Friday 20 March 2015
Evaluation - Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop, or challenge forms and convections of real media products?
Conventions
- Convention are recognized ways of doing things within a particular genre
- Conventions give the audience a better understanding of a film and help the audience relate to it better
Film Openings
Film openings are used to establish the storyline of a film, this helps the audience develop a better understanding of what's happening. The credits in film openings tend to go in a specific order, so that people who participated towards the film get regonition.
The order the title credits tend to go in is:
- Production Company Ident
- Distribution Company Ident
- Distribution Company in Title Sequence
- Production Comapany in Tile Sequence
- High Budget Actors/Actresses
- Film Tile
- Actors/Actresses
- Casting
- Custome By
- Music By
- Editded By
- Written By
- Director
Examples
Here are some examples of teen films opening credits
Mean girls (high school film) - Mainstream film
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Ident ‘Paramount’
‘Paramount’ Title
Producer
Main cast
Title
Cast
Casting by
Based on book
Music supervisor
Music
composed and conducted by
Co-producer
Costume
designer
Editor
Production
designer
Director
of photography
Executive
Producer
Producer
Screenplay
by
Director
My Brother The Devil (youth drama) - Independent film
Ident
Film company
Ident
Title of film company
In association with…
Cast
Executive producer
Producers
Written and Directed By
Title
Even though 'Kidulthood' wasn't our main inpiration, its still very similar to our film as they both are urban film. Here is the comparison between our title sequence and 'Kidulthoods' Title sequence.
Jus' Another Day
Kidulthood
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