Evaluation

Question 1:

For the coursework our group had to make a two minute opening title sequence of a chosen genre meaning we had to do a large amount of research into different genres of films and their specific conventions in the title sequence. We found that there are a lot of different conventions of an opening  sequence. A convention that we found was a large use of close ups. This gives a close up perspective of the surrounding objects or the surrounding scene to give the audience a detailed feel of the atmosphere that surrounds the film and the characters in the film. This makes the audience feel very involved with the piece and helps them to understand the story more. We also get to see the characters facial expressions as well as their body language so we really get to grips with how these characters feel.

Another convention is slow paced editing. This is used to help the audience question clues that are given to them through the piece that the director specifically put there for the audience to question. This will make the audience start asking a plethora of questions and to slowly start piecing parts of the answers together as the film goes on. This will suck in the audience and make them want to watch further. They will want to watch further just to see if what they predict turns out to be true.

Another convention is the titles and logos that happen during these scenes.These are here because they help the audience to see who took part or helped with the making of the film. It also means that the audience get the chance to see if there are any familiar actors and directors we can also see this by the use of the production company logos so the audience can judge whether or not the believe the film is their type of film. This adds a greater importance to the film as it shows the audience information about the film.

The genre we chose to do is a Sci-Fi Thriller as we thought it would suit the current happenings with the government of today. We also chose it because we was inspired by the film The Matrix and the element of computers and hacking within it. The typical conventions of our genre is low paced editing, close ups, low key lighting and a mixture of somewhat upbeat but eerie music. The low lighting and upbeat music creates the atmosphere needed to pull off a Sci-Fi thriller as it gives the sense of rebellion. In our sci-fi thriller, we have a lot of long dragged out shots which brings the piece an overall eerie feel as the pace of the cuts dont match the upbeat feel of the music which makes things uneven.
 
In our thriller, we have challenged the conventions as we used some long shots which aren't usually used within this genre. We tried to get the persons facial expressions and surroundings from as many different angles as possible. This was to show how the persons lived a normal life but suffered from underlying problems.

Question 2:

In our Sci-Fi Thriller we chose a target audience of teens as when we researched about our genre we found out that this is the type of audience that likes to watch sci-fi and thrillers. We also found that mainly a male audience like to watch thrillers but not as equally as females so we tried to show this in our title sequence. In our sci-fi thriller we tried to represent this target audience through the characters costumes as well as the characters attitude in the performance. We have also tried to make the setting and surroundings as familiar to a teenager as possible. This is why we chose to film in a teenagers bedroom as it has the type of feel with posters and a home type setting but this also reflects the innocent look and feel of the piece. We chose a teen male be the main character as this will help out target audience relate to this character as they will most likely be friends with the same types of people and be able to relate to the characters life making them care for this character. This is shown in a few pie charts of the results from our survey below.