Evaluation question 1

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

Conventions of film openings 

Title's are important !

At the start of a film there are always titles , they may be overlayed on the screen or on a blank screen either way their always there. How people choose to display their titles is up to them it may :

Be designed to fit in with location 

Simplistic

eye-catching

The title's we chose in our short film are simple we used two locations and had alot going on so wanted to  keep our title's simple.
e.g

Another important issue with title's is, there's an order! 

There is an order in the way title's should be presented however this order can be changed depending on a few variable's, for example having a big name actor in your film  may mean you push them up a bit or if you have multiple production or distribution companies you would list more than one 

Order of titles:

Production indent

Distribution indent

Distributor in title sequence 

production in title sequence 

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 

Director

Evaluation Question 1!

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

First, lets go through the basic:

Here's a little fun clip which gives the definition of conventions (which I made myself of course , with the help of GoAnimate =D):

What is Conventions? (PART 1) by essiem97 on GoAnimate


Now here are some examples:

Coventions (Part 2) by essiem97 on GoAnimate





Conventions can also be seen within the title sequence (bet you didn't know that)!
It is very important that they do follow a strict order. This is because: 

• It's an order that's been used in many other films since the early 1980s!
• The title sequence is used to introduce the MAJOR stars and crew of the film

HERE IS MY EXAMPLE OF A TITLE SEQUENCE
The following is a step by step title sequence of "Can You Keep A Secret?" which was done on TimeToast:




The most memorable bit of my film opening is probably the last little bit of the shovel coming down onto the camera. The whole burying idea was inspired by the film Crossroads, when the three friends were burying their time capsule:

With the help of some pictures.... CROSSROADS:

CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?

 
Despite sharing the same elements of three friends and burying something, the mise en scene of these scenes are extremely different:

• "Can You Keep A Secret?" had a more gloomy dark atmosphere.
• Not much dialogue in "Can You Keep A Secret?" then there was in "Crossroads".
• "Can You Keep A Secret?" and "Crossroads" both hold three main characters. 
• The lighting in "Can You Keep A Secret?" is darker than it is in the "Crossroad" scene (again giving the gloomy effect).
• The characters clothing are very different; "Can You Keep A Secret?" are wearing more modern pieces of clothing.
• The camera angle in "Can You Keep A Secret?" is unusual as the characters are looking down whereas in "Crossroads" it is a wide shot of the three friends. 

Evaluation Question 2!

Question: How does your product represent particular social groups?

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Evaluation: Question 1

Conventions of film openings

This is the order of titles from teen film 'The roommate'. 

The order of titles for our teen film is similar.

Idents... 

 Distribution company

Production company 

 Distribution company

Production company 

Cast

Title

The order of titles can vary a little for example if you have a big name actor or actors in your film then their names would go earlier on in the title sequence. Where the title of the film goes can also vary, otherwise everything else stays the same, for example the director is always the last title and company idents first.

Evaluation question 2

Question : How does your media product represent particular social groups

Social representations 

The characters in can you keep a secrete? 

A lot of the characters representations are influenced by mise en scene and one of the most important factors is appearance,ie  costume and make-up. The Characters clothing in our film helped show the representation of the characters, Georgia wore more edgy clothing which showed her powerful personality whilst Kadey wore smarter and dressier clothes which convey her as more of a innocent character and jasmine wore Casual clothes which helped to emphasis her calm persona. 

If my film was a anime this is a rough interpretation of how the characters would look.

Georgia, Kadey, Jasmine 

Comparison to another Teen film

My obsession with grease has finally paid off! Looking at the characters in this short film I can see a lot of similarities between the characters in the 1970's teen film and characters from my modern day film can you keep a secret?   

Can you keep a secret cast grease understudies

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Comparing the two it appears that  teen social representations haven't changed much in teen film's Just society's opinions.  I think the characters from my teen film and the characters from Grease are really similar.  The reaction to the Grease characters 40 years ago was really negative despite people loving the film.  A lot of people thought the characters were "bad teenagers" because the conventions of the time were stricter In comparison to society today where these teens would be regarded as regular teenagers. I think people have become more understanding throughout the years and have changed alot of their opinions and expectations. 

When I created these characters I didn't intend on trying to represent them in a positive or negative aspect,I just tried to create regular teens which had good and bad qualities. I created normal teenage characters based on peoples interpretations of  teenagers today which are influenced by other teen films and by the  personal opinions of audiences.

Reviewing the film opening i can see how the characters could be interpreted as negative by the audience as they appear to be lying to the authorities in their attempt to cover up a crime 

EVALUATION - Question 1

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

EVALUATION - Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Analysis of feedback:

Our film opening was liked very much in terms of the editing and the characters with different personalities. The characters could be easily related and connected to by others as they are in the same teen age range (16-17) and share similar traits to the audience.