Evaluation - Question 1

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

For this part of the evaluation, i will compare 9 still shots from my title sequence (Four Walls) along with 9 still shots from the title sequence i was inspired by (Se7en).

Four Walls

Se7en

As a group, we were inspired be Se7ev's title sequence so our title sequence is quite similar to it. The objective of our aim was to build tension, create excitment and at the same time, make it suspenseful.

Compared to Se7ven, we have used similar techniques such as mise-en-scene and camera work in order to make it appealing towards the audience. In our 9 still shots, the main character was introduced and everything around involves her as she walk around and self harming herself. Whereas in Se7en, it is quite unclear who the character is and whether if that person is planning something and this make the audience questions themselves such as 'what is going on?' On the other hand, there are few similarities. For example, the fonts in both of the title sequences are white and it both show notes with writing on it.

Our camera work is a lot similar compared to Se7en's camera work. For example, we used many extreme close up shots to descibe the character as a whole. Likewise, in Se7en, it has a lot of extreme close up shots on the hands as the person is writing. However, in our title sequence, we also used other angles and different types of shots to emphasise certain things, for example, we used tiliting to descibe the character's personality as she suffer a psychological disorder.

For the mise-en-scene, we used an epmty space, dark lighting along with shadows to give it a spooky feeling and also to make it suspenseful.

Putting the sound together was not easy as we had to find the suitable music in or for it to match our title sequence. We also listened to Se7en's soundtrack as it is very squeaky so we added the squeakyness in our soundtrack. In the end, our soundtrack has a slow paced, a lot of squeakyness, drumbeats and some extra instrumentals.

For the props, it is also similar to Se7en as we see slicing hands using a blade unlike our one as we used a rusty scissors. we also used fake blood to make it very effective.

Overall, our inspiration is from the Se7en title sequence therefore, it is very similar as we used similar camera work, mise-en-scene, soundtrack and also props. In the end we managed to make it create the excitement and build tension and also, make it suspenseful.