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Question 1
In what ways does
your media products
use, develop or
challenge forms and
conventions of real
media products?
What are Formal
Conventions?
What are conventions? Why are they important?
The media form we created is a film title Conventions are important because
sequence. they give meaning to media products,
Conventions are almost like symbols that are as they give you what you would
recognised in film due to their style, form or expect from a particular genre. This
content. For example conventions in a thriller helps an audience distinguish whether
may be guns (prop). This could be through
technical terms also, such as lighting, camera
they would like to see a particular film.
angles and sound.
Directors or producers might want to
The purpose of title conventions, such as the challenge conventions in their films, to
order, font, sounds, animation and images is to
break stereotypes, by challenging
set the theme and mood for the film. So jagged
fonts and eerie music would represents the horror certain representations of groups. For
genre, which sets a creepy mood for the rest of example in a thriller, it could be the
the film male that is seen as vulnerable, instead
of the female character.
What is a Title
Sequence?
What is a Title Sequence?
A title sequence is the part of a film, usually at the
beginning, in which the title as well as key distribution
and production information is presented.
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