Evaluation- in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My groups and I's film opening uses many adaptations of the conventions of film openings, to begin our clip begins with a panning shot with a shot of the protagonists back, this presents a sense of enigma as the audience face many questions to do with the boy whose identity is yet to be reviled to create many questions about the clip. We also created an aspect of character throughout the opening. the use of Mise-en-scene linked with a teenage boy such as; books, films and different food types normally related to the younger generation. This lets us reveal him gradually to the audience therefore also enhancing the enigma. The certain types of dvds and books create a 'nerdy' atmosphere which applies to perhaps his personality and due to over sound of music can secure this. Character is also established through his clothing. We incorporated a stereotypical teenager look such as a black t-shirt, jeans and glasses.

We also established a sense of time and location, to begin there is a shot of a alarm clock which present the time to be 12:19 to coincide with the title of 'nineteen minutes'. This conforms to the usual conventions of a film opening as it present the time. Lastly we established location by using the mise-en-scene. By this we used american associated sweets such as Hershey's and Baby Ruth. But overall we used an end sequence that revealed the actual location to the audience and is used to further on the story, it shows 'Sterling, March 6 2007'. Therefore i believe that we established all conventions of a film opening.