Evaluation Question 1

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



I feel that my film opening sequence shows that I know all of the conventions what you need for an opening sequence, as I have included many of them. These include: film title, credits, a production company logo and cast and crew info. All of these things have been added into our opening sequence to make it look as professional as possible, and is if it were to be a real film opening sequence.


The conventional opening sequence elements I have chosen for my opening sequence are; production logo, film title, cast and crew info, credits, edited colours font etc., and actors who suit the characters they are supposed to be playing. Without these things i feel that the opening sequence would look very poor and amateurish


For my group's opening sequence there aren’t really any general unconventional elements that we have chosen to include. The reasoning for this is because one of my group’s main focuses was to try and make the video look as professional as possible, so trying to make unconventional elements fit into a video of where everything else is conventional of that of a thriller film would have been a hard task and could have lowered the quality of the piece.


The conventional elements of thriller films (the genre of my opening sequence) are of those which I have already listed, but there is more such as tension building music, an actor shown to be a villain, a scary setting and dark and dull colours used throughout. These conventions can be seen in the opening sequences of well known- thriller films such as “se7en” and “reservoir dogs”.


We chose generic conventions such as a production company logo to try and make the opening sequence look as normal in comparison to real film opening sequences. Some of the conventional elements that were used are to make the clip look like an actual opening sequence opposed to it looking like a trailer, this is something which is commonly seen in The as media opening sequences.

We chose to put in music from beethoven as it sets the tone of the opening sequence and gives the clip more of a romantic feel to it, as the clip is supposed to be of two people on a date. The music also give an eary, creepy feel to the scene and it sets the tone. music can be seen as a typical convention of a thriller film opening sequence, mainly to build tension and set the tone.

All of these conventions can be seen in my opening sequence which is shown here bellow.