Task 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions or real media products?

This shot is our opening shot to our film sequence. It conforms to the Hollywood conventions, because it starts with having one of our protagonists in the opening shot, and has the credits of the company who made the film. The writing we used for our credits, was a simple font, using a simple font does not fit with the typical Hollywood convention of having dripping blood writing, to show the horror of the film. We felt the contrast of the white on the black made it stand out more.

This is an establishing shot, which in a conventional Hollywood film would be the opening shot, but we decided not to use it in our opening shot, because we felt it did not give the effect we were looking for. The shot shows you the whole area, with the two protagonists, and the editor of the film. It sets the feel, of a small cramped room which is covered in lots of pieces of paper, making you think that they have been there for a long time.

This shot introduced the young girl, who was one of the protagonists of our film sequence. Young girls are quite often used as the victim in a lot of Hollywood horror films, as they are seen as vulnerable characters. Where as in our film sequence we had the young girl as the one in control, yes she was possessed by the devil, but she was the character that everyone else was relying on. As our target audience was teenagers, having a young girl as one of the protagonists helped promote the film sequence.

This shot of Russel, the other protagonists in our film sequences, is quite similar to a shot in the film 'Interrogation Room'. This shot shows you that, they are in fact in a room, being observed by people. Like a lot of Hollywood films, we used an actor that we felt represented the character in the way we wanted them to be represented.

This shot introduces the people who are watching into the interrogation room. In a typical Hollywood film, you would expect the people to be watching, middle aged men, but we challenged the audience in using teenagers, as the people trying to figure our what the young girl was trying to tell them.

This shot is a close up, of the young girl scribbling on the glass, while being watched by the teenagers on the other side. They can see her and what she is doing clearly, while she is oblivious as to the fact she is being watched. Like in the Hollywood industry, it is showing the two characters and their differences in their roles.

This shot is a mid shot of the young girl writing on the glass, and the other protagonists hand, showing he is still involved in the shot. This shot was a good one for showing the scene from a different point of view, and emphasising the point of the glass, showing that they can not see through it. We wanted the audience to be involved and have their opinion of what was happening, just like in a Hollywood film, as the American industry, use numerous shots like this throughout their films, to keep the audience involved and interested.

This was our title sequence, It was simple and to the point. It had the title of our film, and a picture of the pentagram, which was what our title sequence was based around, and where the idea for it came from. This conforms to a typical Hollywood film in some ways, but in others it doesn't. Some Hollywood films, In 'Gothika' they simply have the title come up on a black screen, as we do in ours. Where as in 'The Shining' they just have the title come up during the playing of the sequence.