Evaluation 1

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

Our media product, a film title sequence, uses, develops and challenges forms and conventions of real media products in many ways. Firstly it uses them as, in our group; we watched and used other title sequences. For example Wes Andeson’s Moonrise Kingdom, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Royal Tenenbaums.  Also ‘Catch Me If You Can’ staring Leonardo DiCaprio. Elements such as shots, fonts and colour were the things we picked up on and used.

This is an example from Moonrise Kingdom. The font from this poster and its title sequence is what in our group we tried very had to find something similar. Mainly becuase we loved it so much and it does link to our time period of where the narrative is set.

This time period is the pre-1970's where the majority of the flash backs and events from the main characters life, W.Murphy, in the film would be presented, set and filmed.

Another Wes Anderson element we replicated was the breaking of the '4th wall' rule. This is when the actor looks straight at the camera down the sight of the lens - a technique Anderson frequently uses in his films (shown below).

Forms in which we challenged were them of the big convention that in the title sequence, the main actor is seen in the majority of it throughout. This compared to ours is quite drastic because we don’t actually present an actor for our main actor Tom Hanks, instead only the second main character, to be played by James Marsden.

One media form in which we developed upon was the fact of using ‘Stop Motion’ filming techniques. Developed from ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ and Wes Anderson’s way of filming that film in particular we got the idea to film our ending scene in our title sequence. This was the scene with the memory box and all the nostalgic props. We filmed this by adding props two at a time and then each time something was added we took a picture. To do this the camera has to be positioned in the same place, on the same settings and at the same angle each time you do it. Then you have the perfect shots. When presented together with our font in our 'Final Look' this whole final scene / technique looked very nice.