EVALUATION

EVALUATION

QUESTION ONE: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of a real media product ?

I looked at and studied quite a few different styles of opening title sequences (from popular hollywood films to lesser known films), to pick what makes a title sequence a title sequence? and look out for all the elements that need to be in an opening sequence, so i could use them on my own production, because i wanted the audience to know it was the opening to a film and not just a scene from the middle of the film.
I picked out thing such as the text, there was always somr form of writing usually stating the actors, the director and the title of the film, the main character was usually introduced but never normally speaks until after the title sequence, and not alot was revaled about the storyline or narrative.
There was only two main styles of opening title sequence. The first is the audience seeing the actors or locations, and the story is going on behind the text or the text pops up every now and then. The second is a more abstracted title sequence where the audience dont see actors or settings (or if thy do, they usually have an effect on them, or are sillohuetted); so they are much in the style of Saul Bass' work (this style makes the title sequence much more of a feature and seperate to the film)
My title sequence, i feel, stays mainly to the conventions of a real title sequence because it includes all the basics and all the things that i noticed when watching other title sequences. Although i think i have challenged or changed them slightly. My sequence begins by showing my main character at the end of the film, then i went back to the beggining of the story.