The document discusses how the media product follows several conventions of children's television opening title sequences. It structures the program name at the end, includes a group of friends with diverse personalities united by a school uniform, and uses energetic shots of the cast having fun at the beginning and end to engage audiences. A youthful, upbeat backing track reinforces that the program is fun and suitable for its target age range. Overall, the product adheres to standard conventions to identify the program, signify its themes, and attract viewers.

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

2. From extensive research into opening title
sequences of children’s television programmes I
discovered the conventions which make them
what they are. I followed these conventions such
as structuring the name of the programme to
appear at the end of the opening titles in the
same way that Tracy Beaker and The sleepover
club do. By doing this it allows the audience to be
aware of the name of the show and gives a slight
insight into what the programme is to be about.

3. Another convention that I followed is the use
of having a group of friends being both male
and female which all have very individual yet
stereotypical characteristics, style and
personalities which would usually occur in
them not being friends. But the convention
followed is that the group of friends with all of
the different characteristics can actually all be
very good friends. Therefore sending a
subliminal message to the audience.

4. Following another convention, I structured the
cast to do fun, energetic and youthful shots all
together at the beginning and end of the
opening title sequence. This is to firstly draw
the audience into watching the video which
works as they immediately see fun and
youthful characters simply having fun, which is
appealing for the target audience. And then
to keep the audience wanting to watch the
programme as the final image they see if again
fun and youthful characters having fun. This
instills the thought to the audience that the
programme is going to be fun and for their age
range.

5. Another convention that I followed is having the
complete cast wearing school uniform as their
costumes. This convention signifies to the
audience that although the group as individuals are
represented as very different, they are however all
united through the uniform. Although they are all
dressed in the same uniform their characteristics
and individual personalities are again shown
through the different ways in which they wear the
same uniform. For example Sam and ben wear
theirs scruffy by having un-tucked shirts and ties
that are done up quite high but wonky. Daisy
wears a skirt and an added pink cardigan and also
wears her tie quite low down in a large
knot. Annie wears her uniform very neat and tidy
with all shirt buttons done up and tie fastened at
the highest point in a small knot. Although Ashley
doesn't wear the same uniform as the rest of the
cast she still wears a school PE uniform of shorts,
top, football socks and trainers.

6. Another convention I followed is the
use of a youthful, fun and upbeat
backing track which can be heard
when pressing play on the icon to the
left of this writing. The use of a
youthful, fun and upbeat backing track
to the opening titles of a children’s TV
programme is to reinforce to the
audience that it is a youthful
programme which is suitable for
themselves. And also that it is
something fun to watch.
The track was called "Highway Five" and I
trimmed it down to the exact length and
desired part on iMovie before adding the clip
to my project.