Thursday, 3 May 2012

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


In my opening title sequence we incorporated generic conventions by using low key lighting, this is commonly used in thriller title sequences as it engages the audience and makes them focus. We used it this in nearly all the scenes however we mainly used it in the last scene. Having low key lighting creates suspense and mystery. Making the kidnapper anonymous also creates mystery as the audience haven't been introduced to him.  The camera work and editing meet the conventions to a thriller film as we have a verity angles. The jump cut is a good editing as it doesn’t show me walking down all the stairs which could be boring for the audience to watch.
The opening to our trailer Revenge challenge the conventions to a thriller opening because there is action in the beginning of it, where I got kidnapped by Lamarr. Whereas thriller title sequences don’t usually have action they build on mystery
I believe that the conventions of my thriller opening sequence indicate what sub-genre it is. I think this as we have met a lot of the expectation thriller opening sequences include. However I think that it could be crossed with drama alongside thriller. When I showed our sequence to a student they agreed with what I thought and there reasons for this was because of our location props story and how the opening set all was naturalistic so this built suspense as they didn’t know what was going to happen because everything seemed natural that is all part of the build up and thrill.
Through out my research I looked a director David flincher  his work helped me with a few ideas. My most inspiration cam from my analysis on three thriller title sequences. From drag me to hell, I liked the idea of how it showed the location at the starts so that the audience knew that it was based in the city. What I took from this title sequence was the naturalistic aspect of it. At the beginning of all of the thriller sequences I looked at they all started with their everyday life. We included this aspect in our work by three girls having a sleep over watching a scary film waiting for there Chinese delivery to arrive. The music in all of the title sequences had a big impact on the reaction the audience would have.  I noticed that the camera angles most of the time allowed the audience to see what was going on in the background therefore they used a lot of mid shots and long shots, as well as close ups. When we recorded we was influenced by the effective camera angles had on the audience so we used a variety of the most effective camera angles.

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