Conventions Developed

Typography

Whilst looking at other popular coming of age film's typography, it seemed common for the style, font and size of the typography in the credits to be clean and simple. We followed this style of typography, using a smooth, white font in all capitals in order to make the text as easy to read for the audience as possible. Another popular pattern we noticed in these films was that each separate line of text only lasted for the duration of one shot - never overlapping. When making our typography we kept this in mind, as well as only having the text appearing in slower paced scenes. Lastly, we followed the typical order of typography that was seen in the coming of age films, with the most important of the crew (director) appearing last.

Shot Types

From our extensive research into popular coming of age films we learned that the wide range of shots and interesting cinematography was a big part of what these films so appealing to audiences. In our opening sequence we wanted to include various shot techniques that we had learned throughout the course, as well as some that we seen in these films ourselves. For example, in the opening of Ferris Bueller's Day Off there is a shot where we see his parents from the protagonist's perspective. We included a range of these unique shots such as POV's and camera pans, as well as some more common shots such as short, medium and long.

Producers and Distributors

In our opening sequence we chose what we thought were the most appropriate producers and distributors for what we were aiming for/targeting. We ended up using Rogue Pictures, as they are a relatively small-medium sized company known for their action/thriller films. It is important that we didn't use any of the major companies, as this is a low budget film production. Rogue Pictures was a good choice because it gives the audience a general idea of what the film may be like if they'd previously seen any of their productions.