EVALUATION – QUESTION ONE1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My Product Typical Thriller/Horror Conventions

My Production – use, develop or challenge?

Comparison to Existing Products

Titling – colour, font and style

Font normally used: CourierFont colour used: Red (blood/danger/anger/love)Font style: on screen, pause and fade out

Font used: Adobe Arabic (Regular)Font colour: White(No death) Font style: Typewriter (Help build suspense)We developed this, as the normal titling wouldn’t fit with our finished product.

Horrors and thrillers like misery/secret window/ 12monekys

Camera Movement- pan, track, crab, crane

Establishing shot at the beginning to show location.Zoom in after establishing shot to point out victim.

No establishing shot or zoom in to show location as we subverted the horror genre and decided to get straight into the film by an introduction of the characters.

Psycho: uses an establishing shot to show location then zooms in to show victim.

Framing a shotECU, CU, MS, LS, ELS

Framing shot normally used: a medium shot to help show victims, protagonist, and antagonist.

Shots Used: medium shot, close up, low angle shot, high angle shot, low level shot, zoom in.We used this idea as it helped the audience realise who might be a victim.

Seven: starts with medium shots of protagonist.

Camera AngleHigh, Low

From killers view: high angle to show vulnerability of victim.From victim view: low angle to show authority of killer.

High angles and low angles were used to show victims and weakness.We used this idea again as it helped establish characters.

Seven: uses a low angle shot to show the authority and power the protagonist has.

Mise-en-Scene

Dull remote/isolated location to show that the victim has no chance of surviving or escaping what is about to happen to him/her.

Bathroom/Bedroom are isolated areas as it is only one person in each location. Showing the person is alone and there is no escape.We developed this idea as it helped suit our target audience.

Misery: uses a room, which with just him by himself in it showing that he is isolated from everyone one else like a victim in a horror/thriller film.

Editing – jump cuts, match

Fast editing normally used when something is about to happen to

Match cuts to show a continuous story.

Seven: gives the audience a quick image of what has

cuts, reverse shots, cutting rhythm

help build suspense.Editing used at the beginning of the movie is fluid to help unsettle the audience before something happens.

Reaction Shots to show when something happened.Cutting rhythm used to help establish the story.So used this idea as we decided to kind of stick to the horror/thriller ways.

happened in the beginning and what is going to happen later on.

Sound Dark/Eerie sounds used to help create tension and also unsettle the audience.

Subverted the normally thriller music and went for more general music to make the audience feel comfortable before tension starts to build and this again helped show who our target audience was.

Psycho: uses dark eerie music in the begging to make the audience uncomfortable.

Narrative Theory

Roland Barthes – Enigma CodesTsvetan Todorov-Equilibrium Levi-Strauss- Binary OppositionVladimir Propp

Roland Barthes – Enigma Codes.We crated a mystery for the audience to try and figure out.

Scream: TodorovAll starts with an equilibrium but then loses balance as the film moves on.