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

2. For our film opening, we
decided to do a horror. We
researched the different
conventions and connotations
of horror film openings so ours
would be accurate.

3. We asked our audience what they expected in the
opening of horrors to see what they would expect to see in
ours. The main things were the killer, the victim(s) and the
setting.

4. We decided to have our killer murdering someone in front of
the protagonist as someone dying is seen in multiple horror
openings like ‘Sinister’ and ‘The Ring’.
Sinister
The Ring

5. Usually in horror films, you see a setting that is rather empty
and deserted with only a few people there. We decided to
do this too. There are only 3 characters in the scene and the
setting is rather empty.
Only those about to die here.

6. For the credits we looked at 3 different types of openings of
different genres, overlapped, separate, and integrated. We
wanted to do an opening that was similar to the opening of
‘The Perks of Being a Wall Flower’. It starts off as a black
screen with the credits then changes to an overlapped
opening.
We also had our credits in the bottom corner to not cover
up the characters faces.