Evaluation Task 1:

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

-      Our thriller follows some conventional rules of film that have been used for decades. The involvement of the colour red is specifically import because it represents blood, passion, danger and fire - all of which feature in our Opening Sequence and would consequently be involved with the rest of the feature film. It is unusual for a movie to not sell itself completely in the opening title - the opening title says everything to the audience, it sets up the mood and atmosphere for the entire film. Using this knowledge we knew, like all movies, we had to sell the movie, set up the script and entice the audience simultaneously on camera. However, unlike most thriller opening sequences we do more than tell a story, we visually please the audience too with the many match cuts involved, this does not lose the audience in the lull of titles but captures their attention and disorientates them, this is quite unlike more thrillers. Nevertheless, there are some opening thriller sequences that really subvert conventional film sequences and capture the audience in the first breath which is exactly what we tried to acheieve. For example: Se7en and Catch Me If You Can...