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

Our media product, Premonition was uses real media products as our project was influenced by ‘Dexter’. This is because we decided to film part of our opening sequence in a house, which was our main characters and we wanted everyday normal aspects of life to be made sinister and as if someone was possibly watching him. Moreover, the use of the knife scraping the butter was completed in such a way, that our intentions were to make the audience feel very uncomfortable, and ‘on edge’. We chose to use a house, because we wanted to challenge the idea that a house is a safe place. A house is associated with a safe place, yet we wanted the audience to watch an opening sequence that challenges this; that way even more of an eerie and sinister atmosphere will have been successfully created.

Also, we had a scene in the opening sequence which has the main character in the woods, and this part was influenced by the movie ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Alike this movie, we had clocks on trees, umbrellas and the males dressing gown in the woods area which shows the confusion and dream state which we wanted to demonstrate. Moreover, I believe we created the confusing atmosphere that we intended to create, and this was done with the use of the physical objects. Moreover, the colour blue was a common occurrence throughout our opening sequence and we wanted the audience to ask all sorts of questions. Questions such as why is this colour keep occurring, why are there all of these objects and why are they in these specific locations? This is the common convention for a Thriller genre opening sequence; therefore we wanted to uphold this.