Saturday 29 January 2011

Question 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

FILM TEASER TRAILER

Followed formal conventions of a teaser trailer
• Rating card used at head of trailer
• Title slates hinting on narrative
• Shots of different events in movie in chronological order
• Release date and title of movie exposed at end
• Music used on beat of title slates, similar to The Social Network
• Used close ups to introduce main characters
• Different locations of film
• No continuity

Challenged formal conventions of a teaser trailer
• Build up of fast editing wasn't used, in tone of movies genre and narrative
• No voice over or dialogue used, because of limited access to resources
• No change of music - one soundtrack used that develops tone

Followed generic conventions of a teen family drama teaser trailer
• Shots of different emotions throughout film
• Slow paced music and shots used throughout
• Showing teenagers in school and doing makeup
• No negative representation of teenagers



FILM POSTER

Followed formal conventions of a film poster
• Release date
• Title of film
• Main actors names
• Billing block
• Images of main actors
• Tagline of film

Challenged formal conventions of a film poster
• Used more than one picture of main actor to show the importance of their role and the idea of the scrapbook - scrapbook design similar to Terms Of Endearment


• Images of snapshots used to make it look like a teenagers scrapbook not professional images, however quality of images are high.


FILM MAGAZINE

Followed formal conventions of a film magazine
• Masthead on top of page
• Well developed magazine masthead is used in background to main image however my product will be newly published so only some letters are in background
• Tagline of magazine
• Main cover line linked to main image on page
• Website link for magazine
• Actors in character role, looking into camera, at audience
• 3-4 font styles and colours used looks professional

Challenged formal conventions of a Film Magazine
• Price and barcode not used as it will be a free magazine for The Guardian newspaper readers, as my audience wouldn't pay for a film magazine
• More than one person in frame, showing importance of both characters
• Mostly middle aged male audience for film magazines-Main cover line is conventionally of male interest however mine is of young female interest
• Using the 'K' in 'FLICK' slightly slanted to intrigue the 'fun' readers of the magazine



ALL PRODUCTS
• Followed formal and generic conventions to link products to make it recognisable to audience
• Using same sartorial codes and typography in all products

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