Evaluation Question 1:

In what ways does your media product use, devel

op or challenge forms and conventions of real m
edia products?

Title of the film: The Dogs

The Dogs is the name of our film and it is

presented in this text. Having the title towards
the end of the opening sequence is a typical
convention of an action genre. Also the nondiegetic music had corresponded with the title.

Costumes and Props

In terms of costume the Dogs and the Ballers

wear dark clothing as they want to look as
incognito as possible also some people in the
gang wear masks to cover their identity such as
Robert, Billy and Chief.
These are generic conventions of an action genre
as these two gangs are represented as typical
gangs in the majority gang related films.
For props we had used typical objects such as
guns, money, phone and masks these props
allowed us to represent the action genre in our
film.

Genre

Our chosen Genre for our opening sequence is

action. This Genre as was chosen as group and
we came to this conclusion as we all had an
interest in the action genre. Also this genre had
easy conventions to follow such as violence and
fast paced action.
Our opening sequence suggests this genre
through the use of intense non-diegetic music
which is very typical in the majority of action
films.

Setting/Location

We used two locations- a living room which

represented as a safe house and we had also
used outside of the house. From researching
major films such as inside man and safehouse,
both of these locations seemed like generic
conventions for an action genre. The living room
was perfect due to the location being plain which
helped use portray the action genre.

Camerawork& Editing

We used generic camera shots and movements

such as panning and (extreme) close ups as
these help to focus on detail and keep the action
moving.
A lot of close ups were used to show the facial
expression of our actors, with the editing we used
a variety of different shots and movements as
you would see in action films such as tracking
and, for editing techniques we had used
continuity editing, match on action and eye line
match.

Storyline

Our basic narrative is based on some of our favourite

action films such as Inside man and Safe house.
In the beginning of the sequence it starts of as the
Dogs celebrating the heist and while they celebrate
they had been suddenly attacked by a rival gang
named the Ballers. It had ended up being a standoff
between the two rivals, it had seemed like it was
going to be the end of the Dogs as they were
cornered but unexpectedly Robert had appeared and
started to shower the Ballers with bullets. So Robert
had saved his gang and had protected the money
that they had stole.

Characters

The Dogs, the protagonist are all presented in the

beginning, Hal and Joe are the mastermind twins
who were in charge of the money and Billy and
Chief are celebrating the heist with drinks. Robert
is outside segregating himself from the group so
he could message his daughter.
Soon after the audience will see the antagonist
the Ballers, their names are unknown to the
audience which leaves a sense of mystery.

Special effects

We used special effects to enhance the sense of

the action genre. We had used a green screen to
produce bullet holes on the wall during the gun
fight between the Dogs and the Ballers.