The document discusses various elements used in the opening of a thriller film including font style and size, genre, shots, props, camerawork, costumes, locations, story, special effects, and title. The opening scene is dark and suspenseful, showing someone being killed at a church to draw the audience in and raise questions. Key props like a rope are used to frame the protagonist for murder. Various camera techniques like pans and tracks are employed. Characters wear dark clothing to seem intimidating compared to the protagonist. Locations like a forest and church increase fear and suspense. The opening sets up an innocent man being tortured to show he is the victim and spark interest in why he was killed and if his soul will be

1. In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and convections of
real media products?(i.e. of film opening)
Thuheen Miah

2. Title Font And Style

3. Through out my film opening I’ve decided to make my font colour and size the
same throughout.This is so that it looks more profesional as this being consistent.
Furthermore, using the same font and size allows the reader to read clearly and
therefore not take any struggle in reading the titles. We have chosen to make the
font red as the colour red is not to dark and to light , in addition the colour red links
well with our genre thriller as it connates with blood, death, danger which are all
generic convection. We chose to make it an appropriate size in order to build
suspense through simplicity.

4. Genre And How The Opening Shot Shows This.

5. In our film opening, we immediantly went into scene where it was dark. I had used
this as opening shot to draw a suspense atmosphere to the audience also to
foreshadow that something bad will happen. The Church is one of our chosen
main location, this is where we used non-diegetic sounds; Church bells to make
the audience feel intensed. The first scene is where it jumps into action to show it
is not a short film. The first scene shows someone being killed. We show this
through out the film but not telling the audience why he was murdered, this was to
make them question why he died therefore making them still interested.

6. Props

7. We have used many props but our main prop was the rope. The rope was the key
item which was used to mureder the protagonist. A rope is seen as a useless type
of method to murder someone but the reasoning behind this is to frame the
protagonist. This will is what is known as dramatic irony as the audience knows
whats happening but the actors do not. This will therefore engage the audience
into hoping for a good opening making them what to watch it till the end.

8. Camera Works And Editing

9. We had used many camerawork and editing. The most significate one was Pan
and Track. Here we have Pan where the protagonist was kicked to the floor. We
had done this through the use of the tripod to make it steady and leveled. For
Tracking we had the dead body of the antogonist and showed him head to toe,
this was not possible for the tripod as this was low level so we had to use our
hands and be steady.

10. Costumes And How The Character Are
Introduced

11. In the film we had four characters all wearing tracksuits or hoodies. These were
the typical clothes of what teenagers tends to wear. However we can see the
protagonist the only odd one out as his clothes is lighter, this is to show his
innocence. Where as the others have a more darker clothing to show they’re the
opposite. We introduced three characters by trying to murder the protagonist, here
we can see the fear and frustration on the protagonist this was because we
wanted the murders to look intimidating which brings fear to the audience.

12. Settings And Locations

13. We had two main location:
The Forest- We used this location where the protagonist dies. This is because the
character is surrounded with no escape routes, this shows he is trapped also a
forest can be seemed repeated therefore it implies your trapped. This will bring
fear and suspense to the audience which is a key generic convection. A forest is
also a typical place where people get lost and killed, we wanted to link our film
opening to this.
The Church/Cementry- This is another location which we have chosen as this is
generic convection in terms of location as this draws suspense and fear to the
audiend. This was due to that we wanted the same feelings of the audience to
carry on. This being our intention, we wanted shows that someone has died and
had come back alive from the dead which would seem impossible.

14. Story And How The Opening Is Set Up

15. This is a key scene where we see the protagonist tortured.This scene is significant
as we want the audience to know the portagonist is not a bad person and is
innocent. We wanted to show that these ‘baddies’ had no ‘heart’ and did not care
when taking a person’s life away. We have hinted to the audience that the
protagonist is coming back alive but have not given any reason sort to why he was
being killed in the first place. This will keep the intrest of the audience and bring
fear to them as they know that this sort of stuff, where people get murdered, has
happened before in real life.

16. Special effect

17. We have used many special effects these includes fading, slow/fast motion,
freezing frames etc. Through the use of theses, this helped us bring a more thriller
theme as fast/slow motion brought in suspense. The most significant effect was
the flashing to portray a camera flashing. This effect engages the audience as
them thinking that someone is taking pictures as they know what is happening.
This then makes us belive if there is a witness and will he come forward.

18. The Title Of The Film

19. The film is called ‘The damned soul’. The story line was about a innocent person
being killed comes back alive to avenge himself, thus we had a conclusion to
name it ‘The damned soul’ because the character soul is damned as it comes
back to life. The title is the only part where is the only thing where the font is
different, this is because we want to show the importance of the title.