Evaluation plan

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

For the first few shots, a creepy nursery rhyme is being played in the background; this makes the opening sequence what it is I think, the nursery rhyme is called “Rock a bye baby” a very common nursery rhyme, this song is sung by a young girl. For example one of the shots is of a young girl looking outside the window; this shot is taken from the outside looking in at the young girl, which I feel forms a sense of fear, because of the way the reflection of the outside world is reflecting on the young girl as she looks out into it; what’s the thoughts that are playing on the girls mind, what has the big wide world got in store for this young girl.

Throughout the opening sequence, we aimed to set a creepy theme, changing the emotions that would originally appear when viewing simple clips like a girl looking outside the window, but the effects and use of lighting create different meanings. I think the main priorities are the lighting and the use of music that make our opening sequence what it is. I would like to think that our opening sequence is different than any original opening sequence when it comes to codes and conventions.

The mise-en-scene of our opening sequence works well, because it is set in the best place, both inside and closed in, both scenes were giving different meanings, but had the same feeling of fear. The opening sequence gives clues to what the rest of the film may be like and what to expect throughout. The titles of our opening sequence reflect on the genre of the film, especially how they fade off, and appear, in white giving a ghostly effect. Overall i feel the effects that were present were appropriate for the genre, and theme that was set out.