Evaluation - In What Way Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

I believe my film challenges and uses the forms and conventions of real media products through everything in my film opening.

I believe that my opening challenges the forms of real media products through the mise-en-scene among other things. By shooting my film in black and white with red titles it challenges the stereotypical mainstream film, I feel that my opening is not what you’d expect from a mainstream film and so uses the “art-house” theme and fits in with that type of film and challenges the mainstream perception of thrillers and films focusing around serial killers if that is how the audience interprets my piece. Also my film opening uses the classic view of a femme fatal character with her demeanour and general on screen presence. Her costume and make up reflects this as it is in red as many people associate the colour red with blood and this is what I was trying to come across in my opening, a sense of foreboding.

The way in which I use forms and conventions of real media products is through my sound, I use non-diegetic sound in my opening. This is usually the case in film openings, most openings consist of a montage of shots and a song over the top, and this is what my opening is like also. However, a way in which my opening develops the convention of an opening sequence is that I use photo’s within my opening sequence, the images of the men with their faces circled and crossed out. Photo’s aren’t usually used in openings of films, if they are they aren’t usually used with clips as well. There are some opening sequences which use images for example the opening of “Letters to Juliet” this films uses images as an opening, although it is not the same genre of film. However, it does not intercut the images with clips as my opening does.