Question 1

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

A convention of film openings is an order of the way the film is introduced to the audience. It often contains credits, Production Company and a way to introduce the main characters.

The order of most film openings would be as the following:

1.Title
2.We see the production and film company logos
3.List of credits directors and actor’s
4.Establishing shots
5.Shots to show location for example many shots at beginning of       film show a sky view of a cityscape.
6.Introducing the main characters

And classic opening would be:

Begin with long opening credits then:
1.City scape
2.Close up t in on one of the buildings
3.Close up of a window
4.Going into the room
5.Meet the characters

A title sequence is where the cast and crew involved in the production are listed. These usually come on one by one at a constant pace throughout the opening of the film. They are presented in different fonts and colours and some might also have effects.

We decided to go with the normal opening but to do a few sequences differently. The real media opening convention we decide to follow was step father an thriller film about a physco killer which pretends to be an nice person and ends up killing the family he slyly makes his way into. Our film and stepfather are both narrative openings. It tells the audience a little about the film.

Here is our opening compared to the stepfather which I cut up to show certain parts of the titles and convention.

As you can see from the short clip that there was some similarities in the sequence between both and differences.