Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

As a group, we have created a Psychological thriller film opening. Our opening supports the conventions of a stylised thriller opening sequence. Our opening was inspired by the movie 'Seven'. In the opening of a thriller, we expect to see the following :

• The Protagonist/Normal Person
• Introduction to characters 
• Credits/Titles
• Shots of scenery/Props

As a group we have looked at the movie opening of 'Seven' to help us with our film. From 'Seven' we took certain aspects like the book turning, the title sequence and shots of the protagonists hand to add suspense. Also, we used the cutting paper scenes.

In a thriller genre film, we expect to see things like high and low angles, to differentiate the difference between the antagonist and protagonist, jump cuts, close ups of the antagonist and protagonist and build ups in tension. Our sub genre was Psychological. Because of this we decided to include things that would make our opening seem more on the psychological side. For example, we included shots of out antagonist tapping his foot to make it seem like he has a mental problem. This tapping is repeated in the opening. 

In a film opening, the titles we should expect to see would usually be in this order:

• (Name of the Distribution Studio)
• (Name of the Production Company)
• (Producer's Name) Production or/and (director only) A Film By (Director's Name)
• Starring - Principal actors.
• (Film's Title)
• Featuring- Featured actors.
• Casting
• Music or Music Composed By or Original Score By
• Production Design
• Editor
• Director Of Photography
• Producer - Often, though, the name of the producer will be the next-to-last opening credit, just before the director's name is shown.
• Story
• Writer
• Director

Our opening supports this order.