Ameena Haq - Question 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e of film openings).

"Once upon a time" is the title of our thriller opening. The title suggests a link between the storyline as it is primarily based on fairy tales and the subversions of it. The use of the title also suggests a strong link to the past and is also a subversion of a the fairytale format because is in fact more accurately described as a thriller.
It's filmed in the school because it suggests "the typical life of a student", and it challenges the stereotype of a school girl, as she is a supposed serial killer, instead a frivolous fashionista. The use of the serial killer archetype is typical to the thriller genre, and so manages to uphold the conventions.
The drawings of the fairytale charachters help to establish the narrative and the subversion of fairytales, because they are not photographic and they are products of my imagination. The opening establishes the protagonist and hints to the possible killing of a parent, which sets up the narrative.