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

In our thriller, we used a fade in fade out use of title sequence. Rather than stopping the sequence to add a credit, we decided to do it inside of the sequence, therefore people can keep watching the action, because that is what they are most interested, however, they can also appreciate the makers of it whilst doing so. Throughout the opening sequence, the credits of the film were placed at the edge of the screen. We placed it there so that no focus was taken from the action happening in the film:


The photo on the right shows the vast use of blood, and the heart with the poison. This would hopefully disgust the audience, however, following through with the order of the credits, we still put one in this shot, however, we cleverly put it to the side therefore all the focus could still be on the gore.
This is very similar to other films of this genre. Because what is going on, on the screen is the most important, therefore we keep most of hte focus on the action by placing the credits at the side of the screen, therefore it is still seen but not overwhelming. We decided to use two seperate layers, therefore the name of the person could be a bigger font, and the job title would be smaller, this is similar to "Halloween," which is a similar genre. Therefore it upholds conventions of the film genre:

The editing of the film is very fast pace, this is too built tension and make it more dramatic. However, we decided to make the credits fade in and fade out, therefore it is much smoother and slower. This is challenging audiences expectations because normally if the film is fast paced, the credits will reflect, but we decided to not do this, for a good reason.This contrast was purposely done to juxtapose real life with the action going on in the film. The actor is clearly a disturbed man who seeks to hurt other by poisoning the meat, therefore the quick edit reflects his character: short and angry. This juxtaposed with the slow, smooth credits shows the normality of the world, and how he is troubled. We decided to show the title at the end of the sequence, this creates a good start to the rest of the film. At the end of the sequence, the man walks out of the shot, then there is a black out, while the music stops. This creates tension for the audience because they will be wanting to know what happens next. Then suddenly the title appears in the centre of the screen, in a big font. This immediately dramatises this because the font size is much bigger than the other credits, showing its importance.

When it appears, there is a sound effect of a boom at the same time, this shocks the audience, and makes them eager and excited to see the rest of the film because of the dramatic ending of the opening sequence. This is a great aim that we had for our opening sequence, that it would appear to lead onto a good exhilirating film.