lie as our video to help us for ideas, i believe this was the perfect choice. Both songs are about love, and both videos i believe represent it in a clear way. From using the video it has benefited us greatly, especially when we were stuck for ideas we was able to get inspiration from this video.