Evaluation 1

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


The 9 frame sequence below represents the conventions intended in the opening of my thriller.

                                              Frame #1

[Story and how the opening sets it up]

This is my first frame, my thriller opening begins with a mid-shot, slanted birds-eye view of the protagonist of our thriller opening. The character is revealed at the beginning allowing the audience to sympathize for the character; the high angle shot enables us to chose what we want the audience to see, which in this shot is only the character and the state she is in. We begin with this shot to create enigma, and aim to leave the audience with questions. The location is not yet revealed, consequently the next shot advances to a mid-close up shot, bringing to light the character's costume unfolding the character's personality and possible social group backgrounds. The different shots on the same position is especially to provide the audience with a better understanding. The lighting is focused on only our main character's profile, mainly her face to emphasize that she is the victim.

Frame #2
[Camera work and editing]

The second frame in my sequence is a shot from within the first 30 seconds of my opening thriller, it shows the main character from a different angle, a mid-shot low angle, this is suitable as the character is laying on the floor. This shot shows the character slowly waking up, she slowly opens and closes her fists tensing her muslces, then a shot-revers-shot, which shows her facial expressions as she struggles through the illusions in her head. She is trying to wake up anddoest not know where she is.

Frame #3

[Setting/location]

This is a point of view shot, as the main character gains consciousness she slowly ascends from the ground, trying to make sense of her surrounding we present this to the audience in the form of a point of view shot as the audience will see exactly what the character is seeing and witnessing. The location is a dark room, that does not give away much to the audience, it looks a little like a store room as it contains random objects in the room.

Frame #4

[Genre and how the opening suggests it]

This shot shows our main character from a better perspective, while still not properly revealing her appearance completely.. The audience can see the character supporting her head with both hands suggesting she is going through. It also highlights the genre of the film which i believe is psychological thriller, also represents the condition she suffers from, amnesia. As she clutches her head with her hands it shows the moment she is trying to make sense of the images in her head, seconds later we understand that it is actually the flashback that causes the disturbance.

Frame #5

[The title of the film]

The fifth frame in my frame sequence presents the title of my thriller film, i used Live type to create this title, the effect allows the text to shudder and vibrate while the title bounces forward, this creates the sudden suspence that my thriller consists of. The font of my film title establishes a thrilling atmosphere also demonstrating the strong, theme of the film.

Frame #6

[How the suspense is created]

This is frame is the point in time where the protagonist discovers that there are random pictures hang on the notice board, these pictures are random to her because of her condition, she has amnesia so she does not remember why pictures of people she doesn't know up there, she looks at each picture trying to make sense of where she is, and what is going on.

Frame #7

[Special Effects]

This frame entirely depicts the horrible flashback that the main character experienced, the blurred and vibrants colours, suggest that her memory of the inscident is very uncertain, but remembers something bad having happened to her, which leaves her scarred. The frame above shows a young hooded boy attacking her while cornering her, unusally in daylight, but however in a deserted area.

Frame #8
[How characters are introduced]

This frame, the 8th one of my sequence shows a victim that is also unconcious on the floor; i chose this frame because it's dim-lighed emphasizing the mystery of the girl lying on the floor, and creates engima. It brings up question of who the girls is, why she is lying there in the same room as our protagonist, and what happened to her? This is the shot consequetive to a continuity shot before, which shows our protagonist turning her face over, to identify and make sense of the pictures on the wall.

Frame #9
[Costumes and props]

This scene shows the lighting used, not revealing too much and only showing half of the victim on the floor and barely revealing the protagonist standing by the wall of pictures, yet again making sense of the girl lying on the floor, and why her picture is on the board, the audience do not know who the girl is. the difference in their clothing emphasizes the difference between their personality and their social groups, suggesting that they may have nothign in common, whcih brings the question why are they both here? the green and red wall fails to reveal much about the location.