Evaluation , Question 1

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

In our media project I wanted to make sure that our opening sequence looked as professional as possible. We had to make sure that we utilised conventions that real media products use, but we also wanted make the conventions into our own.

Firstly, I could not let the sequence start off straight away there had to be a build-up of some sort to make it look more interesting and professional to the audience.  I  also I wanted to make it look more convincing that this was indeed a professional attempt into making an interesting media product. So keeping that in mind I wasn’t just making sure that the audience were interested I had to make sure that even I as an audience member was convinced by it. 


When picking a company logo to use it was quite a difficult decision because I did not know whether or not I should use a well-known company such as Universal, DreamWorks etc. In the end I decided to  use the college's name as the production company behind the film.  It may not be as well known as the other companies mentioned earlier, but this company idea is original like my product.

On the top right hand corner there is an example of a credit for the beginning of the film 'Kidulthood.  The editors of the film have used a plain black background then white writing in plain text. On the right hand side is the footage I have used, it is a similar tactic with the simple lettering and background at the beginning.

During media introductions of every film there is always a series of credits being shown throughout it, with this very vital concept in mind I wanted our project to have the same theme as professional films. We had our companies name come up first then a made up production company second, then we had the names of myself and my co-partner Maryam. I am listed as the editor of the production and Maryam is listed as the director. In-between credit listings were the shots of footage we had, I think this was a good idea as it makes the clip look more interesting and mysterious and would make the audience want to watch more. When crossing over to the credits we had a white background with black writing I think this was a good effect as it was not too over the top and busy and the font was the right style which complimented the genre of the film.