Evaluation

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

In a childrens film, there are certain conventions that create a structure so that the audience, children, can understand and easily follow the film. These conventions are : a setting, credits, music, an establishing shot, a theme, the introduction of characters and the establishment of the genre. As a childrens film, we had to use these conventions. We created music to go in the background of our clip as there was no dialogue. This sounds was empathetic; it reflected the mood of the characters on screen which aided the children to understand the storyline. To introduce the characters, we "created" them on screen. We thought this was a clever and creative way of introducing the characters so that it appealed to the audience. As we used iStopmotion, we did not really have a background but just a plain white canvas. This was not very appealing to a younger audience as they are attracted to bright colours. If we had more time to complete and edit our childrens film opening, we would have added credits that entertained the children through bright colours and interesting font.