This is the film trailer that I have produced for my final product and have uploaded to YouTube in order for my target audience to watch my trailer. The narrative of this film trailer consists of a young footballer trying to make it as a professional but he encounters some adversity on his journey. One of his biggest adversities is that he is under pressure from his girlfriend to become a professional footballer. His coach offers him the motivation he needs to pursue his dream of becoming a professional footballer. In summary, it is a film trailer for a coming of age sports biopic about the journey of a young footballer on his pathway to success, which is achieving his dream of becoming a professional footballer, while overcoming any adversities that he encounters.
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Evaluation 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My media product uses forms and conventions of real media products because it has a journey narrative of the main character trying to be successful while coming from adversity. More specifically, it follows the story of a young footballer trying to become successful while under pressure to make it from his girlfriend, coach and any other adversity that comes his way. This type of narrative is common in many sports films and is also popular with cinema audiences because a lot of people enjoy watching an underdog come from adversity to achieve in whatever it is that they are trying to do. For example, Rocky (1976) is an archetypal film of overcoming adversity and problems to reach success. The narrative is an aspiring boxer called Rocky Balboa training to fight the world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed. He manages to go the full 15 rounds with the world champion, knocking him down once which was the first time Creed was knocked down in his career, but ends up losing on a split decision. Although Rocky lost the fight, my product still uses forms and conventions seen in the Rocky film because it shows a narrative of a young aspiring footballer trying to overcome personal problems to reach potential success within football. This is similar to Rocky (1976) as the iconic film follows the story of a young aspiring boxer overcoming adversities while also trying to reach success in his sport but primarily in this film, trying to win against the world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed.
A further way in which my media product uses forms and conventions of real media products is through the use of close up camera shots and mid shots to indicate that the genre of my film trailer is a sports biopic. This is because sports biopics are always personal stories so it makes sense for this type of film to have a lot of close up shots and mid shots in order to illustrate the personal details of the main character's life story.
When creating my film poster, I included forms and conventions of real media products in this ancillary product because I have taken inspiration from actual film posters that belong to the similar genre as my final product which is a football biopic. This includes basic codes and conventions of film posters such as the film title, main image, tagline, credits and others. However, I researched to see how these conventions of film posters where used in my genre of a football biopic in order to decide how I could use this in my final product or how to amend them to suit my own film trailer narrative. For example, one of the film posters that I researched was for Goal! The Dream Begins and this includes a main image of the main character dressed in a black tracksuit top while holding his football towards his head with his eyes closed. When I was producing my film poster, I decided to to take a different route in terms of the design which challenged some of the forms and conventions in the sports biopic genre. This is because I wanted to create something that would fit the narrative of my film trailer and be different to the existing football biopic posters. Moreover, I chose to use multiple images on the one poster and they where all different yet the images still had a connection to the narrative of my final film trailer. One of the images located at the top of my poster is a group of palm trees on the sides of a road in Los Angeles and this included on my film poster because living in LA is one of the main character's goals when he reaches a high level of success. It fits with the conventions of my narrative because it is a popular dream among most footballers and people in general to live in LA as it indicates 'making it' and reaching the pinnacle of your life.
When creating my film magazine front cover, I made sure that I incorporated the basic forms and conventions of real life media products which includes basic components such as having a main image, masthead, cover lines, anchorage text and others. This allowed me to have a good basis to work from and create a high quality ancillary product that connects well with my main product and my other ancillary product. The magazine covers that I researched for my ancillary task mainly consisted of sports magazine front covers because the genre of my film trailer is a sports biopic and I wanted to produce something that followed the conventions of my final product. For example, this Score magazine front cover has cover lines that relate to football and fitness such as 'running tips' and 'world's best players'. I took inspiration from these cover lines and used these conventions of a real media product when creating my magazine front cover. I used the conventions of this real media product by creating my own cover lines based off the magazine that I researched. Some of the cover lines that I produced include: 'Top tips on dribbling on Messi - page 25', '25 ways to improve your sports nutrition on page 40' and 'Stars of World At Your Feet talk life on set and future aspirations - page 35'. This allows me to create a magazine cover that suits the conventions of a sport magazine cover as it has cover lines and title that relate to football but this also connects well to my main product because it's a film trailer for a football biopic.
A further way in which my media product uses forms and conventions of real media products is through the use of close up camera shots and mid shots to indicate that the genre of my film trailer is a sports biopic. This is because sports biopics are always personal stories so it makes sense for this type of film to have a lot of close up shots and mid shots in order to illustrate the personal details of the main character's life story.
When creating my film poster, I included forms and conventions of real media products in this ancillary product because I have taken inspiration from actual film posters that belong to the similar genre as my final product which is a football biopic. This includes basic codes and conventions of film posters such as the film title, main image, tagline, credits and others. However, I researched to see how these conventions of film posters where used in my genre of a football biopic in order to decide how I could use this in my final product or how to amend them to suit my own film trailer narrative. For example, one of the film posters that I researched was for Goal! The Dream Begins and this includes a main image of the main character dressed in a black tracksuit top while holding his football towards his head with his eyes closed. When I was producing my film poster, I decided to to take a different route in terms of the design which challenged some of the forms and conventions in the sports biopic genre. This is because I wanted to create something that would fit the narrative of my film trailer and be different to the existing football biopic posters. Moreover, I chose to use multiple images on the one poster and they where all different yet the images still had a connection to the narrative of my final film trailer. One of the images located at the top of my poster is a group of palm trees on the sides of a road in Los Angeles and this included on my film poster because living in LA is one of the main character's goals when he reaches a high level of success. It fits with the conventions of my narrative because it is a popular dream among most footballers and people in general to live in LA as it indicates 'making it' and reaching the pinnacle of your life.
When creating my film magazine front cover, I made sure that I incorporated the basic forms and conventions of real life media products which includes basic components such as having a main image, masthead, cover lines, anchorage text and others. This allowed me to have a good basis to work from and create a high quality ancillary product that connects well with my main product and my other ancillary product. The magazine covers that I researched for my ancillary task mainly consisted of sports magazine front covers because the genre of my film trailer is a sports biopic and I wanted to produce something that followed the conventions of my final product. For example, this Score magazine front cover has cover lines that relate to football and fitness such as 'running tips' and 'world's best players'. I took inspiration from these cover lines and used these conventions of a real media product when creating my magazine front cover. I used the conventions of this real media product by creating my own cover lines based off the magazine that I researched. Some of the cover lines that I produced include: 'Top tips on dribbling on Messi - page 25', '25 ways to improve your sports nutrition on page 40' and 'Stars of World At Your Feet talk life on set and future aspirations - page 35'. This allows me to create a magazine cover that suits the conventions of a sport magazine cover as it has cover lines and title that relate to football but this also connects well to my main product because it's a film trailer for a football biopic.
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