Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products

Typically a horror form would consist of the same elements. Even though there are many different types of horror film such as, gory, supernatural, paranormal, psycological and thriller. All of these horror films usually have the same key elements. These elements consist of a villan or group of villans, and most of all there is allways a victim. The veiwer usually sees the film through the same view as the victim which is why the films are seen as being scary. We used the typicall element that are widly seen in a horror film. We had a killer and a group of victims. We decided to create a mysterious opening. We looked at the opening of shrooms and the blair witch project, in the opening of shrooms we see a girl running away from something, this automatically tells the veiwer that there is something chasing the girl, but the audience does not yet no what it is. In our opening we used the same idea as this by following a girl running with a hand held camera. I think by using a hand held camera it adds to the scary effect as we are seeing what the victim is seeing. This bulids a really mysterious atmosphere. We did not challenge the forms of a real media product as we didnt think that the film would be as effective. This is because if we had no victim or killer the film would not be scary as there is nothing happening to build up suspence for the audience. Suspence is what makes a horror film, with out it i beleive that the film wouldnt come across as scary.