Evaluation 4
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My media product is a thriller genre but however we have decided to combine it with action as our film is an action-thriller, but when we first drafted the clips together we realised that the music we used made the film feel too much like an action film so we had to pick something that added more tension to the OTS rather than having up tempo action music.
This means that our OTS is a hybrid of action-thriller, we did this as we believe that it would have a wider audience range and would hopefully be more popular and receive positive feed back.
In our work we tried to follow the conventions of existing thriller films as much as we could:
This mood board shows some of the main conventions of thriller films and in our OTS you can see some of these how these have been reflected into it. For example it contains two heroes that are hunting down a powerful villain, we also have many themes such as crime and assassination with main villain being a infamous assassin being hunted for various murders. We have also kept to conventions with the props we used by using things that are associated typically with a thriller film like guns and cars, the fast paced editing is also typical of thriller films as it builds tension especially when coupled with music that builds up. We also had the detectives searching a house in a suburban area which is where thriller films are most commonly set.
However my aims where to break conventions as much as possible, as in my opinion most big Hollywood films have become very repetitive and I wanted to create something that would stand out from the crowd. I did this by changing the order of titles that appeared on screen, from the list of the traditional order for most opening title sequences. The most noticeable of these is having the title of the film "Vindicate" appearing at the very end. Unfortunately I soon realised that it was useless to try and challenge conventions, therefore I ended up developing conventions, which was much easier as we had taken inspiration from many other films (such as Die Hard and The Dark Rises) because of this the conventions from those films may reflect in our final work.
Looking back at my preliminary task the quality of my media products I produced have increased dramatically, the most noticeable thing is the improvement in camera work as in the preliminary task we broke the 180 degree rule multiple times. However while filming our opening title sequence we kept within the rules and also incorporated different angles which we shot the scene at. 
Our opening title sequence uses conventions and forms frequently, I can see this as we use dramatic music that builds towards a certain point emphasising the thriller genre. We also followed conventions by including the titles of the main people involved in creating the film e.g. the director, producer and main cast. However we have the title of the film appearing at the end of the OTS which defies the normal order of showing the name first. We did this to make our product stand out from the others as people will get bored if products seem to repeat themselves.
