Our film opening sequence established the horror genre location in the woods with an establishing shot and long shot of the protagonist, using non-diegetic music but no dialogue to create mystery around the victim, developing this with added sound effects of branches snapping and screaming. While using conventions like a female victim and creepy woods setting, we challenged expectations by making the antagonist also female rather than a male as is more common in the genre.

2. During the filming of our sequence we tried to
use and develop the typical form of an opening
sequence at the equilibrium stage. We started off
with an establishing shot to introduce the
location, then a long shot of the protagonist. We
used non-diegetic music which helped to
introduce the genre of horror to the audience. We
used no dialogue which is typical of a horror
opening sequence, creating a mystery about the
victim. However, we developed this by using
some sound effects added in like branches
snapping and screaming.

3. We used the typical conventions of a real film by
having a female victim in our film. However, we
also challenged this by having a female
antagonist which is not typical of our genre of
film. We used the convention of a lone woods as
our location which is seen commonly in real films
and opening sequences of our genre. We also
used “Creepy” background music and sound
effects in our sequence which are both used in
real media products like ours.