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

From the research task I gained an idea of what was conventional of an opening sequence for a thriller. The final opening sequence that we created as a group, I believe matched some on the conventions that I had seen in existing opening sequences. For example all the titles I have seen used contrasting colours such as red and black, or yellow and black. These colours stood out, making it easy for the audience to read the titles. The titles were also in a large bold font which also made it easy for the audience to read. Therefore, picking up on this when Chloe was creating the titles for our opening sequence, she made sure she followed this convention and she used a large, bold font. The text was white on a black background to ensure it stood out. As shown below.

From the research task I also picked up on that the majority of titles move up the hierarchic when naming people, for example starting with hair and makeup, then finishing with the Director. Because of this, as a group we decided that our opening sequence should also follow this convention. I also saw that most of the existing opening sequences started with the name of the production company then saying presents.... then the title of the film. We followed this convention and put 'LaNiCh productions present..' Then the title 'Snatched' shatters onto the screen. 

 

 

The titles we created using after effect, follow the convention in the way that they are contrasting colours. However the way they entered and exit the shot develops the convention. The titles also develop the convention as the majority of the titles appear at the end of the sequence. However in existing thriller films the titles appear throught the whole opening sequence. Like panic room for example.

 

 

The existing opening sequence I watched as part of the research task, all had very different story lines. However the one thing that linked them together was the fact that music to compliment what was happening on screen was playing. This is another convention that we used within our opening sequence. Because our story line is one that is meant to be gripping, and build tension. We decided upon using an eeiry type of background music as this would be the best type of music to use to build tension and suspense for the audience. The music we used for our final opening sequence is also similar to that of the music used within the opening sequence for Panic Room, in the way that the music is eeiry and it builds tension for thr audience. This shows that we followed the convention for this part of the opening sequence.

 

A main convention of a Thriller film, is having low key lighting. Within our opening sequence we used all natural lighting. However, when filming our opening sequence we ensured that it was around the time where it is beginning to go dark, by doing this it made our sequence look more mysterious and create tension as it is typical within films that action occurs when it is dark or beginning to get dark.