Main Post: 12.1 Question 1

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

In our opening sequence we tried to do all three.

To begin with, the product uses typical forms and conventions of real media products through the structure of the sequence. With the use of typical conventions such as credits, clear style and font which allows writing to be legible, the use of different camera angles and characterization.

Our opening sequence may develop forms and conventions of real media products through a larger range of editing techniques. For example, after watching the opening sequence of 'The Hangover' they commonly used 'shot reverse shot', we used 'jump cuts' and a range of other shots to create a different perspective and make our opening sequence appear more visually interesting.

It may be evident that we challenged forms of conventions of real media products as well. Due to introduction of actors and the different times of day in the few minutes of the opening. We became inspired for the audience to know what the rest of the film would be like from the comedy aspect of 'The Hangover'. 

It would be most appropriate that we tried to use the forms and conventions to the highest level to ensure our opening sequence seemed like a real film.