Q1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products

The function of a film opening sequence is to address to the audience who is involved in the production of the film; including titles of actors, directors, sound editors and producers etc. More over the title sequence should hint to the audience what genre the film will be, plot clues to the rest of the film but to also help recognise the setting and characters in the film.

an example of the title credits displaying the director. A close up shot iconic of thriller/horrors

This shot exemplifies this idea of acknowledging the genre early on. We understand that the film will have sinister connotations through the dark lighting and silhouette.

 The title of the film chosen in big bold text. This helps to let the audience know the importance of the title and how Mia is the main character.

The general order of titles begins with production and distribution idents, followed by names of the main actors, then the title of the film, and following that the rest of the actors, casting, sound, costume, and at the end the producer, the writer and the director

The reason it is in this order is that showing the idents first help give the audience familiarity in the type of film they will watch.

An example of an inspiration for our title sequence is the film ‘fear’

Several shots in ‘fear’ included close up's and match cuts, in which we wanted to embed this type filming into our own work, where we had match cuts of actions by Mia i.e. pressing the button at the crossing, using her phone and the last scene with the close up of the stalker.

I also admired the disturbing nature we get from the stalker which we hoped we conveyed in our sequence.

Here we can see a medium/closeup shot showing us the relationship between the two characters.

 

We included scenes of flashbacks to the protagonist's boyfriend confronting the stalker which were short in length and loud in volume so to shock the audience and attempt to get them to question the possible relation between the boyfriend and the stalker. In this instance we used this idea of conflict between two characters just like this snapshot suggests. Also with a sense of threat that both scenes reveal.

Another film that inspired our group was "The Breakfast Club. The lighting in this film helped add a thin dark tone to show the unexpectedness of the social group of friends, which we tried to add into our own film, where we had dark shots in a classroom that both Mia and the stalker were in. This film gave us the idea to have a young cast and have the setting of the plot to be in a college, similar to theirs.

In some ways we have challenged the codes and conventions of our genre by filming youths rather than younger/older adults. We did this to shock the audience but to also make it relatable