Evaluation Introduction/Question 1

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

The way in which our opening sequence uses, challenges and even develops forms and conventions of real media make it the gothic product in which we were trying to create for the audience.

Our demonic opening sequence uses a vast amount of gothic and horror conventions, for example the structure is very snappy, there are no blank screens, action and/or dialogue are continuous throughout to keep a high intensity for the audience. The style in which we used to present our credits and also the style in which we filmed was conventional, this is because we based our film on a gothic genre. Even though the genre of gothic can be seen as cliché the way in which we filmed the genre and the selected setting make the opening sequence conventional but also makes it mysterious and eerie for the audience. Furthermore the sound effect and music we used throughout the film are substantially gothic and used purely to create a sense of terror for the audience. The editing and special effects that we used were slightly of gothic conventions, we used fast cuts to increase intensity and also the darkness and eeriness.

The camera work can be seen as both conventional and also un-conventional, the handled camera shots make the audience build fear but at the same time the dialogue shots are un-conventional for the gothic genre, we have done this to challenge the genre and show the audience an unfolding incident.

However our introduction of characters is far from gothic conventions, it is a sudden cut into dialogue of the two characters in which find themselves in great fear further on in the sequence.