Thursday, 3 March 2011

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



Our opening sequence followed the majority of the conventions that you always see in an opening sequence of a film. We ensured that we revealed the storyline, but so that it was clear for people to understand what was happening. We used titles to introduce the roles and responsibilities that everyone played when we was doing our opening sequence. Like most thriller openings the titles were just bold and white so that they stood out and were clear so they were easy to read.

We used sound effectively in our opening sequence to set the mood of it, and make it seem more interesting; the fact that it was a chase made this very important because it also helps make it clear what the genre of the film is going to be. At the beginning the music was quite slow and eerie to give the audience the impression that something bad was going to happen, but we also set the music so that when the chase began it dropped and helped to set the mood as to what was happening.

We tried to incorporate a lot of different shots so that it was more interesting, but so that the location was clear because we needed to introduce what sort of environment the film was in. This was important because in most films the main location is introduced at the beginning of the film so we needed to make this clear what was happening and where. Also it helped make the storyline clearer because we would not just use a long shot for one part of the chase, we would have a shot of the character running at the camera, then cut to a shot either behind or next to the characters running past, to add more of a variety of shots and to make it clearer about what was happening and make it more interesting.

Another convention we followed was ensuring that the continuity was good. This was very important because if it wasn't continuous and there were jumps in our sequence it would have been very obvious because it was a chase and if we suddenly jumped forwards it would look weird and hard to follow. Making sure that it had good continuity was difficult because we was in a car park so we had to get the filming done in one specific place as quick and well as possible in case a car moved, because this would have been noticable and it would be clear if the characters had then moved in the frame as well.

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