Evaluation question 1: In what ways does your film use, develop or challenge forms of real media products?
Our film genre is a post apocalyptic horror, usually in this sort of genre there is a realism to it. What I mean by this is that even though the world is over run by zombies (implausible) in the back the viewers mind they're believing that this could actually happen.

Comparison between our film and a real film 28 Days Later

1.Both films use a simple plain white font for their opening credits, although 28 Days Later decides to start them later into the actual film in contrast with our film that starts straight away. The way in which the titles fade in and out slowly goes with the way in which the film opens, we made the opening gradually get more intense to add to the suspense of the film.
2.Both scenes use real life riot footage, this gives it that realism effect. These scenes are used in both clips to show what happened before this disaster has happened, they are not the main part of the films however they are just used to set the scene.
3.The next shot of our film shows the evacuated town center, 28 Days Later also shows an empty city however they have decided to introduce they're main character slightly earlier on. He has just woken up from a coma and because of this he has no idea of what has gone on. This is a very original idea from the director Danny Boyle and I have not seen this in any of the zombie/apocalyptic films that I have watched as research.
4.We then show a car that has been opened and left in an abandoned car park, this is to show that people have had to escape and leave everything behind (even their cars). The next shot from 28 Days Later shows their character walking through an abandoned city center  both shots are used to highlight the fact that all the people have disappeared.
5.For our next shot we showed the back of a pub that had had its back fence smashed down and had been broken into. We did this to give the impression someone or something had broken into get to the people inside. In contrast to this 28 Days Later showed a long shot of London with no people in it, obviously we couldn't do something on the same scale as this as we did not have the resources. The closet we could get to shot like that is by getting up in the early hours which is what we did in shot three.
6.In 28 Days Later the next shot shows the character pick up a news paper with the headline 'EVACUATION' this confirms what we first thought, and shows that London has been evacuated. For our next clip we showed a dog slowly walk past some fencing. We used the dog to show that even though the people had gone animals were still there. We tried to suggest the dog was savaging for food, maybe even people. This would suggest the animals had gone rabid, it would give the impression wild animals were romaing around the empty town like in this I am Legend clip
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOjOoICCRGI
7.In our opening we are now introduced to the main character, slowly walking up in the distance a man in white overalls appears coming over the hills. This is very much like the previous 28 Days Later shots of the lone character walking through the city. Straight away we know this person is going to be important to the film as he is center focus and he is walking through the hills alone.
8.In the next shot our character gets closer to the camera, again confirming he is going to be the main character by the amount of shot time he is getting and that he is in the center of the frame. He is in white overalls and a face mask to suggest he is trying to protect himself from some sort of virus. This means he knows what has happened, unlike the character in 28 Days Later who has no clue what has gone because of the coma. This is why he walks into the deserted church, which unbeknownst to him is filled with corpses.
9. Our final shot shows the title of the film, again in simple block writing however this time it is written in large red font instead. We did this to show the veiwer how important the name of the film was, and that it must be related in some way to our main character. 28 Days Later does not do this and carries on with the film showing their character walking into the church.

I think that as you can tell from this our film is quite similar to 28 Days Later so it does go along with the classic post apocalypse film conventions, however we have differences and individual selling points which would make our target audience want to come and see the film.