Similar products and convections research.

 The genre of our final product will be a thriller. It will be a thriller with some elements of action, however, there will not be as many action elements included, so we decided that we will have one main genre -- thriller and sub-genre thriller with elements of action within it.   

In order to be able to analyze and compare some of the media products, I have decided to choose four different media products from three different areas that are related to our opening titled sequence. I chose four products from films, TV shows, and a video game.

Starting with the similar film(s) I have decided to look at the film Peppermint that was distributed for the first time in 2018 and it was directed by Pierre Morel, The top-billed cast was as following: Jennifer Garner, John Gallagher Jr., John Ortiz. And the film was distributed by STXfilms. 

In order to be able to identify how is this product similar to the concept of our opening scene, I have watched a trailer for the film.  And from the thriller, it is clear that the main character is the same as we see our main character in the sequence we will be filming. A strong, independent woman. She is strong both physically and mentally. Continuing with the narrative of the film, I believe that the narrative only similar in the fact that she is taking revenge on everyone who killed her family, whereas in our film the main character is also taking revenge but on people who did something not so good to her or her friends in the past. 

The other thing that is likely to be in our sequence that is in the film is the camera techniques such as tracking shots, handheld camera, and low/high camera angles, and the rest. Because both our sequence and the film 'Peppermint' are action/thriller genre. 

Here is a trailer for the film, where I got screenshots and references from the film. 

The second film that has some similar things to our final idea is the film that everyone from my production group decided to do.  The film is 'Drive' which was distributed in 2011 by the Film district.

  Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and the top-billed cast was Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, and Bryan Cranston.  In order to be able to identify how is this product similar to the concept of our opening scene, I have watched a thriller for the film.  The actual concept of the film is not similar to the concept of our opening sequence. The main character of the film 'Drive' is a man, whereas, in our sequence, it is a woman. The things in the film that are pretty much the same as the concept of our idea are the camera techniques that have been used, even some scenes are the same. Like the scene where Ryan's character is kicking the villain

is the same moment that we will have in our final product and the fight also happens in the lift like in our idea.  The film also itself includes a lot of cut editing transitions and a synchronous soundtrack which we would like to use in editing our own opening sequence. 

It is also noticeable through the trailer that most of the scenes are filmed from the handheld camera, which is one of the techniques of filming that my group and I would like to use on the shoot day. The theme of the film and the narrative is not the same as our concept and idea. although, the color scheme and the costumes with props that have been used throughout the main part of the film are pretty much what we would like to see in the concept of our opening sequence.  Overall, the camera work, some scenes, editing approach, and costumes are similar to our concept of the opening sequence. 

Here is a trailer for the film:

Apart from looking at the similar films as our predicted opening sequence and in order to have a wider range of examples I have chosen to also talk about the TV series. 

The name of the series is 'You' it has been distributed for the first time in 2018 and it was created by Sera Gamble and Greg Berlanti, the top cast is Penn Badgley, Victoria Pedretti, and Ambyr Childers.  The TV show is distributed by the cooperation of Netflix and Lifetime Television, an American TV channel.  

By watching the trailer for the first season it is clear that the plotline, and characters are not gong to be any way near to the plot line or characters of our concept. However, with this TV show, the concept of our opening sequence has the same theme of an innocent main character which later on opens up as a bad one. Also the costumes, light, and color scheme of the whole TV series are similar to what we would like to see in our concept of the opening sequence. In our concept, we would like to see characters in light colored, basic clothes, like in this TV Show, and the same color/lighting scheme. Consequently, in this TV show there are also numerous editing techniques that me and my production group would like to use in the editing of our final product. A lot of fade to black traditions and cuts, eye-line matches as well.  Concluding this product has some similar aspects to our concept. of the opening sequence. 

In order to be able to identify whether or not there are similar things with my group's concept I have decided to watch a trailer for that TV show. 

In order to have a wider range of examples I have also decided to look at the similar in conseptual way video game. It is slightly different to a film or/and TV show. Although, it still have similar. The game that I think have similar conventions with our concept is ' Shadow of Tomb Rider'.

That part of the game was distributed in 2018, it was distributed by Crystal Dynamics in the United States and in the rest of the world apart from Canada, in Canada the game was distributed by Eidos Montreal. The main cast of the people whos voice you can hear during the game was from the following actors: Camilla Luddington, Earl Baylon, Carlos Leal and Erika Soto.  

 Because of the fact that most of the games genre thriller are lset not in the casual site. So it was tricky to find something that is very close to our concept. However, this game includes some similar elements to our main idea. As for all of the product that I did research on I have watched the thriller for the game in order to be able to spot the similarities. The main thing that is similar to our concept is the fact that the main charchtar is a strong, wild, independent woman. Who is ready to do anything in order to survive. In our concept, however, we ave that same strong, independent woman, but in our idea she is not wild and does not require any sort of die or live day-to-day bases.

The other thing that is similar with that concept of our opening sequence is the use of editing techniques of camera. Due to the fact that the game is action/thriller genre it includes a lot eye-line match techniques and also there are a lot hand held and tracking shots, like we are planning to have in our concept of the opening sequence. 

In order to be able to identify whether or not there are similar things with my group's concept, I have decided to watch a trailer for that video game.