Evaluation question 1:

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

The conventions of film openings is what is stereo-typically common in most film openings. Some of the most common genre conventions in a typical teen film are love and comedy for example '10 Things I hate about you'  and '17 Again' . In most conventional teen films there is a conflict between teens vs authority. One example of where this is shown in is 'The Bling Ring' which we have studied in our media class because it represents the way how teenagers go against authority. Our teen film opening followed some of the conventions of a teen film. One of the way was through social network and how the four characters in our film used messaging as a way to meet each other up. For our title sequence we have also followed the conventions and put the titles in order of an conventional film starting off with our production ident followed by our distribution ident. Our ident's then would show up again in the title sequence because they are the most important part of the film as they are the ones that produced it and will distribute it. They are also important in beneficial ways because they would give you the money to make the film and without them there would be no film. We then followed the strict order of the title sequence putting the names of 2 actors followed by the movie title. This was on our media classroom wall so that we never forgot the order of the titles.


As a group we decided to interview one of the actor, Katie (the nerd) from the film.

Beginning of the film, the location starts of with the nerds room which follows most teen film openings because most films shows the teenagers packing in their room getting ready to school. Since our film genre was a teen horror, Katie "the nerd" is packing to go camping with her friends. The place that they will go camping is in the woods and this is similar to another film 'Cabin in the woods'  "Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for"(IMDb). Our characters also follow the conventions of a teen film because the movie opening starts off with "the nerd" then goes to "the athlete" followed up by "the princess" and our last character is "the weird kid" that no one likes or in a conventional horror, he is "the killer".The athlete is wearing a baseball jacket to represent that he is into sports and he is fit and strong but also like conventional teen films the jock is likely to be stupid. The princess is wearing a dress to make her role look more believable but her dress isn't pink like a princess instead it is black to foreshadow what will happen later on in the film. Black represents death so it  foreshadows just like in a conventional horror film, the pretty is always the first one to die.