EVALUATION ACTIVITY ONE.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)

Here is a 9 frame grid for my film opening 'Something Wicked'.

The nine frame grid shows shots I feel best represents what I was trying to achieve.

Frame 1

This is the first shot that appears on screen (excluding the production logos). It is the establishing shot which sets the scene and builds up the tension, as the audience may be wondering where the location is and what relevance it has. to the film.

Frame 2

Frame 2 is shot through a green house window, and shows leg shots of a girl walking along the garden path. I particularly like this shot as its unusual and makes it look like the girl is being watched.

Frame 3

This shot is a close up of the shed door, I think the rusty pad lock adds to the effect of the film opening and creates an uncertainty of what might be inside. It also has a contrast of the colours used in the rest of the opening, as later shots become darker.

Frame 4

This frame shows where the Main title comes in. We used decorative/eroded/old styled font called Kingjola, from dafont.com. This is a common font type to have in supernatural thrillers, as I found out whilst planning and looking at exsisting film openings such as Rosemary's baby,where such font is used. In Final Cut Express we added effects to the main title which included, Gaussian Blur, Earthquake and Directional which makes it shake about on the screen, which I feel really adds to the atmosphere.

Frame 5

Tracking shot of the props provided inside the location.
Giving the feel that the audience doesn't really know what's going on.

Frame 6

I used this frame as it is a good example of the font style used and it also shows how we gave credit to the composer of our soundtrack.

Frame 7

I used this frame because it shows the opening has gotten lighter compared to the rest inside, also it is the beginning of the hand sequence.

Frame 8

This shot is of the final filmed scene in our opening, it also shows that the character's hands are in view now and has found the significant object, the book.