Opening Credits Sequence Evaluation

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

• Through our opening credits, we attempted to challenge the traditional convention of class and status of social order.

• We did this by reversing the roles of stereotypical characters – the main character wearing a suit is the murderer, therefore challenging the perception that as he is wearing a suit he is a typical middle class working man. On the other hand, his victim is wearing baggy clothes, reversing the stereotype that would usually surround this character.

• However, we also tried to use the idea of gangsters and organised crime by developing the convention surrounding these social groups. We aimed for our OCS to imitate and have similarities to the real media products we based our production on such as ‘Goodfellas’, ‘This is England’ and several others, and managed to develop them by adding a slight psychotic feel to the main character.

• Last of all, we managed to use the existing conventions in obvious ways, seeing as at some periods during our production there were no alterations to the intended personalities of the two characters. We used these conventions of Gangsters, horror and organised crime to base our OCS on.