1) In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our film opening is based on a criminal thriller, and we have a women on the run from the corrupt government, so instead of a man on the run film, we have broken conventions and decided to use a woman on the run. I found that this would be a good move because there are not many criminal thrillers out there on the market, and so this gives are film a uniqueness about it.
The title of the film is called Angelus, we chose this name, because it means transporter in Greek and we thought this would be a fitting name for our film, because our movie opening revolves round a mysterious case, with a contents that is unknown throughout the movie opening, and because we have kept with a criminal thriller I chose to have a modern theme, such as technological crime thriller, this is because in this day and age, nearly everything is run by computer systems, and so I tried to implement this in the title, with a shaky effect, as if it was a computer malfunction, and in the background there is smoke, which shows a mysterious mise-en-scene and causes people to ponder why there is smoke and why have the colors have been chosen and why the name has been chosen, and this is what i wanted because then it keeps the viewer engaged with the film opening and has a narrative hook due to the enigma of the story-line. Because of the modern and technological age the crimes are done via the internet and so when the text moves its like someone is hacking the system and causing a malfunction to the text and i thought that this would be a nice effect to be using. Also the color of the text has hints of red in it and red represents danger and also the movement of the font represent the chase in the film opening.
This shot is my favorite shot out of my movie opening, this is because of the depth and field of the shot, you have the watch perfectly in focus and is really detailed and then in the background you have the persons legs and the wall which is out of focus on purpose so that it blurs the background, and gives this really good effect. The watch is a very valuable prop in the movie opening, this is because this watch and the other actors watch have a relationship between them, and this introduces the other character into the movie, this is down by going from the mans watch to the women's, and by this transition you can see that there is a direct relation between the male actor and the female actor. But what the viewer does not know is that if they are friend or foe. As you can see by these 2 frames there are 2 watched, ones the mans watch and the other one is the woman's watch, and during the film opening the black watch fades to the silver woman's watch, which means that there is a connection between the 2 people in the film opening.
In this shot you can see someone walking out of a building in London, and the shot is a long shot and I have used the effect of a CCTV camera and that he is being watched throughout the film opening. This shot produces enigma, because we don't know why he is being watched and, this also introduces the characters face and so you can see what he really looks like which could be interpreted in many different ways, some viewers may think that he is a good person, some may have a different perspective and he could be bad, but this makes the viewer think and makes then engaged in the film opening. In London there are thousands of cameras, and people think that big brother is watching us and the government is watching our every move, and this shot helps prove the fact that this man and the other characters are being watched constantly by someone.
This shot is a mid shot of the next character, she is the main character of the film opening, I have cut of her head on purpose, this is because i wanted her to be introduced later on in the film opening, this is because it causes enigma and makes the audience engaged because they want to find out who the new character is and why she is part of the film opening. As this is a crime thriller film opening, you usually see men in these films, and on the run films, but here we have gone against conventions, and used a women on the run, and in this frame you can see easily that it is a women walking. And because we have introduced 2 new characters, the viewer will wounder who both of them are and if there is a connection between the 2 of the characters
In this frame we see the man holding the brief case, and as seen in the beginning of the film opening, the male actor places a confidential envelope inside that brief case and then he is transporting the case to someone, and as the title of the film means transporter in Greek and so this prop fits with the story line rather well. In most crime thriller movies there is always a significant prop or object that gathers the attention of the audience, and in this case the brief case is the prop and with this prop it brings enigma into the film opening because no one knows why there is a case or where its meant to be transported to, and this engages the viewer. And I have kept to the convention of a mysterious prop and i think that it will help strengthen the enigma of the film opening.
In this shot you can see that the male actor and the female actor finally meet and as you can see by this shot they both pass each other, and i froze the frame so that you can see what really happened, and as you can see the male actor exchanges the brief case with the female actor. As you can see I have used a saturation effect on the frame and i have frozen the frame at this point so you can see what happened during the the exchange, this might give the audience an insight to actually what happened when the 2 actors met. Going back to the color of the frame i used this effect because it is a very vital event of the film opening, and so i used this effect and a sound effect of thunder rolling to project that this point of the film is very important and sets the mood for the rest of the film opening.
As you can see i have used another saturated shot, i have done this so that it points out a valuable shot in the movie. In the shot there are 2 men walking towards the female actor and as you can see they have the head down and are wearing black clothing in the shot, all of the characters where wearing black clothing to show that they were part of the same agency and show a vital connection between them, may it be good or bad. And there are 2 of them, and only one women, which means that she is outnumbered and she is more vulnerable, this is a media convention which we have included in our film opening. In the shot you can just see the 2 male characters on there own and this produces dominance and that these 2 figures are strong and powerful.
This is the final shot of the film opening, and this is where you fully see the women's face and her body, and as in the watch shot there is a field and depth, which looks nice and when she finally comes into shot she is focused in and you can see her fully. Its like she has come from her vulnerable self at the start of the film and has come out of her shell and become the rouge agent that she is. If you watch the shot she comes out from the darkness into the light. And the music playing throughout starts fading out near the end of the film and when she finally walks out of the shot the music cuts and there is silence, just like her there was all of the action during the start and near the end she escapes with no one following her and she leaves in silence and the no audio reflects this.
The first comparison I have stated is the title of the film, as you can see the names are very different and the presentation of them are also very different, the first one is very simple and bland with only 2 color, but then the final edit title, is a lot more in depth, and has more colors which stand out more to the audience.
As you can see there is a big differences between the 2, the top one was made on Live-type, and the bottom one was made in after effects. The similarity between the two is that it has a black background and shows how important the title is.
