Evaluation Question 1.

Evaluation Question 1.

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

Almost every film starts with some form of title sequence and/or ident. So having this within our film wasn't anything special. These days, tracking and pan shots are the most commonly used shots within the introduction of films, so I thought it would be a good idea if we created our introduction using these shots. However, I didn't want it to be exactly the same as every other film out there; Therefor I analysed a few different film introductions in order to see the more commonly used aspects. I found that most of the fonts that was used were bold/styled and in colour. Also the text was almost always positioned in the middle of the screen. So I decided to go for a more simplistic approach and have clear white text, that changes positions (corner or corner) around the screen.

 

The most typical shot used within thrillers has to be close-ups, also commonly used are long-shots. So I thought it would be a good idea if I combined the two shots taking it from a long-shot into a close-up shot. This technique has been used in a few films however it isn't exactly an overused shot and it helped to add suspense to the film.

Unlike most films these days, we decided not to have it in full colour, but instead to have it in black and white. This was inspired by the film 'Phycho'  as I feel it gives the film more of a mysterious feel to it. I also didn't want our film to be the same as everyone elses so this was my own little touch in order to try and help it stand out from the rest.