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

Our opening sequence was mainly influenced by the opening sequence for the film Se7en, which relates to ours as it focused on one main character and the credits.
It includes the casts names and the directors etc. The footage shown is that of the murderer cleaning his knife, and preparing his chloroform. It had to be suitable for the horror genre and therefore included athe clothing of a mask on the man and a knife, the main features were the props used that held significance as they were going to be used later on in the film. The role of an opening sequence is to introduce you to the characters, via introductions that can be shown through dialogue and text. Each character spoke and had a fair amount of screen time to introduce you to them and the text showed their names and who they played.
The narrative was straight forward and concentrated on Amy being kidnapped and the other two girls being left to fend for themselves. The credits appeared first, and this gave you a chance to understand the murderer and it gave you an insight on what's to come.
The extreme close ups of the murderers hands allowed the audience to focus on every detail and investigate what he was doing. The editing showed his actions in slow motion and each shot lasted around four seconds to give the audience a chance to read the credits.
The music is tense and non-diegetic and builds up tempo until the end where it stops abruptly to make the audience focus on what is to come.
The typography of the title was red which is a symbolism of danger and horror and definitely represents this through the idea of blood.