Opening sequence: Evaluation activity 1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The title of the film

I chose to show the title of my film at the end of the sequence. When it did appear, i made it very sudden so the audience are alert. When you think of the word 'Unknown' words like mysterious, strange, unfamiliar are related and come to mind. The picture below shows all the synonyms.

Setting/Location

I chose to use the location of my own house. The setting is introduced in the second shot, which is a shot of my bedroom. I chose the bedroom and hallway because when you normally watch horror films something happens which is bad when the character is sleeping.

Costumes and props

As, there was only one character in my film, i only had to think up a costume for one person. I chose for her to just be in her pajamas because she was in bed and thats what people wear when people go to bed and especially young girls. 

Camerawork and editing

Throughout the process of this task i have learnt a number of things about camerawork and editing. Although i have done this before with the prelimary task, i was more creative with this peice of work, when i say this i mean that i tryed out all different shots and effects. When i was editing in premiere pro, i cut clips which i had already learnt how to do that in previous task but i also was more creative with the video and audio effects.

Title font and style

 I used the font style 'Cracked' because it was very spooky and thought it suited the setting of my film well, i kept the colour plain and used white so that the audience can see what is written easily. If i had another chance to do the font i would put it into another program and make it move to get the audience watching even more.

Story and how the opening sets it up
The story is that a young girl is being watched by this unknown creature that see's everything in negative. She's unaware of this and something wakes up her up and she goes to investigate because odd things are happening like the window being wide open and she doesn't know how this has occured. When she goes to investigate downstair she  is stunned by the unknown character, which gives her a huge fright, then the audience hears two gun shot but no image has shown, so the audience do not know which one has the gun. This is going to be revealed in the rest of the film.

Genre and how the opening sets it up
The genre is a horror, the audience will know this because the music gives off this effect and is very spooky.

How the characters are introduced
The main character is introduced firstly in a negative video effect, this is because its what the unknown creature is seeing through its eyes. The character is in bed at this point and is unaware of anyone in her house or even watching her.

Special effects
I used a number of different effects. I added different video effects to some of the shots, this includes negative, a 4 screen effect, blurring the camera etc. I also changed the audio effects, i put more of an echo on it, i did this is premiere pro.