Evaluation Question 1

In our media production of making our short opening sequence we had to fit in different codes and conventions from the theme horror/thriller. The codes and conventions for this theme were blood, darkness, thrill, some sort of grusome murder.

So in this first screen shot you can see that some sort of incident has taken place and we know that the main character has been abadoned so this indicates to the audience that the victim was innocent.

In this part of our opening sequence we used broken mirror pieces to signify the presence of bloody mary as that dare is taken place infront of a mirror. The sharp edges of the mirror van be a form of danger and fear.

Throughout our filming we had to find ways to develop the codes and conventions into our opening sequence, one way was to use blood an it signified the theme horror and the myth bloody Mary, you can see in the screenshot that there was blood and a piece of mirror on the victims hand. Both of these props together created suspense as it seemed to look like murder.

Most sleepovers are for young teenage girls, which have fun, in this screen one of the girls chucks pop corn at the other this shows that before the whole bloody Mary incident they were three normal girls having a sleepover.

In most thrillers inoccent people are targeted by the villains. In our opening sequence we had to ensure that people knew that they were three inoccent girls targeted by bloody Mary to create the horror film atmosphere.

The different types of shots we used also helped us develop the codes and conventions of a thriller. A close of her mouth is focusing only on what she's saying and ignoring her surroundings to make the viewers intrigued.

This is the scene were most of the action took place, the lighting of this shot was dark and got darker. It went pitch black, this will help create fear and emotions for the character as they cant see what's happening in the dark.

The end scene is a flash forward to show what has happened. It creates suspense because the ending scene has darker lighting and leaves the audience in the dark about what has happened to tge the other two inoccent character's.