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

For our main task, my group decided to do an opening title sequence for a film in the horror genre. The main reason for doing this was because all the members of the group have seen many horror films throughout our lives and felt it would be safe if we worked with this.
“Horror films are movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness. Many horror movies also include a central villain.” – Wikipedia
My group worked with this quote to create our title sequence, but we mainly used the theme of death and mental illness. Furthermore, we developed such existing openings like ‘The devils rejects’. http://timeldridge.blogspot.com/2010/02/devils-rejects.html This opening title sequencing is very similar to ours, it uses the missing pictures which is one of the main signifiers we used throughout our piece.
From doing research into the horror genre we discovered what the best age boundary to aim at for our target audience – 15-19(late teens). Purely for the fact that this is what we are and we know what does and doesn’t scare us. This was a benefit as it greatly helped us to plan and work on our opening title sequence and to conform a lot of common elements of modern horror films such as murder and kidnapping.