IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?
This video shows how are Opening Title Sequence, Conforms, Develops and Challenges convention. We used clips from other movies to show specifically how similar our horror is and how it develops other horrors ideas. We evaluated our horror and found examples of each convention. We found examples for our horror conformed with convention such as, we used suggestive and symbolic shots also found in 'Dexter' and many other Horrors. Also using a basement location is a very typical horror setting, found in movies such as 'The Haunting in Connecticut'. We also developed convention as we were developing audiences for fairy tales. Many other movies such as 'Maleficent' and 'Snow White and the Huntsman' have developed traditional fairy tales to older audiences by making them more serious and featuring mature content, though few have ever been made into horrors. Using a Tea-Party within our horror is also a very new and unused idea and therefore focusing on a Tea-Party on our Opening Title Sequence is helping to develop convention within the horror genre. Our particular Opening Title Sequence did not challenge convention much however using daylight hours in our woods scene is very different to a traditional horror mise-en-scene. Traditonal the woods would be dark, misty and spooky. Instead in our scene we just had a normal daylight setting challenging traditional horror ideas.