Evaluation Q1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

When we first set out to make our film we were looking at previous slasher movies which had been made and were successful, we took notes and inspiration from others to make our film opening as good as possible, some of the movies that we looked at we used some intertextuality such as the title of our film and the ideas of using a masked killer.


When we did our film we tried using some of the common conventions examples from previous movies made, these examples that we based our film opening around were: 

• Halloween ( Wes Craven, 1996 ). This films story line is relative to ours by which the stalking scene in which the killers identity is hidden ( Barthes narrative enigma theory ). We also used this theory in our opening to help build up suspense and tension.

• Texas Chainsaw Massacre  ( Tobe Hooper, 1974 )was the next film that influenced our film opening. The reason that we based our movie around this film is because we thought our film showed some aspect of Todarov's stages of equilibrium. We believe that our movie shows this by the use of dis-equilibrium by which we cut back and forth between two sets of time ( equilibrium and dis-equilibrium ).