Evaluation Activity 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products ? (i.e.of film opening)

This is our screen title. As you can see we have gone for the black backround with the same colour fiont inside the red. The style of red builds the impression of blood showing that its a horror film. However both colours help to build an impression of darkness and fear.

We have used this as the productuiomn company opening titles as they use the same dark colours to build fear, darkness and suspense

This is when you see the two main characters introduced ( amelia and jasmine) you see them just as there walking out the door and you can clearly see that amelias character is visibly upset. This builds the instant impression of the two characters that amelia is troubled and that jasmine is caring friend on hand to help. You can also see in the bottom left of the picture that the credits are rolling through on the side in a white clear font so it is clearly visible for the audience.

This establishing shot shows that the setting is in a street showing that they feel they are safe as many people are around them although little do they know that they are actually alone. The use of the establishing shot is to show the audience the main location for the film so the audience feels in the film.

This shows the costumes and props we have used for the opening 2 mins. As you can see the villain in the background as in a black costume to strike fear and suspense into the audience. the villain is also holding a baseball bat showing the intimidation that this charactor portrays. The girls are just in normal clothes as they would have just been walking homeon a regular day until this happened.




As our film had no budget whatsoever we didnt have any special effects but this doesnt mean that the film lacks anything as it gives it a more realistic feel which is taken up in many horror films such as blair witch project. They do this to draw you into the filmwheras if you have big special effects you can sometimes be draawn away from reality.