Evaluation: Question 1 - In what ways does your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In the opening of many thrillers, you would expect the opening sequence to contain suspense or thrill to catch the audiences attention. This would also be to set the tone and genre of the film e.g if the film is meant to confuse the audience and leave them thinking about whats going to happen next, then suspense would be used. Our opening contains more suspense then thrill as out aim was to confuse the audience and leave them to link the story together and workout the plot and storyline. In many starting sequences, you would expect to see the title and the credits of the people who produced and made the film but this ain't always the case e.g the director Michael Mann has never used titles and credits at the start of any of his films, he always leaves them to the end. In our groups opening sequence, we made our titles very sketchy with a hand written effect to add meaning to out title as the film is called "The List" and the story behind it involves a handwritten list of names in a notebook. With the titles, you would expect to see the institutional ident of the film. Our Openings institutional ident was "Candi Studios". Music is a main aspect in thriller opening sequences as they are used to draw the audience in. My groups opening sequence uses music effectively to create suspense and build it up to catch the audiences attention. Most opening sequences either introduces the location of the main character or both. The main character is introduced in the start of our thriller as it was necessary to introduce the story and bring more suspense to the storyline of the opening sequence. Slow seduction or the quick thrill structure is used at the start of thrillers to create the suspense needed for the starting sequence. Our film uses both effects as it slowly builds up the thrill but also at the ending, of the opening sequence, there is a quick thrill jolt to scare the audience.