Task 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of real film openings)

Production Company

This is our first frame we use on our opening sequence. We made this title using Livetype as we found it easy to use and easy to convert the titles on to Final cut and add them into our opening sequence. We made all our titles on livetype and made all of them the same colour- with a black background and white font. This makes the font stand out to the audience as of the colour contrast.

Opening representing the genreIn this frame there is scrolling text at the bottom of the screen which tells you the basic storyline. This represents the genre of our opening sequence immediately as we know its going to be based on mystery. We wanted to make our news report scene look realistic. We tried achieving this by researching other news channels. We found BBC News had a planet spinning in the background, this inspired us to do something similar to enhance the idea this news report channel is known world wide and is a professional company.

We also wanted the news reporter announcing the news sitting behind a desk as this is shown on a lot of news channels and was a good way to make our new report channel more realistic and professional.

Title

This frame shows of the title of our film. We chose the title ‘Thr33’ as it represents the number of teenagers who get taken, this title was inspired by the film title ‘Se7en’ we liked how the title had the number 7 to replace the letter ‘v’ as we thought it was a unique idea. Which inspired us to name our film Thr33. We made our title using livetype.

Setting and CostumeWe wanted the costume for the teenager to be kept basic and casual and something that is commonly worn by teenagers- jeans, top and a black blazer.

The costume for the kidnapper had to be something which could disguise the persons face. We found a lot of ‘bad guys’ in films wear black as it’s the colour of mystery and doe not attract much attention. So we chose the kidnapper to wear a over sized black hoodie so it would hide their figure and their face .

The frame shows the teenager sitting on a bench, in a field or a park- in open surroundings. We see this as there are plants and grass surrounding her.

Special Effects And PropWe used a lot of contrasting and a variety of special effects for this shot as we found it was hard to see the cigarette as it blended in with the bench to much. So to make the cigarette look more clear we had to enhance and contrast and add lots of effects to make it look this effective. We used the cigarette as a prop as it was something the teenager was using before she was taken. It is meant to interpret the idea to the audience that the character dropped it when she got taken. We have zoomed in on the prop to show what the character left behind.

Introducing Characters

These are 2 frames which we put together. After every teenager that gets taken/ shown on screen will have their name shown in the next shot after to show the name of the person who is playing a certain character.

Camera Work

This frame shows of our good camera work and special effects. This is a close up shot of the teenagers mobile which she dropped when she got taken. We used special effects to enhance what was shown on the screen and make it more clear to the audience that her mum is calling her.

Location

This frame shows one of the teenagers walking through the woods. We can see this as there are lots of trees surrounding her and leaves which have fallen of the trees are covering the floor. This also shows to the audience that it is Autumn season.