Individual Evaluation 1

Our Main Task for media was to Create a Opening To a Film which is no longer than 2 minutes. We have successfully completed our film opening which is fit for purpose and is watchable. It fits perfectly to the genre  which we set out to have which was Thriller/Horror. we have also successfully made sure that it is suited for our target audience. It was all a very long process be as we all worked together, we was able to complete it on time. It was a hard process with lots of ups and downs but we managed to improve our skills in media and create a worth while piece of film.

                              This is Our opening Sequence to our Film "Prohibited" 

The conventions that we were planning to use for our film opening were:

• To make our Film as dark and Creepy as possible
• To have Bright and Bold Font for the Opening Title
• Use as many different camera angles as we could.

I personally say that we have challenged the forms and conventions of real media                         products as our film opening is unique and has many unanswered questions evolved within it which a lot of other film opening do not have. we have used some other conventions from our Deconstructions "Zombieland" and "Hostage" because we wanted to film real life action with the credits overlaying it. we wanted to do it like Hostage, as we wanted the audience to feel involved in the film so they knew what was going on and the events that could follow. 

We used a Bold Red Title, like the one from Zombieland. we wanted to make the title jump out at our audiences and to make sure that it stuck in their minds throughout the film. We used Blood RED so that the audience identified that as Blood, and they would instantly know the film may contain a lot of gore. This 100% is relevant to the type of film we set out to make.

I think that we used a wide variety of shots and camera angles as we wanted to do this from the beginning. Our film opening is good because of this reason and inst boring by using the same camera angle all the way through it. We did not use the conventions of "The Mummy" as there was drawn elements which we couldn't fit into our film as it wasn't relevent to the story, therefor we did not achieve this type of form. The mummy's scene also quickly merged into one another which we did not do as our piece was made up of live action shot, whereas the Mummy is a lot of drawings and different effects which we didn't want to have as it wasn't relevant to the effect that we wanted to achieve.         

I think that we deffinatly achieved all of the Conventions which we set out to do in the beginning throughout our film opening. We created the Creepy and scary effect by placing an innocent girl and a cute dog in a dark and abandoned area. this instantly caused our audience some stress as they knew that things were not good. By adding a Crazed Fresh eating lunatic  to the equation, we created fear in the minds our our audience and the sympathy emotion for the girl and her dog. We also achieved our third convention as we made sure to add lots of different camera angles including: Close ups, match on Action, mid shots and panning shots. we used the 180 degree rule and wide shots with the Hand held camera to create more of a scary atmosphere and to make sure we didn't break one of Films key rules.