Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In comparison with other real film openings, I believe that there are some obvious similarities between real media products of a thriller genre and our film opening.

It is obvious from the evidence above that our film opening titles shows a sign of creativity and also builds a sense of dark and loneliness which fits in with the genre very well and will interest or maybe suspend our audience, this is very typical of a real film opening in this particular genre.
Also, the music piece we have used in our film opening creates a real eery feeling of suspense which also makes it seem like a real film opening as it is very common for a real film opening to create such an eery feeling.
The genre, being thriller/horror had to be presented clearly, we tried to bring this across with big bold titles that show clearly the producers and the companies but also bring the genre across well which is brought through in our dark and mysterious titles. Also we tried to make our opening seem effective by having short clips of film then straight into a title, then another short clip of filming then into another title. we did this three times to show our creativity which in many was is similar to lots of real film openings.
Our film opening is very obvious and recognisbale as belongnig to the genre of thriller/horror. This is shown through the mis ene scence which is very dark at the beginging and gives a sense of enigma as to why the girl is runnung and what she is running away from. This makes our film opening seem very real as many real media products if this genre start with a similar story line and give a sense of enigma, this is very typical and common in a real film opening.

Also, our use of editing and jump cuts brings across that the character is confused and rehabilitated which relates to our genre of film. This is also very typical of a real film opening, to get the audience interested and feel connected to the character and make them care about her and her feelings is what a real film would aim for

Typically a real film opening shows details of cast and crew, the film title and the Production companies, this helps the main characters of the movie be recognised and given credit for their work. I feel that we covered all of this in our film opening which allows it to be viewed as a real film opening.

These conventions are very important in making a film opening recognisable as a real film in its specific genre. We didnt try to challenge these conventions too much as we realised the main conventions obviously do good in a film opening and sell the story well. However we felt the need to break the law of continuity by using a few jump cuts in the last scene. we decided this was a good way to let the audience know our character is confused and we tried to bring real emotion through and effect our audience.