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

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

My media product used, developed and challenged the forms and conventions of a real media product by firstly looking at a opening title sequence producers and their work; such a Kyle Cooper, who had produced the openings to 'Se7en' and 'Seven Pounds' and also a huge range of many other different films and the genres, varying from 'Detective' to 'Chick Flick'. Whilst going through the Research process we had decided to aim towards 'Horror' and 'Thriller'. Once this choice was made we came up with out 'Bigger Picture' (the story line throughout the film that is in the process of being made) and thought of ideas of what our product should look like.

The title of film:
We had decided to call our film 'child's play' because the story line is about three people summoning a child sprit in a fit of lashing out that had died there with her parents, the 'child' starts to killing them one by one, however not straight away, she plays games with them, graduary getting to the point of murder, however one does manage to survive which leads to an sequal.
The title is displayed within the first fame; written on the cover of a book in red paint, the 'red paint' conotes blood and danger however the group had decided to make intertextual reference to another film e.g '6th Sence' by using a particular colour throughout the whole film to conote a particular emotion or something in particular, this will also add to the suspence the audience is held in, while , hopfully, they are wondering what is happening with the oujia board and wants to keep watching, this suspense is also supported by the music, the atmosphere should have a suspense to keep the audience on the edge of their chairs.

Settings and locations used:
One reason why we have made our setting dark and bare with only candles as the lighting is to help create the atmosphere and tension. The setting is suppose to be set in a Victorian house, quite old fashioned, however we had difficulties making the setting quite Victorian, so we had decided to make the setting bare except for the table and the contents upon it (oujia board, candles, and insent burner) this is very popular in horror/thriller films as it make the audience feel tense and in this dark empty space as well, once this setting is shown on the opening title sequence, instantly the genre is set in place with the audience and atmosphere. I had came up with the idea of using a black room, my group had agreed and i went to ask if it was possible to use my drama teachers room and he said yes.

Constumes and props used:
In ours fames, there are only three people present (a male and two femals), and their costums arn't exceedingly great, as a result of our idea had been changed from them being paraphycologists to school children, their costums were casual looking as if they have been to school then straight to this 'haunted' house. In many film of a verity of genre's 'casual' clothing is used particulary however certain clothing such as 'suits' is also used to inform the audience their working class, adding to this, costumes could provide the audience with clues of the characters and their personality by making assumptions or comparing them to 'real life'.

Title font and style used:
when the group was looking at the other opening title sequences, one main thing is the credits, that tells you who is in the film and who directed/edited etc. One of the thing that our group didn't want to do was to just insert credits straight from imovie, so the idea of using a book as a diary was created. Because of the era the ghost is from we had to make a diary look old, so we stained the pages with coffee and tea to give it that aged look and feel. then i wrote the credits in the book in neat cursive writing, we included who was staring in the film and who edited and directed. This is how our film will start, with the book opening on its own.

How the characters are introduced:
The characters in our film isn't really introduced properly in the opening of it as there is no dialogue other than the voice over on the 'dear diary..', straight after the credits, the lights come up on the three children with the oujia board, personally i think not introducing the characters within the first few minutes can be quite powerful and would make the audience want to watch on and see who these three youngsters ae and why they are doing an ouijia board.