Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of a real media product?

The opening sequence to our film 'magnus opium' follows the forms and conventions of a real media product of the same sort, this is because it creates enigmas to entice people into watching the movie further, to find out what all this is about.

one of the things that our product has in common with the 'real' products would be the advertisement of the production company. In our case the combination of Zebra Animations and Art House Productions. The introduction of the main character within the title sequence. The titles displaying the help enlisted to make the film such as director, editor, producer etc.
The soundtrack, although sounding echoy and dirty, give an extra ery feel to the title sequence, aswell as the black and white sketch. The visual effect i would say compares to a 'real' product as we chose to do this upon seeing the title sequence to juno where this sketch effect has been used, although a different genre alltogether, i feel it has just as good an impact as the juno title sequence.
Also the fade to black which we used at the end of the title sequence to merge it with the begining of the film runs smooth, but has that element to pull the audience away from the enigmas raised from the title sequence and bring them to what is currently taking place within the film, which i believe many films have done in the past.