The finished
media product of my film opening mainly followed the expected forms and
conventions of real media products in the systematic layout of the titles and
credits. The typical order was attained after the initial idents before the footage of the film began, all the
actors names had already been presented; the rest of the titles consequently
being shown over the film opening as is common within this media product. The
animation of the titles was a development on the conventional use of titles in
a film opening as it was more specified to our genre– the static flicker that
has connotations of demonic energy as was gathered through my earlier research.
This was the same approach for our main title opening with “Family Omens”
The setting
was chosen with the conventions of our sub-genre in mind. With supernatural
conventions being commonly less urban than other settings such as action might
be, our mese en scene was consequently considered with this in mind. The forest
setting for our entire two minute film opening goes further to be connotated with
the details of our genre as an Angels vs. Demons film in representing the
Garden of Eden.
Editing was
a big part of the process of our film and was used to set up the film as is
required from a film opening using everything from the sped up running of
the angel and the demon to establish them as beings of power to the footage being
pieced together the way it has to establish the impending demonic pursuers with
the narrative. We also edited filters (Cinematic 1) over the footage to establish a lighter
tone to the clips for heavenly connotations thus supporting our sub genres
conventions as well as helping to establish the narrative of the film to
achieve this media products purpose.
