1. What way does your media product
Use, develop or challenge forms and
Conventions of real media products?
2. General requirements
Real film openings
• The film opening should last
around two minutes however
large blockbuster films last
around five minutes
• There should be some kind of
sound track or sound to help
the audience establish the
setting and introduce the
characters
• It’s mandatory to have titles
• There should be a variation of
shot types
My film opening
• The Film opening was
around 1:54 minutes
• We had a Soundtrack, Non
diegetic sound, Foleys and
Dialogue
• We had titles
• We had a variation of shot
types
My Film opening meets
the general requirements
4. The genre of Can You keep A secret is Horror.
Horror is a film genre seeking to
elicit a negative emotional
reaction from viewers by playing
on the audience's primal fears.
Horror films often feature scenes
that startle the viewer; the
macabre and the supernatural are
frequent themes. Thus they may
overlap with the fantasy,
supernatural and thriller genres
We challenged this convention
5. Unlike normal horror films our film opening
wasn’t scary! We still elicit negative fearful
emotions from our viewers however, it's
because they had an understanding of what was
happening rather than them being left in the
lurch and playing on their primal fears
7. My film opening challenges the
normal forms and convections
Most teen horror film’s follow three story lines
The evil sprit or dark creature is focused on killing the teens as they have
something they want or have past history.
An unprovoked attack drives two teenager’s madly in love with each other into
fighting for their survival.
It’s the teenagers duty to save the world as only they can unlock the power to
end the horror
The blurb -
Three teenage girls are under
interrogation as they are
questioned about a dark past.
Georgia Oakley, Kadey Brash
and Jasmin Denford are three
regular teenage girls from the
outskirts of Cherisgham
however they find themselves
in a pickle when questioned
about their activities on
19/06/2012, in a attempt to
cover up what really happened
from the police they are forced
to re-live the dreadful events
of that day. tortured by past
events they are forced to go
back and re visit the scene of
19/06/2012.
The story line of can you keep a secrete follows a more realistic route
and experiments with the concept of real time , there are elements of
past, present and future in the movie which is different to a lot of teen
horror films as most things either happen in the past or real-time.
9. We used this convention as Our
teen film was set in a forest
otherwise known as the woods
which is a common setting for a
teenage horror film.
Common
setting for
Teen horror
film's
House
School
Woods
Abandoned place
Different realm
11. The characters in most teenage horror film’s are white. In my film all of the characters are black which
challenges the forms and conventions of regular teenage horror films. The characters were all black as
we wanted to challenge the norms and expectations of normal horror film’s, it’s interesting to see what
different social groups would do in this situation and how the audience reacts to them. The characters
are all female which is important as in horror film's there is usually a mixture of people who play the
leading roles having a mostly female cast is unusual.
Characters in regular teen horror films The Characters in My Teen horror film
13. Order of titles:
Production indent
Distribution indent
Distributor in title sequence
production in title sequence
Actor 1
Actor 2
Film title
Actor 3
Actor 4
Actor 5 etc.
Casting
Costume
Music supervisor
Music by
Edited by
Production Designer
Director of photography
Executive Producers
Written by
Director
The order of title
• We used this convention as it
wasn’t necessary to change the
order of titles as we didn’t have
multiple distribution or
production companies and big
name stars or a director that
needed to be placed higher up.
Pictures showing you the
order we placed our
titles in
14.
15. To conclude I think our film opening follows the conventions of
other teen film openings. Rather than developing or challenging
those conventions,. The film opening didn’t challenge many
conventions but there were slight differences, the reason for this
is because most teen horror movies are developed on big
production labels as warner bros, Columbia Pictures and New Line
Cinemas. Which focus on American films
Our film was based on the British scene so we were bound to have
differences as the UK social scene, teenagers and environment
are different to America.
Conclusion
