Evaulation: In what ways does your media production use, develop or challenges forms and conentions of real media products?

The research i did for the main task was on different opening sequence first to give my group and i some ideas for example James Bond Goldfinger to show what type of thing we could do like with abstract. Also i looked at some opening sequences that where similar to what i was trying to create with my group. For this we looked at such films as se7en, six feet under, creep and Hannibal. From this i found that the conventions from our genre of horror where mainly the key items of blood, dark lighting to create mystery, making things less obvious to the audience, weapons such as knifes to create pain and high slow pitch music to help create tension. From my research i found that most used disorientation to enhance the feel of tenion of the horror to the audience which was done with fast cut editing and the off angle shots from the camera. I also found that from my research that the storyline was not given away by using any narrative but through using different images like in Se7en there is a close up shot of a book then another of hands. They are each different items that on their own are meaningless but when put together they give an impression to the audience. I learnt that from this research the combination of the items that my group and I use had to create the right impression. The research we used i felt helped in creating our title sequence as it gave our group a guideline and direction. Some aspects of the research did not help us this was because for our horror we were trying to scare the audience by psychotic behaviour rather than the used of blood and guts. Our "fright factor" came from the dysfunctions of the mind of our character which meant that in trying to create this we had to take small things from different research. i felt that the research also helped with which camera angles and editing worked within the genre. For example if we wanted to use a fade we could see our research and see if that would have fitted with our genre. In my work i think that i did conform to some aspects to the conventions and other i did not. This is due to in my work i gave the conventions of horror through the blood dripping and having a hangman’s noose (to give the connotation of death as in a horror people always die). However, in my group’s piece we wanted to have a side to show the sane side of the character which we did my getting him ready for work. This i feel is challenging the conventions of horror due to the connotations are not related to horror which is due to getting ready for work is what everyone does and is not out of the ordinary unlike a spooky situation of a horror.