Question 1

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

Conventions for the Thriller Genre

Conventions for Thriller Opening Sequences

       

Opening sequence conventions from CsengeNemeti

Titles in opening sequences:

Opening sequence titles tend to be coloured white and fade on and off the screen so to not distract the audience from the scene being shown. The white colouration also allows the titles to be seen, but not look overpoweringly bright or tacky. I saw that a student made this mistake, colouring his titles a teal colour as shown below:

Ed and I kept to the convention of using white titles which flash on and off with a simple font so to not distract the audience. We also did not contain all of the credits which we had originally planned to. This was because Ed suggested (and I agreed) that too many titles would take away from the opening sequence. They were excessive, and all that was necessary, were the studios, production company, directors and a few actors, as demonstrated in Silence of the Lambs in which minimal titles are shown.