Q1.

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

I have emulated my research findings in my production by conducting a thorough research on Romance and Comedy film opening sequences, and gathering data on conventions used. I used this as guidance for my own film opening sequence by using most elements but breaking some conventions and the fourth wall. I done this by the use of music and getting my actress to look into the camera. Often you hear rocks songs in Romance and Comedy film opening sequences however, I decided to take a step away from that typical convention and make an original piece in its place. I decided to have a mixture of Hip-Hop and Korean Pop.

There have many changes made from the start of the research and planning process. Being departed from one idea to the other constantly pushed me and my production team to come to a conclusion. We challenged our research and planning by having big discussions, deciding as a group if we should cancel out one idea to go with the other consistently. It got to a point where our plot and initial ideas had to be redone with improvements. Changing the storyline and conduction a new research led to our final completion of our opening sequence, Unrequited Love.

The forms of conventions I used in my media film opening sequence is Super-titles. As a group we wanted our text to be merged with the footage, and we thought that it will be best suited for a Romance and Comedy opening sequence. These were developments that took place after changing some of our research and planning. Also, I generally am fond of the drama style opening sequences, it gave the idea of how to in-cooperate that with my opening sequence.

In conclusion my media product uses, develops and challenges forms of conventions of real media products by how I changed ideas that didn't work with ones that did. For example where to record our main actress because of unexpected issues we couldn't go with the original idea. We had to discard it and find somewhere else. Also, breaking conventions to make my product more unique whilst understanding that it could be scary to viewers seeing this change with the music and the breaking of the fourth wall.