question 1
in what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of a real media product?
Our distributor appears first as this is the original order of any title sequence in a film.
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Following this is our production company logo, once again, as this is the order. By including a graveyard in our production company, it shows conventional representation of horror, as they are often seen as places of death and ghosts.
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Cassie running away and escaping from the mental hospital. Instantly creates the audience to suspect something bad is about to happen if she is trying to run away in desperation.
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The 1st of many carnage shots appearing throughout. They appear fast and quick to add drama and tension to our sequence. They are supposed to appear like flashbacks by using a flashing effect on Final Cut Pro.
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Cassie running into the still camera and turning around as she reaches the far left side of the camera. This location shows conventional representation of horror film locations, as they are often in scary looking houses, helping to create more tension.
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2nd flashback carnage shot of the people trying to run away. from the effect we use on the flashback you can tell that this is a different time to the present day. the washed out effect represent the flash backs.
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Panning shot showing Cassie running away.
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3rd flashback carnage shot or them trying to escape from the building. Flashbacks are not usually seen in horror films, as they sometimes can make it seem less realistic and therefore, it appears less scary.
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Long shot of Cassie arriving at the location of our scenes.
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4th flashback carnage shot.
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Our title will appear here. This is using the conventional representation of the fonts of horror titles being in red of black, as our background is black with red font appearing on it.
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Cassie's point of view looking at her weapon. Cassie's weapon shows that we are using Kaminski's theory that the weapon should be a personal extension of the killer, as Cassie uses a knife.
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5th shot from the flashbacks of carnage, showing that the people were unable to escape and they are all dead.
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The first shot of our two victims walking towards the camera and eventually end up out of the shot.
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Our two victims walking away from the camera but into the shot. When Cassie appears it turns into an over the shoulder shot.
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Mid shot showing the male victim dropping his phone.
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Point of view of the male victim picking up his phone that he previously dropped on the ground.
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Mid shot showing our victim rising from the ground after dropping his phone to discover that his friend has disappeared and Cassie is behind him.
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Low angle mid shot of Cassie asking the victim if he remembers her. It shows she has power and authority.
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6th flashback carnage shot.
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At the beginning of this shot it shows Cassie and the main victim in a long shot, then he begins to run towards the camera and eventually runs out of the shot.
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This is s still shot that shows the victims feet running away from Cassie.
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The victim runs into the shot. It then pans him.
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It pans back and Cassie appears behind him.
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Over-the-shoulder shot showing Cassie talking to our main victim telling him that he can never hide from her.
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9th flashback carnage shot. Close up of one of the dead people from the flashbacks.
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Close up of the victim showing fear towards Cassie. We are going against Carol Clover's theory of a woman usually being the victim, as ours is male.
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8th flashback carnage shot.
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Mid shot of Cassie stabbing the main victim.
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Camera tilts upwards showing the victim bleeding and the fear in his face.
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Camera tilts to show Cassie stabbing the victim again and him dropping to the ground in pain.
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Slightly high angle mid shot to show how vulnerable the victim is whilst he is coughing up blood.
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9th flashback shot showing a close up of Cassie with blood on her hands.
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Close up of the victim with blood on his hand.
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10th flashback shot which is a close up of Cassie's face showing the shock and confusion she feels to why she has blood on her hands.
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Panning shot of Cassie saying that she told him she wasn't crazy.
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Here we used a form/convention of a real media product (the Last Exorcism), as we dressed our killer in a white gown, covered in blood. This gives the effect of an innocent, pure person, however, the blood creates irony because blood often has connotations of death.
Carol Clover thought that the killer is often male and the victim is usually a vulnerable, innocent women, however, in our opening title sequence our victim was male. Also, our killer, Cassie is a girl, showing that we challenged Clover's theory. In Texas Chainsaw Massacre the female is the victim and the male is the killer, which is a conventional representation of most horror films, as males are often seen as more dominant and powerful.
We have challenged Wes Craven's horror theory, as he said horror films are effective if they are located in a safe location because it causes people to question whether there is truly anything safe. For our opening title sequence, we filmed in a location that would not be considered as safe, as it is out in the open and in the dark. Therefore, we went against Craven's theory. The Crazies has been filmed in a hospital, which is often seen as a place of safety and security.
This shows that our opening titles have followed the conventional representation of the horror title being red and bold, as this reflects the nature of horror being to do with blood and gore. However, we also used another font over the top of this plain, bold font which almost challenges the usual font for horror films, as it is slightly more adventurous.
OUR OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE
We supported Wes Craven's horror theory that suggests horror films should take place in places that are associated with safety, such as hospitals. Our flashbacks were filmed in a school, which is often seen as a well protected, safe place for children to attend.