Q1: In what ways does your media
product use, develop or challenge
the forms and conventions of real
media products?
By Luke Whitehouse
The film genre that our title sequence conforms to is a thriller
movie, this is because of the conventions of a thriller are
featured in our opening title sequence. For example the
antagonist in our movie is mysterious and hides who he really
is by wearing dark clothing and covering up his face, his
actions are also done out of revenge and anger. Our films
opening sequence takes inspiration from the Heavy Rain and
Bourne movies, we wanted them to have small, condensed
and light text and have the name of the film in bolder writing
so we can show it is more important. We also looked at the
opening title sequences for Se7ven and Halloween to help on
decide on the order of the titles and also the dark lighting for
the settings and backgrounds.
Title Frames
Frame 1
This is our contact sheet for our opening title sequence. The first
frame is the establishing shot of our film, we did this first to
show the setting and location of our film. It also has conventions
of the thriller genre as the location is quiet and empty which
gives that sense of danger and it isn’t very bright either.
Frame 2
The second frame is used to introduce to one of the characters
as it shows us a full view of this character and gives us ideas of
who he is and what is going to happen to him. We can also get
ideas about who he is from the costume that he is wearing as it
all looks sporty and athletic and could fit in with the setting as a
lot of people do exercise in a park.
Frame 3
The third frame shows camerawork, editing and more
information about the character and as well as this it tells us a
key part of the film and why there are a lot of murders in our
movie. The camerawork uses a close up of the characters chest
as he takes off his coat revealing a football shirt which tells us he
is a football fan and plays it too, the shirt also relates to the
reason why the antagonist kills all of the people that he does.
While the editing is used to reveal one of our opening titles as
the character removes his coat.
Frame 4
The fourth frame gives us the first appearance and introduction
of the antagonist of our film. We can tell this is the antagonist as
he is introduced in a room with dark lighting and has his back
facing the camera and is wearing a costume that doesn’t allow
us to see who he is and creates the mystery and suspense often
used in thriller movies.
Frame 5
The fifth frame shows the font and style of our titles used during
the opening sequence. The more important titles were given a
larger size of font than the other opening titles as well as the
names of the people or the companies that were a part of
making the film.
Frame 6
The sixth frame was used to show camerawork in our opening
title sequence. When the antagonist jumped from one place to
another we started with a long shot to show his location and
then used a match on action to show us where his feet landed
after he had jumped.
Frame 7
The seventh frame was used for special effects we had added to
our opening title sequence. While the character was doing
exercises we put him and the scene in freeze while at the same
time showing the title of who did the editing, when the scene
was no longer frozen the title had disappeared and the shot
carried on as normal.
Frame 8
The eighth frame is our main title which shows the name of our
film. We chose to show it hear as we wanted to introduce the
name of the movie near the end of the opening title sequence
and this is where the music changes so therefore gives it a bit
more of a focus and an impact. We chose the name “Sudden
Death” for our film as we felt it would be typical of a thriller and
also fit in with football which links together all the people that
are killed during the film.
Frame 9
The ninth and final frame is to show us what the antagonist does
throughout the film and involves a murder which is common in a
thriller movie. We used this at the end of our opening title
sequence to do something different than ending it with the
name of the film or a fade out and it can also leave the audience
watching want to keep watching and find out what happens
next.