This document discusses the opening sequence of a student film titled "An Epic High School Love Story". It summarizes how the opening sequence establishes the genre as a romantic comedy through the introduction of the nerdy male protagonist and popular female lead. It also discusses conventions used like titles and credits as well as ways the opening departs from conventions to make the film unique, such as including the film title at the beginning rather than end. The location, costumes, props, and camera work/editing are also summarized.

1. EVALUATION QUESTION 1

2. 1: In what ways does your media
product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media
products?

3. Name, Titles and Credits of the
film
Name:
The name of the film: An
Epic High School Love
Story is shown in the very
beginning of the film.
Although in many films it
is usually after the opening
sequence, but here I
thought of doing
something different. So
instead of putting the
name at the end I put it
right in the beginning.

4. Titles:
Well in almost all films the
titles are shown as the
opening sequence starts
with the acting going on in
the film and according to
the actors performing
their names are titled as
they act.
However, like I said
before, I wanted to do
something to make my
movie different, so I added
the titles after the name of
the movie unlike many
other films.

5. Credits:
The credits could not change
as they are supposed to
come at the end of the movie.
However the one change I
made is that I kept the font a
little large so that it is atleast
readable unlike most other
movies. I did this because in
almost all movies I find it
very difficult to read the
names of the cast etc. so I
thought that if I have got a
chance to make a movie why
shouldn‟t I make it in a way
that I want movies to be! A bit
selfish of me in a sense, but
still I'm fulfilling the negative
points in my mind about
movies to make them in a
way that pleases me.

6. Location/Setting
The location that I chose was
Forman Christian College. I did this
as it is a very big college and I could
find all the locations that I needed
for my movie. It had rooms for my
sleeping scenes and proper college
grounds and buildings for my
bumping scene. It did take me some
time to get permission to shoot in
the college as cameras are not
allowed there. However I did manage
to convince the Dean of Studies
madam Cheryl Burke to permit me to
make my movie. They were very co-
operative as they provided me a
guard so that I wont have any
difficulty in shooting my movie.

7. Costumes
All films have costumes and
props, my film had very casual
clothing. A plain white shirt for
the boy sleeping with mustard
colored trousers. Then a black
shirt and light brown trousers
when he heads for college. The
girl also wearing a very baggy
casual male type shirt and
black baggy pajamas. She
wears a bright yellow short
shirt with black and white
sports trousers and simple
joggers as shoes.

8. Props
The props used in my film
were nerdy glasses which I
borrowed from a friend, the
bed, the dressing table, the
mobile phone and ear
phones which the girl was
holding when she bumped
into the boy and the books
that the girl was holding.

9. Camera work/Editing
For the name and title I
downloaded a template
although in all the hurry
and confusion I don‟t really
remember which site I
downloaded it from.
I have used just two video
and one audio effects to
my movie clip.
Video Effects:
1: Cross Dissolve
2: Dip to Black
Audio Effect:
1: Cross Fade

10. Title Font
The font that I have kept
for my movie title is
simple. I have used
“Calibri” for my font
type. I have done this on
purpose as my movie is
not so romantic in the
opening sequence that I
have made. Therefore I
preferred to make the
title very simple like the
movie is!
I have taken a screen
shot of the font used in
CALIBRI
the video with the proof
of the font in the box.

11. How my opening sequence sets
up the story
The reason for my adding no
dialogues to the clip was the poor
voice quality. Therefore I thought of
making it in narration. It seemed
hard at first but it was quite easy to
be honest! The narration is done in
a way that it shows that the story
has not ended here, rather it is just
the “start of an epic high school
love story”, as the last line of the
narration starts. I have brought in
the element of „love at first sight
here‟ with inspiration from Disney
fairytales, especially Cinderella.
This adds a little more romantic and
a fairytale effect apart from the real
world.

12. How the opening suggests the
Genre
My film genre is a romantic
comedy. The romance part
comes when the boy an girl
look at each other and smile.
Whereas the comedy part
comes in the nerd who falls in
love with the hot shot of
college and the part where
they bump. It was hilarious the
way they bumped into each
other and the over acting of
the bump that Ali gave was
extremely unbelievable! It set
us laughing for more than 10
continuous minutes without
exaggeration!

13. How I introduced my characters
While I was planning my narration
with Ali, we got many ideas about
it but the best one was that the
narrator would hide his identity till
the end. That is, after the bang, he
says “…and that geek over there,
huh, that‟s me!”. In the beginning
the narrator describes the actor as
“a young, charming… aaa…
geek”. The girl is described when
she is shown sleeping “Here she
is… the dream girl of every boy”.
This sentence shows how well
known she is and the word
“DREAM girl” shows that she
does not accept boys at all!