Evaluation part 4- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our title sequence has aimed to use the typical codes and conventions of the spy sub-genre in order to be instantly recognisable and clear when audiences watch it. We attempted to achieve this by using conventional locations, sound, costumes and props.

The props used were picked because of their conventional value. We created a number of our own props such as the investigation wall and newspaper articles. We thought the wall was an extremely useful prop as it was very conventional of the genre. As a group we all put our ideas for conventional props together and it was predominantly my role to make the final choice of the props used, although the others still had input.



The soundtrack used was a very action like piece of music. Myself and Ghanshyam from our group were predominantly involved in the choice and research of this soundtrack and eventually we found one on YouTube, which was copyright free (as mentioned in the spec). We ultimately decided on this soundtrack as we felt it was suitable for our piece in terms of structure and the way it progressed and flowed. We also felt it suited the genre and conformed to the conventions our chosen genre. However, we did originally pick a different soundtrack. However our class feedback suggested it made our piece seem like a comedy and didn't suit the genre well. Therefore we decided to research more into a new soundtrack and this ultimately led us to the one we chose.

The setting of the majority of our shots were London. We chose London because of its heritage and iconic landmarks such as Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. It is also where the MI6 building is situated and this is where the main narrative of our film revolves around.


The typography used we felt was conventional. We picked the "neuropol" font as we felt it looked very conventional and much like a typical spy film. Our initial research of fonts came up with a few results:



However, we felt that the Neuropol font was the best and most conventional of them all. Our teachers also felt this and a lot of our feedback from the class also reflected the view that the first font on our rough edit wasn't conventional and didn't suit the genre as a whole.