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

In our Thriller’s opening sequence we stick to the conventions of a Horror Thriller by including high ambient sound, a ripping suspenseful score and a wide range of camera angles to display the emotion of fear and the pure isolation we were trying to create. Our plot was very typical of thriller horror movies: a person is being stalked by a dangerous set of characters. We did however use more handheld/steady cam shots than are usually seen in the genre. We did to give certain shots an edgy and out of control feel, an example being our POV shot to put the audience in the main protagonist’s shoes. We knew the audio side to our film – one of the most important aspects to films in our genre – was very crucial to the establishment of the films genre. We Made sure that it produced and edited to perfection by not only creating a gripping score but ensuring the time signature of the track fitted the flow of shots perfectly; making the two blend together smoothly.
Due to this only being an opening title sequence we wanted to split the project into the parts: the opening establishing shots to the fictional film and the opening credits. We achieved this by having several shooting dates for the raw footage. We shot the establishing side to our project in one day to ensure that the shots produced looked to take place immediately after each other. The credits were then shot in the space of three days to make the different locations we filmed look as if they were going to be included in the feature. Like most opening sequences nowadays, we incorporated a unique font into the credits and gave the scenes straight cut transition to follow other horror thriller openings such as Se7en.