Evaluation.

Question One

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

When we planned our product, we decided as a group that we would use and develop the conventions of media products within the same genre as opposed to challenging these conventions.

We set about creating our title sequence with our main aim to create suspense and tension, we felt the best way to do this was using our soundtrack to establish a serious tone as apposed to a lighthearted one, one you might typically find in a romantic comedy.

We understand that conventionally, the title sequence for any film establishes a tone, feeling and pace, of which is applied throughout the rest of the movie. (i.e. What Lies Beneath uses the calamity of the water to lull the viewer in to a false sense of security before allowing the female in the bath to pop up and shock the audience. This sets a tone and formula in which the rest of the movie follows). We feel our title sequence sets a pace and tone with our soundtrack and slow, dreamlike pace.

Usually, the title sequence introduces a character to the audience, though admittedly, many of the more effective thrillers do not use a character but establish a setting or use strange objects i.e. dolls to set a tone. We introduced our female lead and also a strange male character and gives the viewer a rough idea of what the movie is going to be about.

Another classic convention of a thriller is Leaving the audience inquisitive and eager to watch on. This element was key to include as we thought of our product as the hook which needed a bite from our viewers so we could reel them in. Our product had the audience thinking: 'Who is this Girl?', 'Who is she telling her dreams to?', 'What awaits her at home?'.