Task 1

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

These screen grabs where taken from Final Cut pro and After Effects when editing our video. This is the title, Written by Leaya Hatzakis being typed into the ‘Google’ search bar. As it is being typed we used after effects to dim the light around it, highlighting the writing. So the audience’s attention would be drawn to the title.
Throughout the film, our titles are constantly incorporated, like the ‘Google’ title.

Here is another incorporated title within our sequence that I think explores an interesting way of showing titles. In this title, ‘Edited by Elly Sams’ is hidden within the text. Our Actress Catrina, turns over the pages to the right page, then highlights the title so it stands out within the text.
We wanted to bring back interesting titles to films because many films just simply lay the text over the film and it can be very boring and dull. A film that inspired us to incorporate our titles was, ‘Napoleon Dynamite’. Although this film is very unlike ours and had a completely different context, we can still relate them. When I watched the opening sequence of ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ it really grabbed my attention and made my expectations very high for the film, and I wanted to have the same outcome for my film.

We also used modern ideas and technology to get the titles in. Originally we wanted to use a typewriter to incorporate a title, but after thought and discussion we decided that it did not fit appropriately into our film idea. We chose a much more suitable way, which relates to our film and can also relate to the audience. We used an iPod to incorporate the title of the Original Score, because the music relates to the iPod and the iPod relates to the youth of the character who stars in our opening sequence.