Jack Wickes Evaluation

Q1.In what ways does your media opening title sequence use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real opening title sequences?

Our opening title sequence is a typical thriller/horror and this is portrayed in the;

- Fast Paced Editing
- Fast Paced Soundtrack
- Images of Post-mortem Photo’s
- Equipment and visual effects

We did not challenge the codes and conventions of real media production, we displayed the names and titles in a linear fashion to follow the flow of a typical title sequence.

Q2.How does your opening title sequence represent particular social groups?

We don’t feel that our opening title sequence represents a certain social group, and we didn’t aim for one.

Q3.What kind of media institution might distribute your opening title sequence and why?

As we did not have expensive filming equipment or a very detailed set, the title sequence was made on an extremely low budget and we used what we could find, as a result of this I don’t feel that it would get nominations for awards or anything of that sort.

If the title sequence was distributed then it would depict our film and possibly it would get higher ratings, possible production companies might include New Line Cinema or Working Title films that would distribute our product.

Q4.Who would be the audience for your opening sequence?

I feel the title sequence, as it is a horror/thriller, would be aimed mostly at teenagers or aged 16-25 which is the age group that mostly watch horror films. And I think it would depend on the person taste in films but it would suit both male and female expectation of a horror/thriller title sequence.

Q5.How did you attract/address your audience?

To target our audience we used an intuiting narrative of revenge and murder, we used very quick editing and had flashes of images (post-mortem photos) that were almost subliminal, and they are imprinted on the audiences mind and makes them build a visual image, together with the fast pace music that draws the audience in and makes them slightly tense, then when its over you suddenly realise and gently relax.

Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this opening sequence?

My main thing I’ve leant through this project has been how to use Final Cut Pro. I hadn’t had much experience with the program before this, but I had used cameras and other editing software, although we did experiment with camera angle’s and positions.

E-Blogger is a something I had never used before, and I quickly picked up how to use it and found it very useful to document progress of the project and is more useful than using a sketchbook as you can have images/video clips/ web links and all sorts of other stuff that you cant have on a paper based document.

Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progress from it to the full product?

From the preliminary task I have learnt more/better editing skills using Final Cut Pro, camera work, casting and patience, it takes time to get something right and get something the way you want it.

We did have to re-shoot parts of the preliminary task and the title sequence to get it the way we wanted, some camera angle didn’t work and position was wrong, but it was sometimes a problem re-shooting in the locations as it was a regularly used room.

Overall we have enjoyed the project as a whole and we would do it again. If we were then we would choose a different genre of film and possible try to challenge the codes and conventions, we have leant quite a bit during the time we have spent on it and will leave with more knowledge that we started.