Evaluation: 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

1. This first shot is from ‘Shaun of the Dead’ where Shaun’s girlfriend Liz is fed up of always meeting at the same pub and wants more time with just the two of them. The character Shaun has a dead end job where no one takes him seriously and is now willing to change his life around which fits in with our character David from ‘Chances’.

2. This is a shot of the character Russel from ‘Sliding Doors’. On early drafts of the script the character Neil from ‘Chances’ was based on Russel because of the conversations in the pub relationship issues. Even now with Gwen you can still see some similarities however Gwen is a more sympathetic and understanding character.

3. This is a still from the end of the movie ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’. The part of the film was building up when Charles was looking for Carrie and then it finished with them kissing so it was building up for more aniticipation which is what we wanted for ‘Chances’. We wanted the whole film to build up to this moment at the end to build up the aniticipation from when David found Amy.

4. This is from the film ‘Gangs of New York’. It’s the character Jenny who tries to implore Amsterdam to escape to San Francisco together and after deciding not to go looks for Amsterdam just like when David looks for Amy.

5. This is from ‘Gavin and Stacey’ the song ‘Run’ by Stephen Fretwell is played during the title sequence and is the sort of sad slow guitar playing we would like in ‘Chances’

6. This shot is also from Gavin and Stacey and is the character Nessa. She looks at things the way they are and so called off the wedding because she did love or got on better with someone else. The character Gwen is roughly based upon Nessa to look at the reality of the situation.

7. This is a publicity still from the sitcom ‘Peep Show’. This show uses only POV shots which had shown how effective and useful it can be which influenced us to use a few POV shots in scene 11 when David is being fired.

8. This is a shot from the film ‘Love Actually’ where again there was a romantic climax which was built up which we wanted to use for ‘Chances’.

9. This is a screenshot from ‘Sliding Doors’ where the idea of two parallel storylines crossing eachother influenced us from the beginning which then later gave us the idea of ‘Chances’. Where we used the idea of parallel lives but with two different people who love eachother, that way we can still compare the two lives.

Below is the corresponding shot board with stills from our film, numbered to mirror the descriptions above.

Shot 1: David apologises for his wrongdoings after years away.

Shot 2: David and Gwen discuss his mistakes and what to do now.

Shot 3: David bites the bullet and calls Amy on the way to find her.

Shot 4: David sets out to find her again, boarding a train that will take him back to his past.

Shot 5: The opening shot of the film, as David’s alarm clock gives him an unwelcome awakening.

Shot 6: Gwen demonstrates some common sense.

Shot 7: David gets an unwelcome surprise in the shape of involuntary redundancy.

Shot 8: Amy makes her decision.

Shot 9: …and David lets her go.