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Our media product uses forms and conventions of real media products with titles, music, characters, travelling and arriving, and the introduction to characters.

Conventions of film openings are things that occur a lot in movies, so much so that they become conventional. Conventions are the way they are because everything must have a strict order. The director is always last because they have put the whole film together and have the role of making sure the film works well for the target audience to watch.

For example, an ident:

Kidulthood:

Change:

Introduction to characters:

Kidulthood:

Change:

Travelling and Arriving:

Kidulthood:

Kidulthood didn't focus on travelling and arriving as much as we did

Change:

A film that does do travelling and arriving would be Donnie Darko.

We start off with the main characters first and who casts them because they hold a greater importance in the film compared to other characters, for example, backing characters. In our film opening we made sure Durim, who played our main character, was the first person to be seen and his name was our first title too.

Unlike Kidulthood, we put the title after some footage of the main character. Kidulthood had the title before any action or character was seen.

We have followed most conventions like the ones above including music too. We used music with no lyrics because it doesn't draw the attention away from the actual film opening, just like Kidulthood did.