Task 1

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

Our titles do not challenge forms and conventions of real media. However we as a group put a great deal of thought into how to portray our titles. We decided that because our video includes a lot of mise en scene our titles shouldn’t be to flashy in case they draw the focus away from the mise en scene in the video. So we tried to incorporate our titles into our sequence in a interesting way.

For example in this frame here in front of the iconic picture of Marilyn Monroe and the famous wig of her hair we put the name of our actress playing Marilyn Monroe. This lets the viewer connect the actress to the character she is playing.

As you can see in this frame the titles shows the name of the ‘Production Designer’. We put this here as at this specific point in the video you can see quite a lot of mise en scene. For example the laptop, pens, books, paper, camera and a board full of writing. This is a good way to incorporate this specific title as the production designer takes care of set design and mise en scene. Also in this shot as there is a laptop it is a good way to show that it is modern time.

This frame shows the title of the director of the film. We thought that this would be an interesting place to put this title as movies end up on a screen of some sort and by putting the director’s name in front of the television screen it helps the viewer connect the director to their visual job in reality.

We were going to put the title of the film ‘Monroe’ in the sixties camera as we thought it would be a nice transition from the modern day to the sixties. However it did not work well with the style of our video and disrupted the flow of the video.


This frame here shows the title of ‘Director of Photography’ we did this because at this part of the video there is an interesting track up the suspects board and therefore we thought it was appropriate to put this title in at this point.

This frame here shows that our film has a distribution company and as you can see in the title it is 'Fox Searchlight Pictures'.

This frame above shows that we have now moved into the 50's film set of the you can see this as Marilyn Monroe is wearing here dress from 'Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend' and she has the dancers round her. This portray to the audience that they are now in the 50's.