In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)

I have entitled my film 'Brothers in Arms', which is a reference to the Dire Straits song , but it also describes the three friends who grow up together in the film, who are now 'in arms'. The title suits the feel of the sequence also: it is sombre and unassuming. I wanted to use a very simple font, because the independent feel to the film necessitates minimalism: the stripped-down, 'Less is More' approach. In keeping with this ideal, i adopted a white-on-black colour scheme for the title - i felt other colours would clutter the eye. For the Setting of the film i chose my own farm because this was central to the whole idea of the film - it is based around 'rural decay' and the idea that life can be much more free in the country than the city. This challenges the conventional concept of the countryside being a place solely for rearing animals and growing crops, and along with this the stereotypical idea of the country bumpkin. My film also has a thriller edge to it, with the idea that very little information is given away at the beginning and revealed as the film goes on. The sole individual product that most influenced my film would have to be Dead Man's Shoes, although Snatch and Kidulthood also had their influences.