In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The Genres of our open sequence are Crime/Mystery/Drama. these all relate to the footage we have captured and made into our production. The crime genre relates to the whole production, the mystery genre relates to the enigma which we have used in our production of who the male is and the drama genre relates to the suspense we have created within the production.
Our production is based on the kidnapping of a citizen (Charley) but from the point of view of behind the kidnapper. We have situated the camera behind the kidnapper to create a sense of mystery as to who the kidnapper is, we have also done this to draw in the attention of the audience and make then interested in watching the following footage. The close ups used are to signify the girls features and emotions. we have also used long shots to establish the location in which the footage has been captured.
The style and colour of the font are plain white on a black background. Although the colour of white is not seen as a bright colour it stands out more than any other colour on black, it also fits in with the theme of a criminals lifestyle as it is not fun.
There are a few enigmas used within our production. The main enigma is the question of What will happen to the girl? This question is not shown in the production but will be thought by the viewers as they know she is kidnapped but do not know what happens to her afterwards. One of the primary enigmas that are within our production is Who is the kidnapper? Again this is not shown in the production and is another thought of the audience.
- Introduction of characters
The characters are firstly introduced using a long shot to give a bit of background information of where they go to school; we then see a close up of the victim talking to a mate, this fully shows the victim's features. We only see the back of the kidnapper; this leaves the audience questioning who he is and what he looks like.
The camera angles used are long shots, close ups and medium close ups. We used the long shots to establish the location in which the footage was being shot and the medium close ups and close ups to establish the characters features and emotions.
With camera movement, the main type we used was tracking as this helped fit into our genres. I found this out by doing research and finding other films along these genres that had used this technique.
We have used a variety of different sounds within our production, we have the natural sound to help set the location and scenary. Then we have a sound clip of mysterious music to help display the theme of our production and create the mysterious feel to the opening sequence. We furtherly used a voice clip which we recorded as a police statement. This helped the audience realise what is following the opening sequence, but not in detail.
- Editing & Special Effects
We used cross disolves within our porduction to help tue opening sequence flow, we placed the cross dissolves at the start and end of each title when split into different parts in the Adobe Premiere Pro software. This made the titles fade in and out and not sudden flashes.
The costumes we used were school uniforms to display the girls were school children. We had no props for out production and no artificial lighting was used throughout the production. The hair and make up was natural features.
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