Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The Title:  The title of our film comes in at around 0:56. We placed it here because this was this makes it looks more like a film intro, because the title is at around the start of the video. We originally had it at the end of the video in the rough-cut, but we decided it looked too much like a movie trailer rather than a film intro.

I think our movie title looks quite professional and could be used in a “real media” product.

Setting: You can get a good view of the setting from the 4^th shot up to the 9^th shot. The setting is around a very rural empty area near the coast. In the 5^th shot, there is another earth in the sky; this is because our film is set in an alternate reality.

The setting usually can be compared to a real media product, because a real media product could be filmed anywhere.

Costumes: The costumes we used are just clothes. We used colours that blend in with our background and setting; for example, grey, brown and etc. The 6^th shot up to the 9^th shot gives you a good idea of the costumes used.

The costumes is the same issue as the setting because, you can use about anything in a real media product.

Camera Work and Editing: We did most of our camera work hand held because we wanted to do a tracking movement. We also used a tripod in quite a few landscape shots. I think all of these shots looks quite excellent once put together.

In all of the images you can see all of them have been edited quite well. For example all of these have 5% Gaussian blur and a lot of changes to the saturation, brightness and contrast. We also used three way colour corrector to give this film intro an attractive looks. For video transition we used a lot of film dissolves and cross dissolves to give the transition more depth. We also used dip to black and dip to black. Before the last clip there was a scene and it used a lot of fast cuts to change the sequence quickly.

Font and Style: The font we use for our “EdgeClub” title is called “Liffey Script SF”. We actually found it quite hard to find an ideal font for our tittle; and accidently we found this font and it worked perfectly. The font we used in image 2 and all of the casting is called “Adobe Arabic”. I think simple font work well to make the point clear; more example the director and etc. We also used the same font for our movie title “IMMANENCE”.  

Story/Narrative: Honestly the story isn’t that clear usually in the intro of the movie. From all the images you can work out that the protagonist is actually all by himself; quite alone and in image 5 you can see another Planet (New Earth), which shows that this film has a ideas of science fiction and fantasy involved in it.

Genre/Suggestions: The basic genres are meant to be a drama, independent, sci-fi and fantasy. As I said before in the narrative image 5 shows another planet which has hints of sci-fi and fantasy.

Characters: You are able to first see the back of the character in image 6. You can’t exactly make out the character until image 7. As you can see he looks alone and you can also see that he is pondering. Joseph and I felt the character should have special abilities and is sent stays away from society because of it. He is a loner and that is the one word that sums it up. He dresses quite up in a casual state; but does have a few effects in his appearances that makes in looks a bit homeless, for example the beard.

Special Effects: We quite a bit of effects including colour correction. We have used a lot of special effects in our movie title and our “EdgeClub” title; we have used curves, optical flares, colour corrections, clouds and a whole lot of other effects using “Adobe After effects”. We were going to add a flying scene with after effects and green scene, but we felt a movie intro wouldn’t have it that soon throughout the film. I think the flying scene looked really realistic and we used keylight to give the best green screen effects possible. Another part we used special effects was in image 5; where we added another planet onto our sky. We just used a picture and blended it onto the sky; and tracked it using a null object so it would stay in place as the camera panned along. We also used a stretched optical flare for effect.

As you can see special effects did play an important role in our intro.