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

media products? (i.e. of real film openings)

Luke Penn

Title of the film

• This is the first of the nine frames I had screen grabbed. We decided to have the main title come in at this point as there is a sudden change in atmosphere when the alarm clock goes off where the music changes from very dramatic to mysterious. At this point our title sequence changes from a montage to a continuous title sequence so we thought it was an appropriate point to add the title of the film in. We chose the title ‘Missing’ as our film is about a kidnapping where a girl goes missing. This is a very typical title for a thriller film.

Setting of the film

• The screen shot I used is showing the where the film is set. Our film is set at the Castlefield house. We decided to use this as our setting because it was the easiest option for us to do. The shot shows a Point of View shot looking into the window. The purpose of this shot is that it gives the audience an idea that there is someone spying on the character in our film.

Costumes and Props used

• The third frame shows the costumes and the props we used for our film. We used these props as shown in the screenshot to make the the setting of the room to look more like a teenage girls room. This shows a stand to hold jewelry and a couple of family pictures on the window sill. This helps the audience understand where we are in the film.

Camerawork and editing

• The camera work used in the first screenshot implies something mysterious as it is a point of view shot of the camera looking into the window and then turning back, this gives off a mysterious atmosphere which fits really well with our thriller film. The second screen shot shows two shots of editing where the camera zooming in on the very obvious word in the bold heading ‘DEATH’ which gives the audience an idea of what the film is looking towards. The editing we used in this part was we swapped from the newspaper opened to the newspaper closed using match on action.

Title Font and Style

• This screenshot shows the style of the font we used the titles of our film.

Story and how the opening sets it up

• The screen grab I decided to use for how the opening sets up the story was towards the end of the sequence where you can see our character walk off into the distance, this gives us an idea that after this scene she goes ‘missing’ which is the title of our film. We get this sort of vibe because of the sounds and music on the background gives off an eerie and mysterious atmosphere which makes the audience believe she is the character that will go missing.

Genre and how the opening suggests it

• The genre for our film is a thriller. The opening of our film makes it very easy to suggest our film is a thriller purely based on the sounds and the music in the background of the title sequence. The sounds give off a very dark and mysterious atmosphere which fits in very well with a thriller type film. The audience can also tell it is a thriller based on some of the shots we used. We used a lot of point of view shots to suggest that there is a second unknown character in our title sequence looking into the house of our known character. A lot of close up shots also like the screen grab I took of the newspaper article that clearly points out the word ‘death’ which is a main part in a thriller film.

How characters are introduced

• In our title sequence our characters are introduced at the beginning of the film where you see our main character waking up in the morning and getting ready for the day.