In what
ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products? (PART 1)
We researched
into codes and conventions of title sequence in our lesson and in our free
time. In addition , we analyzed title sequences our self such as ‘Zombieland’ ‘SE7EN
‘and other chosen ones for our self ‘Mars Attack’ and ‘Sinster’ was the two I analyzed
which you can read on my blog.
From the research
we found out that title sequence create enigmas, like in SE7EN they highlight
key clues about what might happen in the film. Once I watched the film , I noticed
links from the title sequence to the film such as the filing of his fingerprints.
From this concept of creating a enigma for the audience , as a group we decided
that we will be doing this also. The enigmas we highlighted in our title sequence
was the connotation of the colour red in the title appearing of ‘Apartment 6’
we used a flash of red colour to try and signify death in this apartment whether
previously or in the film. In addition, the photos of the family and individuals
are all photographs of his blood family which died here as he got put up for adoption.
The underline story of his adoption, is shown when a flash appears of a message
saying ‘Had to give Daniel away today’. Also, a flash to a diary flicking
though pages happens throughout our title sequence. This is actually his mother
diary and holds key information , about
his family life which who Daniel never knew or remembers .The apartment is
strongly possessed as the pages flick through faster with no one their , and
with the door shutting at the end. But also we used close ups of Daniel in the apartment
looking around , so you don’t give his identity away. He is a dark figure. The
point of the enigma is for the audience to engage into your film as they have questions
which they want to be answered. Some
are as follow:
·
Whose diary is that?
·
Who is the dark man in the apartment?
·
Who are the people in the photo?
·
Who is Daniel?
Also , another convention we learnt about was that shows
are indication of the setting , for
example in a title sequence we carried research on , in ‘Zombieland’ the
setting is established as you can tell its in a town in America , through the
shops shown in the background of the chaos
in the streets. In addition, the first opening is a man in orange prison
clothes which establish the location in America. In our ‘apartment 6 ‘title sequence, we established the main setting of course to
be in the apartment itself. The whole title sequence is filmed with in this
location and by the title name , you can tell as the audience that of course
the main location is in a apartment. By showing the apartment is dark and the closing
of the door and pages flicking by itself , as a audience you establish that
this apartment is haunted by some paranormal figure.
The music of horror as to be dark and have a beat to
create tension or a climax, for the audience to be scared off. For our title sequence
, we used a heart beat throughout to link to show Daniel emotions and feeling
of walking around this apartment. He is
scared so therefore and loud heartbeat is used which has a knock on effect onto
the audience. The music we used ‘ Awareness’ has a eerie atmosphere to build suspense.
As a group , we didn't want to uses all the title sequences
titles which were as followed and the ones highlighted in red show the ones we
used. As you can see , we didn't want to use them all because we felt this
would drag our title sequence out and we wanted to it be short.
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