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

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

My media product used, developed and challenged the forms and conventions of real media products in many different ways. By looking at previous opening title sequences of real horror and thriller films (paranormal activity and witchboard) i began to collect ideas and shots which i thought would be good to use within my own title sequence. I got the idea of how i wanted my finished product should look like, also how it should make the viewer feel by the lighting and the music. The atmosphere should create a suspense to keep the audience on the edge of their seats so they dont get bored or feel they cant follow what is going on. This was made by the use of the music, it was quite eerie and would sometimes leave an eerie silence in order to spook the audience. The music also fitted in with with the camera shots i had used.

When looking at the other opening title sequences one of the main thing is the credits, telling you who is in the film and who directed and edited it. One of the thing that my group didn't want to do was to just insert credits straight from imovie as they are rather plain and alot of other people in our class was using them so we wanted something original. So the idea of using a book as a diary was created, because of the era the ghost child is from we had to make a diary look old. To do this we stained the pages with coffee and tea to give it that aged look. Annie then wrote the credits in the book in neat old style writing, we included who was staring in the film and who edited and directed. We also have a diary entry written in the diary which is read out by Annie. This is how our film will start, with the book opening on its own.