Evaluation- Question 1

Evaluation
Q1. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
For my coursework I made a mystery thriller with Sian Smallman and Emily Geraghty, we named it "The Last Detail" as it blends it with the plot of the opening as I'm getting stalked in the library and that someones watching me. During my time on working towards making my own thriller opening, I kept a record of everything I learned and have done on a blog, this has kept me well up-to-date with my work, reminded me my deadlines, and has left me well structured. Before making our own thriller opening, we had to make a prelim to get us organised and ready for the official thing, this has taught me how to use the camera's properly, how to edit and how to input sound; they were very vital in making the thriller opening.
Most commonly we expect to see the production and distribution company logo first in most openings of a film; it is rare to not have the production or distribution company logo name come up in the opening of a film. After that, the name of the film tends to come up at third place in the convention orders, straight after the production and distibution company logo. Moreover, then it is followed by the main set locations (this could be done using a wide shot) then protagonist (main character). The opening of a film should draw the audience in, making them want to watch the rest of the film, and it should set the mood/atmosphere; this is mostly done by using music. However, after they are drawed in, the name of the director should appear, then the names of the main characters, names of the editor, costumer designer, and who the music was done by and so on... Each credit should be approximetly 3-5 seconds long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BROZYppqsf8

This film opening too thriller 'Arlington Road' portrays some of these conventions, it introduces the protagonist, it uses music to create a suspense atmosphere and it introduces the setting of the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cifPv4QWTH0 

This is the opening trailer of the film 'Memento'. However, the opening sequence lasts for one minute and 50seconds and in this opening you can see many of the things I have listed above, such as: the name of the film and music to help set the atmosphere and mood.

Furthermore, there a few type of film openings, they are laid out in different ways and are used in specifically for specific types of genres for films. one type of film opening is a discrete one this gives quite a sinister atmosphere and kind of foreshadows the film with clues a good example of this is se7en.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k2gsEI34CE

It is quite dark gloomy and gives us a idea that the movie is to do with someone with some sort of mental condition. The sound is very thrilling and sets the mood with its deep sounds. The handwriting font to show the names and the production group is quite smart. It gives us  few ideas maybe about the persons past or his current job.

Another title sequence is the conventional one. This is a more traditional one where the cast is in order and there is not many special effects or special scenes to make it stand out extremely compared to other ones, however they usually have a shot of the landscape to make the audience understand where they are or where the movie is relating to. In the movie psycho there is a shot of the landscape in the opening sequence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Tek8QmKRODw

There are loads of types of genres, for example: action, adventure, comedy, crime, erotica, faction, fantasy, historical, horror, mystery, paranoid, philosophical, political, romance, saga, satire, science fiction, slive of live, specualative, thriller, urban and many more... We done thriller. 

Each type of genre falls in to each differenty categories which have different sub-genres in them for example: romantic comedy, action adventure, crime thriller, disaster thriller, supernatural thriller, techno thriller, comedy thriller, musical comedy and many more... We done mystery thriller. 

After doing all my research for conventions of openings, conventions of thriller genre films and conventions of title sequences, I have made sure my own thriller opening matchs with the real life products, so it looks more realistic. For example, I made sure my titles/credits, we all in order each 3-5 seconds long, made sure the tone of the music blends in with the plot of the mystery thriller, and made sure that our mystery thriller sticks to the sub-genre.