In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
For our coursework we had to create a two and a half minute opening sequence to a thriller movie. Im order to do this we had to research and watch sever opening sequences of thriller movies. These included; Silence of the lambs, seven and many more. All of these opening sequences included the following; An isolated location, a vulnerable character, music, lots of close ups, pans of the area top show that no one is around and finally the titles. All of this to help build tension and get the audience ready for the movie.
After research and discussing many ideas, we had our final plot synopsis. As we were filming a thriller, we had decided to use lots of low key lighting, in order to keep that eerie feel to our film. As well as this we hoped to have many close ups in order to keep as much as possible hidden from our audience. After filming things over and over, we had finally came up with our first draft. This draft has most of the conventions of an opening sequence, but not all of them. We had received feed back from our peers to help us create a much more intense opening sequence.
When we hand in our final product, we hope to have an opening sequence that makes the hearts of our audience beat, as they highly anticipate what is going to happen throughout the rest of the movie. To do this we will have used all of the conventions of an opening sequence.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In our opening sequence we have completely flipped things on its head, as we had chosen to have a male character being the victim of a female character. This goes against many stereo types, as typically a male is said to be the stronger of the two, and is usually the one attacking the female. We have decided to do this as we wanted to create something different, something that people would not expect to see or happen Whilst writing up our plans, we did worry about people hating on it, as it is something that is unexpected from the community, but at the same time we were happy about showing our audience something different.
We had decided that our characters should be aged 17-20, as that is the age group that goes to see thriller movies the most, thats what we found out in our research. This will also help our audience be able to relate to the characters throughout the movie.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
We believe "Entertainment film distributors" would distribute our movie as they normally work with indie films, which ours is. Our film would have a fairly low budget which is why instead of going for they typical big name distributor we have gone for something a lot more realistic however this distributor is still quite good as they have had failry successful films come through in the past. We hope that using them we would be able to get our names out in the industry and then be able to make films with a higher budget.
