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In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of

real media products.

By Jade Craig

+Opening Sequence

My opening sequence was intended and created to use conventions from current and previous media in order to make a recognizable image that would involve and potentially entertain and scare my intended audience. For example, from doing research of similar opening sequences, I noticed that within all the opening sequences there was some sort of theme being illustrated.

+Insidious vs. My Opening Sequence

Insidious used a stronger text and colour to give a horror feel to the title, whereas mine was more simple.

However I did you the flickering idea that they used on the text, and that really impacted how my title came across.

Furthermore I tried to also use images/videos to set the scene and give the audience an idea about what is going on, as the opening sequence did with the different pictures.

+Camera Work

When doing research and looking at three opening sequences, the use of camera work is very important. The audience should be able to easily understand what the film is trying to say. With this shot in particular I wanted the audience to see a conversation between these two characters

+Continued.

This is an establishing shot, which just sets the main location of the film, and I used this in the opening sequence for the audience to identify one of the key scenes.

An establishing shot used in Insidious to set the scene.

+Sound

The music used for various horror opening sequences was usually a piercing sort of screaming sound. With the main instrument being a Piano. However for my opening sequence the music used a lot of voice and laughter, but when it was slowed down it gave the opening sequence a dark feel, and improved how the titling looked. This was one of the way I challenged a generic form and convention of horror film opening sequences.

+The setting

The main setting of my horror film was a forest, and this was shown in the montage at the beginning and end of the opening title. The reason I used this setting was because I found it isolating, and also it is usually used in horror films. However I also set the opening sequence mainly at a café in broad daylight which I felt as if ruined the titling which portrayed horror whereas the café scene looked rather casual.