Evaluation - Q1

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

The convention of a film opening will consist of

After analysing many different film openings, we realise that the conventions of film titles consist of

• Production company identity
• Production company titles
• Production and distribution company
• Film title
• Casting
• Costume
• Music Supervisor 
• Music by
• Editor
• Production design
• Director of photography
• Writer
• Director

The order of the titles may vary due to different genre of film, so this is not a set order but more or less on the same line. 

In our opening, we challenged the conventions of film titles. This is because we do not use many titles other than the main ones as well as changing the typical order.

The first title was the production companies which were City and Islington College and CANDIStudios. We chose to use the production company first to give credit to them.

The title that came after was the Director. Most opening would have the directors name last as they are main person that contribute ideas to the film. However we chose to put it second as it the director is just as important as the production and distribution companies. Soon after the director was the editor and the music producer, we decided to go in order of importance.

We then included the actresses. 

Last but not least the title of out film. We went against the idea of importance at the end. As the film title is just ans important as the rest but we also went against the typical convention of titles by putting the title last.

Our film opening also consist of music/sound. The sound in our opening was an eerie room sound. Which created suspense as all you hear is a humming sound. We also added a typewrite to emphasize the titles in the film.

Overall our opening went against the convention of an opening. This is because it is a discrete opening that does not reveal the plot to the audience but gives them a sense of what genre it is. Our opening was based around a chess board which portrayed our main character life as a game. We also did not reveal the character to the audience but only gave close up. 

On the other hand our opening uses intertextuality, this is done by the opening being black and white, the hand tapping on the table and the chessboard. The ideas came from Psycho, Drag me to hell, Harry Potter and X-Men.

The chessboard

The hand