Evaluation question 1

I do believe that my media product develop the codes and conventions of short films, as when I have researched short films the codes and conventions are:

Short films usually only have one or two main characters: My product only has two main actors through out the whole film, we kept this convention as we felt wanted to keep our film simple so our audience would be able to understand it.

Short films usually last 1-5 minutes: My media product 4 minutes 23 seconds, so we do not challenge, We found it a struggle to gain the extra seconds as we are so new and inexpereienced with creating our own short film.

Short films always have a twist in the end: My product shows that it meets the codes and conventions, as when our main actor opens the wallet he discovers that it is empty which the audience was not expecting, we did this as we wanted to leave the audience wanting to know more.

Not much dialogue in short films: We kept this convention, as when we were planning our film our teachers emphasised the importance of minimsing dialogue, as we are being assessed on our range of camera skills, not the actual plot in our film.

Voice overs are highly used in short films: My media product challenged this convention, as we wanted to make it seem urban that it why we used urban background music, however a voice over could have been used in our product.