Evaluation Activity 1

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
for this i have taken different screen shots and written about them.

1) This is the first shot to our opening 2 min. it is a long shot of a girl walking towards her hous. she is in the middle of the shot and the audience can see that there is nothing around her and she is alone, this is typically for the opening of a horror film as it makes the person seem vulnerable. she is wearing casual clothes, this makes the audience able to relate to her. we also have our titles saying 'lionsgate Pictures Presents' this is fading in and out on this shot. the font is white so it shows up well againts the darker background. the begging straight away suggests its a horror film as the colours are dark black and reds and the music played over the shots is scarey and puts the audience on edge.

2) there is then a shot from behind the girl and you can see her approaching her house, this is a long shot as you can see her and the house. there are no props used in this scene. we do not have alot of editing in this shot although there is text fading in and outover thetop of the shot. By fading in and out it builds more tension which is giood for the genre of our film. there is only one character introduced so far, the audience does not know anything about this person and this adds to the mystery of the opening 2 min.

3) there is a extreme close up of the girl opening the door, we increased the sound when the key goes in the lock and the door opens. this adds the tension being created.

4) there is a mid shot as the girl entres the house, this makes her the main focus. the only editing we used in this part of the clip was adding titles over the top.

5) There is then a long shot that shows someone looking in fromoutside. the camera is shakey so it shows the audience there is someone outside movingsround but the audsience is not able to see them, this builds furthertension and suspence. the music at this point becomes slightly more dramatic.

6) there is then an over the shoulder shot of the girl walking own the hallway. the camera follows her as she walks, we got the idea to do this from the film insidious. there is more text put over the shot, we used times new roman because it has an old style which suits the convention of a horror film.

7) this is another shot from outside, again we made the camera shake so that it appeared that there was a person outside. It was a long shot so you could see the girl standing behind the window closing the curtains. There are more tiotles over the top of this scene aswell.

8) there are close ups of making tea, each shot lasts around 3 seconds, this helps build suspense and tells the audience that something is going to happen but by having normal everyday activities taking place this puts the audience on the edge of their seats.

9) In this shot we have the girl to the side, this makes the backdoor in the middle of the shot and therefore the main focus allowing the audience to see the man standing there, the musis more dramatic to add to the tension.