This is a PowerPoint talking about the conventions I have looked at and included in my film opening. It is as interactive as possible and includes pictures and music. It talks about saving private Ryan Forrest Gump and goal II.

1. Conventions
The group who made the film opening named ‘Cohen’.

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

3. What was the Genre?

4. The genre we used was…..
Sport Drama

5. What films inspired your genre and how?

6. Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan Cohen

7. Ideas were developed from the opening of Saving Private Ryan by…
• Incorporating the idea of an elderly man remembering previous
events.
• The shots used for the man walking. (Our opening shot is the same as
the opening shot of the first character in Saving Private Ryan).
• The music was also inspiration for the emotive piece we used over
the top of the scene.
• The film inspired our genre because it is an extremely dramatic film
and we already had an idea for an old man.

8. Forrest Gump

9. Ideas were developed from the opening of Forrest Gump by…
• Looking at the font and font colour to show the elegance of the
scene.
• The music in the opening scene of Forrest Gump is very emotive and
we wanted to imitate this.(Music at bottom of screen)
• The idea was also similar in the sense that there is a man thinking
back on his life.
CohenSaving Private Ryan

10. Goal I and II

11. Idea’s were developed from the films ‘Goal!’ And ‘Goal II’…
• The poster for our film was inspired by Goal! as shown on the slide
before, we decided to go with a similar close up version of a shot of a
football player with he back turned.
• The poster we looked at has a football in so we incorporated it into
ours to show it was a sport (Football) film.
• We looked at the film Goal II when deciding on what order to put the
titles in.
• We also used the same production company as the Goal films.

12. In what ways did your film opening differ to
that of the ones you looked at?

13. • In Goal II the opening dives straight into the action being a sport film.
However, despite our film being of the sport genre we considered it
to be more of a Drama so we avoided using real footballing footage.
• Forrest Gump’s titles come in over an establishing shot over a city our
shot doesn’t do this is uses a short establishing shot after the title of
the film appears. This was because we didn’t want the title to detract
from the drama of the opening.
• Our opening is different from the conventions of Saving Private Ryan
as our opening includes titles during the very opening but this film
doesn’t as it would have taken away from the drama of the scene. We
had to include the titles here as our film opening was so short.

14. Why did you keep to the conventions of the
form?

15. • We kept to the conventions mainly of a drama because we wanted
the film to be gentle at first and then show a huge contrast between
the old man and the young boy, like in Private Ryan, its portrayed by
the music, the shots are shorted and the pace feels more intense. We
tried to think about every psychological aspect of our film in order to
make our feel see as professional as it could be in the given
circumstances. (Below shows the differences in shire people in the
opening scene).

16. How did you challenge convention of the
forms you looked at?

17. • The main way we challenged conventions was the fact our genre was
sport-Drama which isn’t extremely common.
• We had a big contrast between a busy scene and slow scene which is
unusual for a sport film.
• We also had a change in quality of camera from a clear one to a grainy
one which would continue throughout the rest of the film. This is a
very risky and unusual thing to have. We also had the idea of
changing the colour gradually throughout the film as the camera
technology improved through the ages.

18. This was how we used and ignored
conventions. Thank you.