Evaluation Activity 1-Will Smith

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Here we are walking into the location for where much of our horror movie is filmed.There are three casually dressed teenagers strolling into the woods, which is the main setting for the introductory part of our film. We take shots of us walking into the woods from the front and then from behind. The characters are introduced obviously as being friends as they are seen chatting and laughing, enjoying each others company.






At the start of the film we used simple font and colouring for the titles to keep the viewers attention on the film. We get a better view of the teenagers height and clothes, giving a hint of their age.







This type of shot is typical to a horror movie set in the woods. It is showing that the teenagers are walking further and further into the heart of the woods, away from help.

The camerawork in this shot is a POV shot of the killer, creeping around in the woods watching the teenagers. This character is introduced without anyone knowing what he looks like or who he is, leaving mystery with him. This is typical of a horror opening leaving suspense with the viewers not knowing who the antagonist is.

In this scene the friends are all discussing about football. This is a subtle way of showing the three are just normal boy teenagers who love football and who commonly socialise with each other.

This shot is a key part of our film. The actors excuse for leaving is that he needs the toilet. This needs to be done so we can separate the teenagers from each other leaving them vulnerable to danger. It isn't unusual in horror films for a character to somehow find themselves alone and separate from friends.

The character is tapped on the back and suspects nothing of it-thinking it's just a friend. When he turns around we see an attempted expression of shock. This shows the audience the murderer is about to attack. We black out the ending of the opening scene leaving a cliffhanger to what happened to the unsuspecting teenager.