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

Our Final Draft of our Film Project

Used Conventions?


Some of the conventions we used are the typical elements in a film opening, these are the essential things needed in an opening sequence.
Cuts- We used cuts and transitions in our opening sequence to swap between the different shots and have made them run smoothly. As shown in the example below the use of cuts is smooth and allows for a person to watch it and they will not take note of the change of shot as much as the change was not made obvious.

Low Key- We have used the typical Low Key sort of Lighting in our opening sequence as the environment our character is in is not that greatly lit. Low Key lighting is a perfect convention for Thriller and is used in many other thiller openings such as "The Sixth Sense". We achieved this convention as the filming location we were in had a single dim light bulb which was perfect to get this low key lighting on 'Jennifer'.

Developed Conventions?


We have developed our theme further in our work. Rather than just a simple "Thriller" film we had discussed what kind of Thriller films is it and what direction we wanted it to go, there for we had selected to do a Pyschological Thriller.

Challenged Conventions?


In our Media Opening we had challaenged the stereotypical idea of a "damsel-in-distress" which is featured in many films today. The way we challenged that stereotype is by having our character "Jennifer" release herself from the ropes and to be able to get herself up rather than have some strong masculine figure burst in to rescue her. We wanted to portay this young woman as being independant instead of very reliant on having someone save her.


Also in our opening we have created a sense of DISEQUILIBRIUM which is very different to some other films as the begin with Equilibrium.
Equilibrium in a film is where the Movie will begin and the film begins with a sense of normality about it in what is happening at the start, we have challenged that and begun with the Disequilibrium to throw off audiences that may expect this film to start off as normal.