1) In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms And Conventions Of Real Media Products?
How does your film opening follow the conventions of real film openings?
Whilst watching a professionally made film you will most likely recognize those very distinct idents at the start of the film, these are usually the production company and studio idents, and 9 out of ten times the title will be somewhere at the start unlike the new Deadpool film where the title is at the end of the film but the studio ident and production company is at the start where it should be. Anyway, rather than getting to distracted with such an awesome film I've got evaluate my own film, so where was I?......... Oh yeah idents, in our short 2 minute thriller opening we had our Studio and Production company idents, this follows the conventions of real film openings.
Real Examples........
This is from Jeepers Creepers 2
Within our film we tried to follow the generic conventions as close as we could, for obvious reasons we couldn't afford special effects and make up so we had to go with a more traditional route of having the use of suspense making the audience question. Just who was that? We also had stingers or as some people know them by as jump scares. Now if you have ever watched The Woman In Black with Harry Potter then you'll of definitely been the victim of quite a few jump scares but if you didn't then there is something definitely wrong with you, but anyway as I was saying again with the generic conventions of thrillers you also tend to see places being set in dark dangerous, spooky places and what do you know it just happens to be The Woman In Black was set in a dark dangerous, spooky place. Weird that is right? Well actually it's not, i's just following the generic conventions of a Thriller. This also happen to be the same for what people wear and how they are seen, If there was a scene with a man reading spooky threatening letters sent to a house where he is in charge of the selling Eel Marsh house, and he was wearing a bright orange high vise jacket, it would just not look right one bit and yes that was another example from The Woman In Black, so what Harry Potter was wearing was obviously significant to the film being set in 1889 but it was the choice of dark colors which made it more generic to thrillers because you never really see bright colors in a Thriller. So this fits with our film being that there was no real bright colors used more black and dark grey.
