The document summarizes a student's media studies evaluation of their horror film opening assignment. It discusses how the opening uses conventions like eerie music and dramatic titles while challenging conventions by not including any deaths. It represents contemporary social groups like a teenage girl victim and social outcast killer. The student thinks their film would be distributed by Icon Film Distribution due to their experience with horror films. The targeted audience is teenagers aged 15 to 17. Common horror film conventions and actors of a similar age were used to attract this audience. The student learned skills like editing with Final Cut Express, creating titles with Livetype, and composing music with Garageband. They also learned camera functions and how to improve editing skills from their preliminary task.

1. AS Media Studies Evaluation Holly Crossley Turner