A/S Media Studies – Write up GuideG321 – Evaluation of ‘………’ Opening Sequence

Part 1 - Brief (200 words) (Blog Entry)• What brief were you are working to?• Explain the title and what happens in your opening sequence making reference to

the treatment? (don’t be too descriptive)• Explain the sub genre

Part 2 – Who would be the audience for your product?• Who are the target audience - habits/lifestyle/media consumption (not

just/age/gender/skin colour)• What pre- production research did you conduct with them?• How did you use it?

Part 4 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (500 words or equivalent /Annotate on You Tube/ Directors commentary)

This is a textual analysis section demonstrating how you have used the codes and conventions of thrillers.You need to link this to real texts you watched as part of your planning and research

Here you highlight the main features/signs/conventions of your text to demonstrate to the examiner that you have understood the role of an opening sequence and to show that you understand thriller codes and conventions.

You might wish to deal with some of the following:

• Narrative (how have you established a plot?)• Genre (where does it look like a thriller?)• camera, angle, shot movement and position• continuity & editing (verisimilitude?)• sound • mise-en-scene/ expressionism (lighting; colour)• typography • iconography• anchorage• indexical/ iconic/ arbitrary signs

Part 3 – What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? • Use real examples of companies• Use examples of thriller films/ same audience films they have distributed• Use your knowledge of film distribution you learnt for Film4