Monday, 25 February 2013
Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
There are eight conventions of an opening sequence. These conventions include an establishing shot, equilibrium and disequilibrium, titles, giving the audience clues, prompting them to ask questions, establishing the mood or theme, soundtrack and using a Distributer Logo and a Production Company Logo. These conventions are used to set the mood for the film and to encourage them to carry on watching the film to find out answers to the questions that they are asking themselves about the film. An example of a film which uses these conventions is 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose' to set the theme for the film and to make the audience worried about the characters due to the fact that it is a horror film so there is a likely chance that they are in danger. The mood is set by the use of titles written in a red colour which represents blood and danger. Our opening sequence also uses titles with a red font to show that the first two characters that the audience see are in danger.
Our opening sequence is part of a horror film. The conventions that we use are titles, disequilibrium, establishing the mood or theme with a soundtrack, giving the audience clues and prompting them to ask questions. These conventions were used to make the audience continue watching the film to find out what happens and to make them nervous about what is going to happen to the characters seen in the opening sequence and characters seen later on in the film. The convention of prompting the audience to ask questions is also seen in the opening sequence of 'Brick' where they are prompted to ask questions about how the girl died and what the boy had to do with her death. The convention of prompting the audience to ask questions was seen in our opening sequence when the body of the dead girl was seen. This shot would have prompted the audience to ask how she died and what the two characters would do.
We have developed the convention of using equilibrium or disequilibrium by making a bad event happen at the beginning of the film. The disequilibrium in the opening sequence was that the body of a girl was found and the couple also ended up getting attacked. This also develops the convention of the horror genre because at the beginning of a horror, there is disequilibrium instead of equilibrium. This is seen in the opening sequence of 'Resident Evil: Afterlife' where the man was attacked by the demon at the beginning during the opening sequence. This shocks the audience and encourages them to watch more of the film to find out how or if equilibrium is restored in the end. We chose to develop this convention because the disequilibrium would set a dark, dangerous and scary mood to the film which will encourage the audience to worry about the characters and hope that nothing will happen to them. It also sets them up for the horror film where there will be a lot of danger and death.
Our opening sequence is part of a horror film. The conventions that we use are titles, disequilibrium, establishing the mood or theme with a soundtrack, giving the audience clues and prompting them to ask questions. These conventions were used to make the audience continue watching the film to find out what happens and to make them nervous about what is going to happen to the characters seen in the opening sequence and characters seen later on in the film. The convention of prompting the audience to ask questions is also seen in the opening sequence of 'Brick' where they are prompted to ask questions about how the girl died and what the boy had to do with her death. The convention of prompting the audience to ask questions was seen in our opening sequence when the body of the dead girl was seen. This shot would have prompted the audience to ask how she died and what the two characters would do.
We have developed the convention of using equilibrium or disequilibrium by making a bad event happen at the beginning of the film. The disequilibrium in the opening sequence was that the body of a girl was found and the couple also ended up getting attacked. This also develops the convention of the horror genre because at the beginning of a horror, there is disequilibrium instead of equilibrium. This is seen in the opening sequence of 'Resident Evil: Afterlife' where the man was attacked by the demon at the beginning during the opening sequence. This shocks the audience and encourages them to watch more of the film to find out how or if equilibrium is restored in the end. We chose to develop this convention because the disequilibrium would set a dark, dangerous and scary mood to the film which will encourage the audience to worry about the characters and hope that nothing will happen to them. It also sets them up for the horror film where there will be a lot of danger and death.
Thursday, 14 February 2013
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