Question 1
- 1. Question 1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
- 2. • We have created a film opening following the genre romantic-comedy, with a target audience of teenagers. Throughout the opening we used simplistic features, such as titles. This created an effective opening thus following the rom-com genre. • We researched and analysed other film openings that followed our genre, and noted down information such as what titles show first, how long they stay on the screen for and how they are used. When editing our opening and putting the titles in the research from ‘The art of the title’ website helped us create a well balanced filming to title balance.
- 3. Dictionary title The first scene the audience see is a the definition of ‘serendipity’. We used this for a number of reasons, the definition has the name of the movie ‘An accidental discovery’ within it, hinting to the audience and linking them together towards the end of the opening. Also we got the idea of the typing animation effect from the beginning of the film ‘500 days of summer’, the opening incorporates generic conventions with help from the titles.
- 4. Turnerfield Productions • Turnerfield productions is the first title to be seen, it is in a different font to the other titles in order to make it stand out, and to create a well known name. It is also shown twice, this is to reinforce the productions name, and is done by many different production companies.
- 5. Starring • We decided to put the main characters starring titles in the opening of the film, this is one of the main titles as it is where the split screen disappears, giving the audience chance to focus on each main character. Also the shot of the female character shows the male character in the background. Hinting to the audience there will be possible interaction
- 6. Split screen • The use of the split screen adds mystery to the opening, the audience see the two characters but never see them interact, also the use of dark titles and no dialouge make the audience start to build their own story up, until the end of the opening were the split screen becomes one screen and the two characters are sat next to each other. This challenges the conventions of this genre, adding a twist to the end.