Creative Critical

Reflection

Before you watch my slide show please come to this website first.  It has an animated video to reflect a introduction of my creative critical reflection  

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  Q1.  How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

From the begging of my planing I have decided to choose mystery detective as my Main genre. I have researched the code & convention of mystery detective genre. The typical

narrative structure, firstly we need to have a equilibrium to start the story. Secondly,  the problem occur (for example characters get in trouble).Then detective goes to the scene to collect some evident that the circumstances together. Finally create a new equilibrium ( these new equilibrium usually telling the audience that the file  closed or happy ending).

After I created my opening sequence I changed my mind to change my genre as crime & fantasy comedy. I have research some opening sequences in this website www.artofthetitle.com  I have searched 2 opening sequence which are the Sin city and 

Snatch, both of the genre are mainly focus on crime and also they have points out the similarities of the aesthetic code (e.g. they have used black in colour in their text of star appeals) .Black colour is a symbolic of the evil or crime that connote the audience that the people are either a gangster or thieves. More over it shows the iconography of the mise-en-scene (e.g. props).From both of the opening sequences they both used guns as their props. 

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/sin-city/     http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/snatch/

I have recorded 3 or times for each shots which gives me more than chose to find the best version of it shots to put in the opening sequence.Most of my lighting setting I used dim light and shadow because it create a exciting atmosphere .Due to the fact both of my characters that acted in my opening sequence were special armed police so they could wear casually in the open sequence. I have used  cross dissolve, speed up/ slow motion, lightning , time remaping, equalize, fast colour corrector and volume. Most of my editing settings are mainly  used to correct the colour to dim colour/ light and the speed up and slow motion used to draw audience attention more over the lightning is use to connote the audiences that the special armed police can used special power.Finally, the volume effect is use to help the audience can able to hear clearly during the conversation and the voice over.I have also used flash back in my opening sequence ( flash back is a effect to indicate the audience that what is happening before the scene or story. I have tried to challenge the genre by produce two versions of the opening sequence. After I uploaded my first version of my opening sequence , I noticed that the dialogue in the clip is not clear enough because the back ground music is too loud it covered the dialogue during the conversation in the the opening sequence .Also, I realized that I need to create a background music not just download someone’s song. More over, from the first version the color of the effect and the lighting effect is not as good as I expect so I redo the part I did wrong again. I have increase the volume of the sound by adding volume effect twice in each shot that contain voice over, dialogue and back ground music because from the first version we can hear the sound track is covered over the voice of the dialogue and voice over. More over I have changes all the colour correction effects almost the same as each shots which create a a continuity editing to help the audience to follow the story/ opening sequence. An additionally, I have set most of my lighting setting as dim light and shadow because it create a exciting atmosphere .

 Q1.   How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?