Evaluation

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


In my media production i and two students made a opening film sequence. In our horror sequence we tried to use forms of conventions to challenge the reader. In our opening sequence we used eerie music for our horror opening this is a typical convention used in many horror films, such as ‘Halloween’ where eerie music is used to show the audience something is going to happen. Our music tempo and frequency increases to make the audience get tenser at times to relate to what’s happening in the scene, and make the audience more impatient to see what happens next in the clip. In our opening film sequence we also used red titles, which gives implications to the audience of blood and death, this is also conventional in horror movies likewise done in ‘Halloween’ and ‘red dragon’, where there was different colours used such as orange, yellow and red which are related to horror/thriller movies. We also made some of our clips very dark, dull and dramatic which is another commonly used convention used in horror films. To send out to the reader negative connotations of the movie after the opening sequence. Also to make them more frightened. We also in our sequence challenged the conventions. Instead of every typical horror movie we never followed the way they put their titles, most horror movies have their titles at the start of the opening sequence however me and my two partners decided we should challenge the conventions and place the title at the end of the scene to make it unusual to other horror movies and people can relate more to our film after watching the opening scene to our title name ‘‘Vengeance of the dead.’. I also feel we challenged the conventions because in most horror movies their are a majority of male dominance in the opening scenes, however in our opening scene a girl is shown more dominant over another girl rather than a man. We also challenged the conventions because the reader is left to think if the opening sequence is either horror/thriller because we have both aspects of each genre combined together. We also used the concept of graveyards and woods within our locations used in a horror film such as ‘cemetery man (1994)’, as graveyards have been a long-lasting tradition in horror movies so we choose to put this idea in our sequence, as our film is also to do with a dreadful death.