QUESTION 1in what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media

products?

THE TITLE OF THE FILMThe title of our short film ‘Terror Plane’ sticks firmly to the conventions of the thriller genre. The title is very self explanatory to the overall scenario of the film and tells the audience that there will in fact be a disaster on the plane. We have decided to follow the trend of the similar flight based film ‘Flight’ in order to follow the natural trend of other films. This should make our film sound professional and realistic.

SETTING AND LOCATIONThere are several settings and locations for our film. various locations are all based around the same house but with the power of cinematography, we have made the house look middle eastern and we have also made it look like two different settings in order to fit the two different characters ‘Brian’ and ‘Susan’. In a way we have gone against the normal conventions of media by having our two characters starting in different settings and then ending up in the same setting at the final scene. Unlike other groups, we went out of our way to contact places such as the Bournemouth Aviation Museum to request filming permission. We were later contacted by the Aviation Museum and they authorised our request for filming permission. We also contacted Bournemouth Airport asking asking for filming permission although they denied our request and wished us well with our project.

COSTUMES AND PROPSIn our film we went against the conventions of stereotypical terrorist apparel. This meant that our radicalised character ‘Brian’ was to wear casual clothing including a shirt, jeans, and leather jacket. We decided upon this in order to make him seem less suspicious on the plane. When it came to deciding upon Susan’s outfit, we chose to stick to middle class conventions and therefore have her wearing casual clothing, much the same as ‘Brian’.

CINEMATOGRAPHY AND EDITINGWhilst in the production stage of our

project, we used many different artistic shots with the camera cinematography. We did this for two reasons. The first reason was so that we could showcase a range of different shots which we had learned and secondly we decided to get some abstract shots due to there being obstacles within the scenes of which we had to try and get rid of by using artistic camera angles.

When it came to editing our film, we decided to go against the natural convention and instead of showing just one frame on the screen, we decided to show two frames making our project split-screen. We did this because we wanted to show the audience that although there are two very different characters on the screen, they are both doing a mirror image of each other. This process is unique to conventions and definitely sets us apart from other films of the same genre.

TITLE FONT AND STYLE• The font that we used in Terror Plane was ‘Roadway’ which is displayed in the image to the right. We chose this font due to being the midpoint between subtle, and and elaborate. The font is more masculine than feminine and sets our film apart from other productions due to the powerful look of the font. The addition of Arabic incorporated into the english adds a foreign flare to our film which merges into the multicultural vibe of our film.

STORY AND SET UPThe story that our film opening sets up is about a man called Brian and a woman named Susan. Brian is a radicalised young man who has been tasked with blowing up the plane which he is going to board. Susan, however, is a war correspondent in the same place as Brian is based.

Brian and Susan used to have a relationship before he joined a terrorist group in Iraq. What neither of these characters realise is that they are both getting the same flight back to Gatwick, England.

The main plot of the story will be a struggle of whether Brian will go forward with his mission of blowing up the plane, or will attempt to rekindle his love with Susan, who has since moved on.

GENRE AND HOW THE OPENING SUGGESTS ITWe have decided to go out

of the box with the genre for our film. After much discussion, we decided that Romantic Thriller best suits our film premise.

The romantic side of our film is portrayed by the dwelling relationship between ‘Brian’ and ’Susan’. the thriller side of our film opening however, is suggested through the inclusion of the bomb threats and terrorist motives.

HOW CHARACTERS ARE INTRODUCEDBoth ‘Susan’ and ‘Brian’ are

introduced at the same time due to our projects split-screen effect. The first shot that the viewer gets of these characters is a shot of ‘Brian’ shaving, and a shot of ‘Susan’ using mouthwash. As the film opening progresses, the viewer will begin to realise slight differences in their preparations for their flight. These differences include the contrast of packing clothes and toothbrushes, to bombs and flip phones.

SPECIAL EFFECTSOur film opening offers no 3D special effects although it does offer the unique utilisation of split-screen. We wanted to keep out our project very realistic and clean and therefore didn't include any outrageous three-dimensional graphics which would clutter the screen and take away from the realism factor of our production. By using split-screen, we were able to show the audience what both people are doing with seamless integration.