Question 1

The first contact sheet is of my groups film and the second is of the film seven. This is the film we go most of our idears from as you can see they look mostly the same.

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

My media product was based on the thriller film se7en. As a group we watched seven a few times and we thought it would be intresting and effective to make our opeing sequence look like the opening sequence of seven. This idear gave all four of us in the group some good idears on what we wanted to have in the 2minutes we had to put togehter. So to show you our good effort and what inspired us to put our opening sequence together like this, I have put together 9 screen shots from my groups opeing sequence (seized) and for the opening sequence of seven.

You can see from the contact sheet that most of the shots are the same because they are all mostly extream close up shots. You can see we also use some of the same props. You can see the killers tools in some shots. Also from these few shots even though they are pictures they give a scary and creapy mood to the opeing sequence. Also from most of the shots you can also see the type of location that the killer has set his self in. Its dark, so he is hidden and unseen. To the viewer and even the victim.

So from the shots I have grabed, you can see our film is a typical thriller opening sequence. From the design of what is in the frame of each shot, all of these different factors show the way we made our opening sequence have all the conventions it should to make it real and intresting to watch.

This made our opeing sequence very effective because, The audience we have targeted that are over 18's. They would have mostly likely seen the film seven. This will stright away click in there head so they will understand what we have done and what we want the audience to think when watching our opening sequence. From the 9 shots of each opeing sequence I have chosen, you can see how we was inspired by the film seven.

There are some clips that are the same as seven because, in the shot you can see that we showed the killers hands so that the audience would question who they are and what they look like.

Story and how the opening sets it up: From 3 of the screen shots from seven compared to 3 shots of my groups thriller you can see that we both used pictures of the victim so the audience can see who the killers intends to catch and even kill the victim. Also in these shots you can see the location of where the killers is and where he is setting out his plans for the victim. This made the opeing sequence effective because it makes the mood of the film more intense and creepy. Also we wanted the audience to feel as if they are being watched too by the killer, as they watch the first few minutes of our film.

Costumes and props: We wanted to made sure that you could see the props we used for example in one of the shots you can see we used tweezers to pick out the eyes of Donna, and in the shot of seven you can see they also wanted the viewer to see the killer using a pair of tweezers to place small bits of evidence that he has collected together. This is effective because each conventions are the props to a creepy thriller film, these types of props also give means. For example from these props you can tell the character of the person collecting all of this information has spent a very long time doing this and they have put a lot of effort into making sure it is rite and exact to there plans and what is intended to happen to the victim.

Camer work and editing: We also wanted to show that the killer really prepared what he has put together, by showing this in the same way as seven did from the killer having a lot of writing on the vitims. This is in one shot of seven but in a few shots of seized. This also shows how similar my group's opeing sequence is to the opening sequence of seven! We made sure we done very quick cuts so that the audience was keept intrested, watching and that it also was as effective as seven is. The editing and camera work was a very big part to making the opening sequence to a high standard of film work but to also keep the sequence making sence to the audience.

title front and style: This is simalur to seven because the font is bold and it starts with the same letter. But also because, it is white writting on a black background. So even thought seven is small and seized is big they both stand out to the viewer. The style of each set of writting is cracked and creepy so it helps to set the mood on the thriller.

How the characters are introduced: they are introduced in the same way as most good thrillers introduce there most powerful character in the opeing sequence, this is hidden and so the audience puts together a picture in their head of what the character looks like. So as the film goes on the character's are show more and more so the audience is still putting peices together of the character and there personality. In my groups film you see Donna (the victim) in pictures, in drawing and then in the flesh. So she is know to the audience fisrt but this is because she is not the main character, the killer is. So we have introduces his smaller, but stronger features such as his hands a fingers so we start to think what does he look like? This is to kkep the audience watching and wanting to see more. So this is why we was inspired to used this technique, in our opeing sequence.

Genre and how the opeing suggests this: This is done mostly by the music, because it is perfect for a thriller and that you feel the hairs on your neck stand up as it starts. This is how we gave the genre away. We also done thid thought the lighting, that is dark and in the shadows. This is also done becuase of the quick close up shots of the character and his tools. These convertion are how you can tell it is a thriller.

Setting/location: There is only two different ones of these. The first is of where the killers is in the opeing and the second is at the end of the victim as she walks home. These are all show to the audience in a quick shot that is close up. This is so not much is shown to the audience but it has a lot of meaning to the mood on the thriller.