In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The aim of are sequence was to build suspense and tension towards the audience. The audience doesn't know why the main character is running or who his running from, the ending finishes with a cliff hanger of a shadow of the main character in the canal with another shadow behind him with there hand is looking as if their going to grab our main character, however we do not know what is going to happen. It was very effective for us to do this and this is a commonly used convention in an opening of thriller films to keep the viewer attached on what they are watching.
We had used long shots throughout the whole sequence this was to show or produce the idea that the main character was being watched/followed. However all our shots were done from different angles and distances this was to make the sequence flow well, and still provide tension instead of using the same shots over again because we knew that if we repeated the shots again and again eventually the sequence would have got boring. We knew we had to keep all our shots as a variety so nobody would lose interest however we did make a few risky choices on making the running sequence take up most of our 2mins opening time, we knew that the viewer may lose interest due to the fact all he was doing was running but we new it could also build tension and questions in their mind, all the best thriller films makes the viewer ask them self questions in our case the questions that could come to the viewer would be on the lines of asking themselves, where is he going? why is he running? who is he running from? Therefore in our case we relied on the audiences mind and imagination.
Our titles were clear like any other media product we had recently looked at, we knew they had to be visible and stand out to the audience. They was white However had a red glow around it. The titles were not still on the screen either we made them look as if they were flickering to make the titles effected and give it that creepy feeling. With the sound and edits being tied in with the titles it overall made it look very effective and all worked well.
In Editing we used short clips however they were snappy and quick cuts. Our main use of editing was slow-mo we used this to show when out titles were going to appear however we also used the sound of 'a bell' we did this to make the titles visible to the viewer, lots of real media products use this kind of techniques to make there titles clear and stand out, however we didn't come across any that had used slow-mo in the way we had thought off their for we just gave it ago and i think it worked rather well.
The sound fitted our sequence perfect. It was fast paced but at the right moments slowed down this showed tension within the character itself and what was happening around him. Our suspense built up towards the end where the fast pace dies out and it becomes more silent when the character starts talking and becomes more panicky. As i spoke about somewhere above was the sound effect of the 'bell' when the titles come up that was effective as-well as the other little sounds in the background such as the water, splashing from the phone being thrown into the canal and all the other little noises we added into it.
We had used long shots throughout the whole sequence this was to show or produce the idea that the main character was being watched/followed. However all our shots were done from different angles and distances this was to make the sequence flow well, and still provide tension instead of using the same shots over again because we knew that if we repeated the shots again and again eventually the sequence would have got boring. We knew we had to keep all our shots as a variety so nobody would lose interest however we did make a few risky choices on making the running sequence take up most of our 2mins opening time, we knew that the viewer may lose interest due to the fact all he was doing was running but we new it could also build tension and questions in their mind, all the best thriller films makes the viewer ask them self questions in our case the questions that could come to the viewer would be on the lines of asking themselves, where is he going? why is he running? who is he running from? Therefore in our case we relied on the audiences mind and imagination.
Our titles were clear like any other media product we had recently looked at, we knew they had to be visible and stand out to the audience. They was white However had a red glow around it. The titles were not still on the screen either we made them look as if they were flickering to make the titles effected and give it that creepy feeling. With the sound and edits being tied in with the titles it overall made it look very effective and all worked well.
In Editing we used short clips however they were snappy and quick cuts. Our main use of editing was slow-mo we used this to show when out titles were going to appear however we also used the sound of 'a bell' we did this to make the titles visible to the viewer, lots of real media products use this kind of techniques to make there titles clear and stand out, however we didn't come across any that had used slow-mo in the way we had thought off their for we just gave it ago and i think it worked rather well.
The sound fitted our sequence perfect. It was fast paced but at the right moments slowed down this showed tension within the character itself and what was happening around him. Our suspense built up towards the end where the fast pace dies out and it becomes more silent when the character starts talking and becomes more panicky. As i spoke about somewhere above was the sound effect of the 'bell' when the titles come up that was effective as-well as the other little sounds in the background such as the water, splashing from the phone being thrown into the canal and all the other little noises we added into it.
