Evaluation

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

We wanted our product to be sinister and creepy however also wanted to keep it original. With music, we took ideas from opening scenes from films such a Seven and Silence of the Lambs. The music from Seven was very dark and sharp and the music from Silence of the Lambs was more fast and classical, but like Seven still very dark. We wanted our music to go very well with our clips so we found what is called 'creepy music box' on youtube which fitted perfectly with our filming, and added greatly to the thrilling side to it.



When looking at Seven, what we liked most about their opening scene was the fast cuts. From looking at Seven we were able to discover that putting lots of different fast cuts into our opening it made it more scary and engrossed the audience a lot more. We had lots of shots of our killer in his house which we used and lots of shots of our innocent school girl walking home from school on quiet, empty roads. By putting these shots together and having them cut quickly from one to another it created a lot of tension. 

Along with out shots and music our mis-en-scene also did conform to the usual conventions of horror opening scenes. The killers house was very dark and his 'criminal' like clothes also added to this. Furthermore our 'victim' was very innocent looking, in a school uniform however walked down a dark street. This I feel is definatley typical of an opening scene to a thriller.

Although we used forms and conventions of real media in some aspects of our scene I feel we used very unique camera angles. In our opening we used snakes. We created camera angles where we would zoom in and out of the snakes in the background highlighting the phycopathic side to the man in his house.

I think it is really important that different film genres haver certain forms and conventions to follow as it is what makes them what they are. We used creepy music and fast shots as that is what is thrilling about thrillers. I think opening scenes are exremely important to engross your audience into your scene straight away - first impressions are very important, even in film. Of course, every film also needs a unique element to it also, which is what I think we done. We used and developped ideas from big thrillers, but also put in our own ideas also.

2. How does your product represent particular social groups?
Celebz Movie
by: ellapear