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

1.) Title of film over clip

This is a screen grab from the film Memento, this shows the convention of the title of the film over a clip in the opening sequence. The shot used is also an extreme close up of his hand holding the photo.

We then incorporate this convention into our own work and make sure we had the title of the film over an extreme close-up shot.








2.) Close-up of face

The screen grab we took of Butterfly effect is of a close-up of the main characters face, showing he is stressed and frightened. It is also the first character you see in the opening sequence giving the audience an idea who the main character is.

Yet again we used this in our work to make sure we made our opening sequence seem like a real film opening. The close-up of our main character is also the first character that you see. This creates tension knowing that the main character is in distress and is in a difficult situation.






3.) Blood

This is a screen grab from the film Memento, showing the convention of blood and how it is key in thriller films. It not only shows death but it can show the blood from where someone has been beaten up.

This is our interpretation of blood in our film opening sequence. We used a bit of blood underneath his nose to link up the flash back of him being punched around the face, therefore his nose started to bleed because of the punch.







4.) Shows a death

This screen grab of the film Seven, which shows a person dead on the floor, yet it only just a clip of it. The clip gives the audience brief information that someone has been killed, resulting in an investigation with police.

We then used the convention of death in our opening sequence, we also made sure it was just a clip to make sure the audience could assume that someone has died. We also done it has a flash back to show that the death happened before the main character got tied up.






5.) Weapon

In Memento one of the characters also has a weapon. Then weapon he has was a gun and he uses it on the character that is the person that dies, and from where it is in reverse we no that that man is dead before he gets killed. Altogether it shows that in thrillers some sort of weapon is used.

In our opening sequence we had one of the characters have a baseball bat, which is classed as a weapon, and then uses it on the other character.








6.) Unknown Location

In this screen of Gothika show two women talking, but you are unable to see the background so the audience are uninformed about where about's the characters are.

We incorporated this into our opening sequence and put on of our main characters, who is then joined by another character, in a room with just dim lightening on his face so that the audience do not no where about's the scene is set.







7.) Dark lighting

This is a  screen gab from the film Gothika, which shows dark lighting. The dark lighting creates an eery atmosphere also adding tension making the audience wonder what will happen.

We then used this in our opening sequence and used a dim spot light on our main character, this makes the audience uneasy and also wondering what will happen.










8.) White or baby blue colour text

In Butterfly Effect they also used white text, this shows that we have stuck to the conventions of thriller films because a real thriller product used it.

We used white text through out our opening sequence, and shown in the screen grab of our opening sequence is some of the white we used.









9.) Creepy Music
In the opening sequence of Silence Of The Lambs creepy music is played, creating tension and adds to the atmosphere of what the film will be like. We then also used creepy music, which we made ourselves, in our opening sequence making sure that we stuck to the convention of having creepy music.