Q1 In what ways does your media products use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
- 1. Q1 In what ways does your media products use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Kevin Darkwah
- 2. Throughout this process we chose ‘Adulthood’ as a real media text to focus on and emulate. We picked this film due to us choosing the social realism genre to base our teaser on. ‘Adulthood’ is a popular and well known example of this genre. As a group we came across different conventions we developing our poster, magazine and teaser.
- 3. Poster We based our poster on the official poster of ‘Adulthood: Tagline Title of film in bold font Ratings and comments from critics, creates a positive buzz around the film Main cast in the center of the poster with titles above their heads Dark urban setting Main character in the front with the supporting characters in back Release date & names of producers, directors etc.
- 4. Magazine cover As a group we decided to base our magazine cover on Empire magazine. We found an issue of Empire that featured ‘trainspotting’ on the front which was a good real media text use since trainspotting is a social realism film Name of magazine in bold red letters to catch the reader’s attention Main character in the dead center covering some of the letters of ‘EMPIRE’ ‘Latest reviews’ to draw in the reader Name of film in bold white letters Info that sells to the reader Barcode Related content & info to persuade audience into picking up mag
- 5. Trailer We studied the conventions of the official ‘Adulthood’ trailer and tried to emulate them in our teaser as much as we could. We noticed key things especially in the way things were ordered: 1. Distribution label comes first 2. Titles are introduced 3. Quick cuts and shots showing off the blurs, fades and transitions 4. Diegetic and non-diegetic sounds play as a series of shots are introduced teasing the plot 5. Trailer ends with title of film in a black background and quick shots of the names are shown also ‘coming soon’. One main thing we noticed and worked on were the titles. The titles were kept consistent throughout the trailer – same font, same size, same colour:
- 6. Trailer We studied the conventions of the official ‘Adulthood’ trailer and tried to emulate them in our teaser as much as we could. We noticed key things especially in the way things were ordered: 1. Distribution label comes first 2. Titles are introduced 3. Quick cuts and shots showing off the blurs, fades and transitions 4. Diegetic and non-diegetic sounds play as a series of shots are introduced teasing the plot 5. Trailer ends with title of film in a black background and quick shots of the names are shown also ‘coming soon’. One main thing we noticed and worked on were the titles. The titles were kept consistent throughout the trailer – same font, same size, same colour: