In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our Film's Plot
- Our film Delusion fits under the genre Drama with an element of Sci-fi. The plot of our film is whether or not our main character finds out why she has died and why she has not reached peace. Its starts of with following the main character who is an business women on her way to work when she discovers there has been an accident and like any curious person she goes over to see what has happened. Only to find out it is her who has been in the accident. She then starts to freak out wondering why she can see her dead body and why nobody will acknowledge her or answer her questions. At the end of the opening scene she then goes into a monologue of asking many questions leaving the audience on a cliff hanger wondering what is going to be happening next in the enigma.
- Our opening sequence both conforms and challenges typical features of an opening sequence. Here is how:
Titles
For our titles we didn’t have an
inspiration because we just wanted to keep them simple so
the audience would focus on what was being said instead of crazy fonts and texts. We used a simple white font which faded in and out and most of them were overlayed. You could closely link it to the opening credits to Ghost
because they too use white simple fonts/text
to.
Credits on Ghost
Credits on Delusion
Genre- Drama
Challenges to common stereotypes:
In Drama the main character who needs to be helped and ideally in an ‘tragic event' is usually male but in our film we decided to make her female.
The reason we did this is to challenge another stereotype that dramas are mainly targeted at males. We wanted our film to have equal appeal to both female and male characters and so we decided that our main character would be female.
Narrative Structure:
Most films follow Todorov's classic narrative pattern of equilibrium, disruption, resolution and new equilibrium. In the diagram below I show you how my film and another film called 22 Jump Street follows this theory:
Specific Narrative Techniques that we used:
Internal monologue - At the end of opening scene our main character had an internal monologue we did this by recording and playing a voice over the video footage. We did this so the auidence could know what the character is feeling and thinking
Narrative Ellipsis - we cut out certain unneeded scenes such as her walking through all streets in order to speed up the action and the audience can fill in the gap themselves.
Enigma Code - What will happen to Molly after? How will he handle the situation up? Will her life return to normal?
Cut-away - We used cut-away shots to show minor detail to add effect onto the scene.cross cutting to show Guy running down the street and then cut to Bella waiting outside the take away place for him and then back to him running.
Style:
Lighting/Colour
Ghosting lighting.
Drive colour.
lighting: When we were editing on adobe premier pro, we wanted to create our film to look as cinematic as possible. To achieve this we messed around with the lighting and contrast edit. When creating our lighting, we were basing our lighting, we tried to create the same sort of lighting on a you tube video that explained how to achieve a cinematic look on adobe premier pro.
Soundtrack and dialogue
This is the music that we used throughout the opening scene. We chose this piece because of its ominous sound that fit the theme throughout the entire opening scene. Furthermore we looped the beginning of the song at the start of the movie as we felt that it was able to capture the audiences attention and captivate them to what was going to happen while also creating an enigma for the audience without having anything actually happen on screen. This sets a perfect atmosphere for the upcoming scenes where the music then picks up into a much more dramatic feel just as the body is discovered.
For the dialogue in our opening sequences, most films have either a voice over, dialogue or just the music with quiet action on screen.In our film we used an voice over, foley,music in the background and ansynchronous sound. We feel that for our film this works best as it is a monologue at the end so we used an internal.
A real film which also challenges this stereotype is 'John Tucker Must Die' as the opening sequence consists of both voice over and dialogue as she is having a flashback as well near the beginning of the film.