1. In what ways does your media
product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real
media products?
2. Production Logos
Every film will have a production logo at the start of their film
because it is used to promote the companies that are producing
the film.
I have made my own production logo because I have made a
company, for the purpose of this project.
I did not make it in the theme and genre of my opening sequence
so the company was not restricted to those genres and themes.
3. Opening Sequence Conventions
Most opening sequences start with the logos for the main
companies involved in the production of the film and, most of the
time, the main few actors.
I have done some research into opening sequences of other films to
help me plan my own opening sequence.
I followed this pattern, Telos Studios logo then the main characters
and a bit about each on them.
I used some title to help introduce the actors playing each of the
characters that are shown in the opening sequence.
4. Titles
I have used title throughout my opening sequence to introduce the director,
main actors and some of the people that have contributed to the project.
This is very common in films so I decided to have them in a small font in a
corner of the screen, one at a time.
This will also help to introduce the character one by one. I chose to make
them simple so they will not draw the viewer’s attention totally away from the
content in the opening sequence.
5. Enigma Codes
I tried to make it so the protagonist of my film does not obviously get
reviled straight away.
There are small hits to help the audience start to realize that the
man led dying on the floor is actually Mike, the older brother.
This will all be reviled later on in the film once the protagonist has
teamed up with the detective.
This helps to bring mystery and suspense to the film.
6. Action Codes
I have used a few of action codes in my opening sequence, the main ones
being guns and flashbacks.
Using guns helps to add tension to the scenes and the flashbacks helped to
make the scenes split up and confuse the audience.
Confusing the audience a little bit, by using flashbacks, makes them have to
think about what has happened and what will happen, as well as what
won’t happen.
7. Binary Opposites
I have included a few binary opposites in my opening sequence,
the main one being a young adult living in a large house, which is
probably quite expensive.
This makes the audience think about why he lives there and how he
managed to get a house like that.
Having binary opposites helps to make the film non-linier, which
makes the film more interesting to watch.
8. Genre Conventions
I have matched some key aspects of my opening sequence to the
genre to make it suit the typical action-crime film genre.
I have used characters who are criminals to make the basis of the
crime side of the hybrid genre and I have used guns and a potential
murder to make up the action side of the genre.
I have also linked the main themes I planned to my opening
sequence using small features; for instance, I have made one of the
characters to nearly be killed but one of the other on purpose. This
connotes there will be some kind of revenge later in the film.
