Evaluation- question 1

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

My interpretation of the question: how close is your thriller opening to actual real world thriller openings?

9 images of thriller openings:

9 images of my thriller opening:
 

(pictures are numbered from the top left being 1 and the bottom right being 9. Along to the right, down and repeat).

By looking at the pictures provided, you can see there are various similarities for both pictures to say my thriller opening can be classed as a thriller opening. However, there are also a few points which I could have adjusted to allow my piece to come across more as the genre that I was aiming for.

Picture analysis:

Pictures 9 for thriller openings and picture 2 for my thriller opening:

In the pictures that I have selected you can see the similarities in the type of editing used because it looks very dark and gloomy which is perfect for the thriller opening as it fits the selected genre. You can also see the person who edited both shots have added an effect to make the shot look a little bit jumpy and old fashioned which in turn make the shot look much creepier and better for a thriller.

However, in pictures 7 and 1

you can also see how the camera is looking down on the victim to show the dominance of the evil protagonist. This tells us as the viewers that the protagonist has got some kind of control or obsession with the person they are looking at and are going to harm them or are planning an evil plot to get to the victim. 

Points to improve on:

in some of my shots you can see that there is vibrant colours used. Even though they were used effectively in my footage to introduce an evil theme, the other shots provided did the same thing without the colours which should be something I should look to try and do for future reference.