Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
For our course work we had created a Thriller opening that covered a series of shots found common in a thriller opening. We had to make sure ours remained normal through following the conventions of openings and conventions of title sequences.
Our Media Product can be seen as a strict follower of all types of conventions when thinking about what is used and what takes place in a thriller. Firstly I will be discussing the conventions of film openings. There are many forms and conventions of Thriller openings but one thing the Film opening must achieve is the setting of the location, also the opening in many films is used to distinguish and introduce the characters, although the opening crucially should not give away the plot the characters must be identified. We as a group had looked at and analysed the opening of the thriller Arlington road which was a thriller that had our interest due to the series of distinguished and effective jump shots and action shots. We researched the Title sequence also but decided to challenge there idea of an edgy title sequence with a normal white text with black background Title sequence.
This brings me on to the conventions of the thriller genre films and particularly what we expect from a thriller genre film. Firstly we would expect to see blood in a thriller however this mainly depends on the sub genre, Displays of blood will be visible amongst a psychological thriller or even a horror thriller. Secondly the Protagonists should be a normal person in other words an 'average joe', this is an effect of the dominant ideology and its affect in media products protagonists never have a powerful role in society, we saw this in real media products such as 'My brother The Devil'. Also it is important that thriller genre films shall build tension through Jump cuts, Over shoulder shots, P.O.V shots and mainly importance can be outlined through low and high angle shots. For our personal thriller and media product we had chosen the sub genre of a psychological thriller, the conventions of a psychological thriller was that disorientated shots was a must to create confusion. Again we outline arlington road as it matched our sub genre, we highlighted a series of collateral shots that were mirrored in our prelim also which again was a psychological thriller. Inconsistent of again edgy title sequences with a disorientated font as well as size. At this point we decided not to be ambigous with our title sequence and remain consistent.
before even recording our media product we had to outline all conventions but we needed confirmation on the convention of the title sequences, we used many methods to get used to we wrote it down, put pieces together in order and much more. In a title sequence we expect to see the director and editor being credited as well as the distributor and producers. This is the order in which it is expected the title sequence should come in.
- Production icon
- Distributor icon
- Production in title sequence
- Distributor in title sequence
- director executive producer
- Actor 1
- Actor 2
- Film title
- Actor 3
- Actor 4
- Actor 5 etc..
- Casting
- Costume
- Music supervisor
- Music by
- Edited by
- Production designer
- Director of photography
- Executive Producers
- Written by
- Directed by
The title of the film is argued to be the main thing and it usually comes after around the 7th or 8th Text on the sequence, usually t is there for about 3 to 5 seconds. In terms of how long all titles are on the screen it is usually for about 3 seconds but this can vary depending on the suspense and tension levels on a thriller opening. As discussed before we had analysed Arlington road and after deciding as a group that the conventions point towards a psychological thriller we had connected that to the fact that the title sequences were worn out and edgy to match the image as well as the sound of the opening.
To conclude we must look at our personal media product and how it compares to the actual pieces of real media such as with Arlington road and Psycho. Here are a few print screens of still shots from the opening of Arlington road and our very own Thriller. This will clearly show how we used intertextuality in our Thriller. I have used Camtasia to put together a slideshow style presentation that covers and compares our very own opening to Arlington Road, also i have recorded myself explaining whether or not we chose to replicate or challenge its conventional ideas.
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