In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
There are many different conventions of a teen film opening which we have conveyed in our opening of our teen film 'Trials and tribulations.' We have used a number of conventions to show our teen film is similar to a typical conventional teen film. we have used all key conventional aspects such as mise en scene, camerawork, editing and sound and compared it typical teen films that have been released in the past and found out that our teen film is similar:
camerawork- for this shot, we decide to use and over the shoulder shot, but at a slightly high angle. This is to show that the main character Jerome has a lower status than Omar who plays the "thug" type character.
In comparison, the thug is shown looking down on his victim at a slightly high angle over the shoulder shot. This represents his incredibly high status.
Mise en scene- for mise en scene we used a few of the aspects like setting, costume and make up, and staging in order to really let the audience into our film opening.
Setting: we decided to set our film opening around the Highbury and Islington area as we were trying to create a gritty type of teen movie and we thought Islington would be a great place to do so.
Costume and make up: as our characters were not too different from who we are in reality (with the exception of Akbar "Omar") finding costumes were not too hard to do.
Here are our costumes with a bit of insight into the characters: http://prezi.com/5otallupurfm/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
Staging (movement and performance): we used quite a lot of action in our piece so staging was very important, as it allowed our characters to express feelings and thoughts through the use of body language and facial expressions.
As for the sound, normally in a conventional teen film opening there a numerous amounts of sounds used to either represent the specific character or there is a suitable soundtrack that goes under the film. in our teen film we used quite a few sounds, such as: a gunshot, hype music and calming music.
Editing: in conventional teen films there are normally fine cut edits used in the opening to switch between the characters so that the audience do not get bored of watching one character simultaneously.
There are also many other conventions besides the main four which occur in the opening of a teen film such as:
Here are our costumes with a bit of insight into the characters: http://prezi.com/5otallupurfm/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
Staging (movement and performance): we used quite a lot of action in our piece so staging was very important, as it allowed our characters to express feelings and thoughts through the use of body language and facial expressions.
As for the sound, normally in a conventional teen film opening there a numerous amounts of sounds used to either represent the specific character or there is a suitable soundtrack that goes under the film. in our teen film we used quite a few sounds, such as: a gunshot, hype music and calming music.
Editing: in conventional teen films there are normally fine cut edits used in the opening to switch between the characters so that the audience do not get bored of watching one character simultaneously.
There are also many other conventions besides the main four which occur in the opening of a teen film such as:
- Travelling and arriving
- Titles
- Introduction of main characters
- Sets topic
- Sets genre
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