In what ways does your media product use, develop or Challenge forms and conventions of real media product?For our opening sequence, our group realised that the opening sequence had to establish the genre to our target audience. We had to gain a full understanding of how we could develop or challenge real media products to our own opening sequence. In order for us to do this, we had to analyse other Teen slasher films, for example:Nightmare on Elm Stet, the Cabin in the Woods and Halloween

Our goal was to follow the conventions presented in these types of films so that our opening sequence could immediately present what type of genre of sequence it is, however, we also wanted to challenge the forms and conventions so that our opening sequence can instantly set the mood of the film and also be unique. In Nightmare on Elm Street the opening sequence there is a close up of the killer watching the girl as she makes her way through the factory, as soon as the frame is on the killer, he disappears. Therefore, we featured the killer looking at the victim by framing an extreme longshot of the killer in the background, and the couple walking on the path. We did this in various types of shot angles until we chose the one we thought was the most effective that suited our opening sequence.The overall product of our opening sequence had some real media products because a majority of the slasher/horror films are produced annually by UK film industries meaning the effects we use, or the items we use in our opening sequence would have already been used in more mainstream slasher films. E.g. the typical weapon used in Halloween was a kitchen knife. The typical effects used were CGI victims who are covered in fake blood and horrifically killed.Overall, our group believed we were successful when it came to meeting the conventions of real media products. This is because we had analysed and researched everything about Teen slasher films, and implemented the use of real media product in terms of camera angles, sound conventions, and mise-en-scene. From this, it enabled us to create the opening sequence more realistic and professional, as if it was a mainstream teen slasher film. We did this by using camera shots and specific editing that features in the majority of teen slashers and used it in our opening sequence. The both camera shots and editing instantly established the different types of meaning in the sequence, and it also help the build-up of the tension in the sequence so that the mood of the atmosphere can change from being all happy and joyful to more eerie and panicky in a matter of seconds. An example of this is when there is a long shot of the couple walking into the forest and it is a POV from the killer, this immediately changes the atmosphere completely as the camera starts to focus on the killer rather than the couple, which allows the transition between the two types of moods to change quickly.