Q1a: Understanding of conventions

Explain how far your understanding of the conventions of existing media influenced the way you created your own media products. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how this understanding developed over time.

In our preliminary task for AS we made a comedy film, Sweet Potato. This was made after we researched titles on a website called art of the title. This influenced the way we created our media product, Sweet Potato, as before this I had little knowledge of the conventions of titles in films. I also did not know that different genres used titles in different ways. So in this aspect Art of the Title was a huge part of my research for our film opening task.

Also to research our preliminary task, Sweet Potato, we looked at comedy films openings to identify any title conventions and to see how much narrative was given away in the opening. In our preliminary task our research consisted of watching other film openings. This improved massively in the time between our preliminary task and our final product, The EZ Life. At first we just watched the titles and tried to see if they were any similarities in the titles. Whereas for our opening the EZ Life we analysed titles thoroughly. I used software called time toast to make a timeline of the titles  this meant we could analyse the tiles in much more detail and resulted in me seeing a lot more conventions than we noticed for our preliminary task. 

Timetoast was easy to use as I had experience with it before to make timelines for History but I had not used some of the advanced features such as timing the presentation before.