Monday, 3 April 2017

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways do your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products

Our film incorporates the generic conventions of our genre which is mockumentary because there are mockumentary generic conventions such as the dialogue being used which is adding comedy into the scene, another generic convention of mockumentary is that the viewer will know that this a comedic documentary when they first see the opening of the film. There will be interviews in the film that are light hearted and comedic. We have used these generic conventions of mockumentaries in our film because in the image to the left we used the transition fade in and out to show everyone laughing already showing that this is not going to be a serious documentary because it is a mockumentary. We have also used another generic convention of mockumentaries and that is to have an interview during the film opening and this is where we introduce the four characters who are in this squad and we show this during the last part of our film where the characters are answering some questions.

Our film titles are quite different to what most other film opening titles would be like because in our film our director comes halfway through the title sequence after the names of the characters and the rest of the staff are introduce but after the name of the director is shown, the actual names of the characters and their rank are shown on the screen.  




Most mockumentaries start with some small text like the two examples shown which are What We Do In The Shadows and Tropic Thunder but are film opening is different because at the start of our film opening we show each of our characters through the use of the transition called fade in and out.

Monday, 20 February 2017

My own institutional logo for our production company

My own institutional logo for our production company

This my own institutional logo I created for our production company, it is a suit and a tie with the name the of the production company suit and tie productions around the top of it.

Monday, 13 February 2017

Research on institutional logos

Research on institutional logos

With a mainstream institutional logo you expect to see the logo moving around the screen with a world famous name but with an independent institutional logo you would expect to see a logo just appear on the screen and then disappear again because mainstream institutions like Universal have more money than independent institutions such as Warp Films.




The difference between the two institutional logos is that the mainstream logo is moving around the screen and the independent logo is just staying still in the middle of the screen. The independent logo is just white text on a black screen whereas the mainstream logo has the whole world on it.

This will help me when it comes to making my own film opening because it shows me what independent and mainstream institutional logos look like and what are one will have to be like.

Friday, 10 February 2017

Our production company

Our production company

In our group we decided to be an independent company because as we are making a mockumentary of past events to do with the war this would only be made for a small specific audience who find mockumentaries about past events satirical.

This will help when it comes to making our own film opening because it shows that we are aiming this at quite a small audience.

Thursday, 9 February 2017

Films that have influenced me

Films that have influenced me

Charlie Brookers 2016 wipe and Dads Army influenced me and my group to make a mockumentary film opening.

A film that has influenced me and taught me important life lessons is Finding Nemo. A few important life lessons it taught was that you should always listen to your parents because they want to keep you safe at all times and that your parents will not give on up on you as shown in Finding Nemo. This will help me when it comes to my own film opening because it shows me what kind of film influenced me.

Monday, 6 February 2017

Extra research on my genre and audience

Extra research on my genre and audience

Some mockumentary TV series are very successful for example the mockumentary TV series Parks and Recreation was once the number one TV series of the year and a another mockumentary called Modern Family has won 18 primetime emmy awards.

The genre mockumentary that we are doing in our film is a subgenre of comedy. Mockumentaries can also be known as docucomedies. The term mockumentary originated in the 1960s but in the 1980s it become more popular because of the film This Is Spinal Tap and its director Rob Reiner who used the word mockumentary to describe his own film in a radio interview.



This will help me when it comes to making my own film opening because it gives me extra knowledge on our chosen genre.

Sunday, 5 February 2017

A timeline of titles from a film in my chosen genre

A timeline of titles from a film in my chosen genre



For my timeline of titles from my chosen genre which is mockumentary I chose to do the film The Flying Scissors.


This will help me when it comes to making my own mockumentary because it shows me what type of music I should play to fit a mockumentary and how to put the titles in that way.