Evaluation 1

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

 As a group we decided that our film “Glove Man” would be based on the American, Hollywood superhero films. We therefore had to keep our film as close as possible to what you would expect from a stereotypical Hollywood or even just superhero film but with what we had. We chose to use a variety of different camera shots which are commonly used in a superhero film. We tried to keep a lot of the props or styles that you would expect but at the same time having a purposely budget costume to emphasise the fact that our character is a schoolboy and not an actual superhero, it was therefore also easier for us as a group to get the things that were required. We achieved this by giving our character really basic clothing items such as a hoodie and of course gloves, which the ones we used are the sort commonly used in paintball. Our focus, or inspiration, for our characters costume was things such as Red Hood from the upcoming Batman Arkham Knight video game, Green Arrow from the CW TV Series Arrow and also Kick-Ass from both the film and the graphic novels This was due to the fact that it has the same form of narrative and that the main characters costume from Kick-Ass is also not specifically designed and has just been adapted. We also tried to make sure that the fonts and positioning of the credits that we chose worked both with the film and with the genre. We therefore did research into the fonts used in various superhero films from both the Marvel and DC franchises. we watched various title sequences from the films and also ended up choosing a font that is very similar to the font used in the Thor films. we however edited it so that most people would not make the connection between the two fonts and think that we have just copied it. In terms of our main focus for what our film would be based on it would be The Dark Knight trilogy in terms of the slightly dark mysterious setting and colours and music but also combining this with Kick-Ass due to the fact that our character is pretending to be a superhero. We did however try to add an element of humour to our film which strongly goes against most DC films, especially The Dark Knight, but very often conforms to a lot of Marvel films and also Kick-Ass. The element of humour was also based on the film Kingsman: The Secret Service which is not a superhero film but does however have the element of comedy that we wanted to achieve.