Real Media Products
Our Media Product
1. (Title) Our title sequence is inspired by the title sequence in Narc. It starts with a blank screen and the credits appear and fade on the screen. In Narc they credits are slightly delayed which creates the feeling of importance as the audience and forced to focus on the screen. We used the same technique in our media product "Never Forget" as we though that the suspense of the names makes the first image that is shown more important.
2. (Location) This shot a torture scene in the game of GTA 5 shows a character being tortured in a dark, dingy basement.This shot allows the audience to see the person being interrogated looking vulnerable as the surroundings are quite claustrophobic. For our own media product we tried to incorporate the same claustrophobic feeling in our interrogation scene. We selected an area which had twisting spikes above and was fairly closed in with dirty brick walls.
3.(Camera work & Editing) This camera effects are almost identical in their impact on the audience. This shot is taken from Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York when the character of Bill (the butcher) is introduced. The shot plays around with the expectations of the audience and has quiet a disturbing effect. We wanted to create the same disturbing effect for our protagonist's flashback so we recreated the shot to show the location where something horrific occurred.
4.(Costume and Props) The real media product "Good fellas" shows two the characters wearing suits. By wearing all black suits we thought that it would suit the conventions of typical gangsta films such as Goodfellas. Also as the colour black is associated with death and sorrow it is mainly associated with funerals. The suits make the characters look more menacing as stereo-typically some gangstas are known for wanting to look presentable and dressing in suits. Good fellas follows the convention of a classic gangsta film so we were inspire by that.
5.(Story & narrative) The narrative of an urban-thriller/gangsta film such as ours is the story of a character trying to forget and move away from their past. Although the real media product "The Butterfly Effect" does not contain the genre of a urban-gangsta film, it en captures the perfect thriller. It also tackles the same internal conflicts as our protagonist as they are both trying to forget their bad pasts but are failing to do so as the memory gives them recurring flashbacks.
6.(Introduction to characters) We also took the introduction of Narc main character to introduce our main character. The main character is the first person that is show to the audience which helps them identify who's story they are going to be following. A close up shot is used to show that the audience is trying to get into the main characters head. The shot tells the audience that something bad has happened. However, the other characters are introduced through flashbacks. The music used in the flashback is used again when the other characters enter the room to show a unsettling connection between the protagonist and the other characters.
7.(Title, Font, Style) The cracked font in the real media product "Narc" makes the audience feel uneasy and foreshadows that what they are about to watch will contain unsettling scene and make them feel uncomfortable. Like Narc we used the a similar font and colour scheme of white on black.The white font against the black screen also follows the convention of gangsta films.
8.(Special Effects) In the real media product "The Butterfly Effect" before the protagonist has a flashback all the colours are pulled into the center which makes the audience feel as though they they are being pulled into the story aswell. We would have loved to use the same effect, however, that option was not available for us as we did not have the software or the knowledge. Instead of that transition we used the white fade instead.
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