1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

People’s diseases aren’t very spoken of in films, but the few that have, did very well in the film industry. One of these films was Forest Gump; which would be similar to the kind of film I am aiming to represent in my film opening, using images of the character’s childhood until his adulthood and his major turn over in his life. This is one of a few films that actually have become very famous around the world, apart from for example the Note Book, which described by one of the people I surveyed, is very similar to Tangled Strings.


And less relevant, in the opening sequence of Harry Potter and The half Blood Prince, in which there’s a shot in which Harry has pictures taken of him, set in the last film (Harry Potter and The Gobblin of Fire), so the viewer can recap from the last film as if it was a continuation – which would link in to my film opening being a back-story to the rest of the film, sort of “setting the scene”.

I put my film under Drama as a genre, but to be more specific about the kind of drama used in my film I did some research and came up with the perfect subgenre for my film, which was psychological drama. This is because the flashback colouring reflects his mind distorting his memories, and so the viewer also comes into the picture as they are drawn into his mind through the effects used and become involved “in his world”. There would also be an element of tragedy in this film, but this only occurs with the most recent memories, the “adult” memories, which symbolises that something bad has happened around that time for his happy memories to change appearance in his head so dramatically (we can tell the perception in his mind has changed as some memories are shot from his point of view; eg- from Ashley to Rachel smiling to him, and also the editing in the more recent memories are changed when at the end of each flashback the colours dramatically change into fluorescent & bright colourings).


The music used in my film is similar to the credit sequence in films such as The Titanic, Narnia; the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Momento – they are all very dramatic music tracks used, and I thought this would represent the story of Tangled Strings without actually telling the overall story


Also, I created my own Productions logo for my film as I wanted it be seemed more realistic as a whole, and therefore using real media conventions.


The name I chose for my logo is “World View Productions”, which is similar to “Universal Productions” as a name.

It is represented with a colourful iris with the world as the pupil of the eye it forms. The background is the rest of the universe in which the eye/world is in.

The theme music I chose for my logo was the beginning of “Another Part of Me” by Michael Jackson. It seemed to me and a few other media students in my classroom I asked their opinion on about this track for this cause, to be very similar to what another real media product would use to represent their Productions logo.

In this case, the “World View Productions” logo, I found, captured the viewers’ attention to watch the film – maybe due to it looking so colourful and unusual.