Evaluation: Question 1

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

At the start of the project we looked at the forms and conventions of film openings, conventions are used to establish a film. It also enables the audience to identify the distributor, cast, directors etc... through the idents, and the credits at the beginning.

We have seen and analysed many different openings ranging from classic to contemporary. We looked at the openings of both; 'The Step Father' and 'The Roommate'  the openings are new enough the same, as they are from the same creators. 

This is the conventional order of the titles that appear in both of the openings;

Production Company Ident
Production & Distribution company titles
Film title
Cast
Casting by
Costume Designer
Music Supervision
Music By
Editor
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Executive Producer
Produced By
Writer
Director

Here are some screengrabs from; 'The Roommate' as you can see the font they used is very simple and clear, this allows the audience read and identify the test easily, throughout the opening the credits will appear in different places instead of the same place over and over again. The arrangement of the text will be placed depending what is in the frame when it appears as they don't want the text to cover certain things on the frame. So thought is put in when placing the text and is not just placed in randomly. The font colour they used is an off-white colour, which stands out against a dark background, however at one point the text appears in the sky, which was also quite white, however they used a shadow effect on the text, this way the writing will be visible.

We chose to follow the same concept as the roommate as it is very simple and clear and looks very sophisticated overall. We did not do everything exactly the same as 'The Roommate' we used a different font and change the alignment of the title above the name.

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