In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The reason Bex and I decided on our film being a combination of two genres; Horror and Thriller were because of the great variety of ideas it gave for us to challenge the forms and conventions of real title sequences. Together, Bex and I used different ways to make it fit within the conventions of both genres in order for our target audience to understand what type of film they are about to watch without the need for heavy dialogue.
Conventions of our certain genres were done to make it fit where we were able to add our own personalised techniques. For example we aimed to have a wide variety of camera shots, quite typical in a thriller to enhance the fear and mystery that is the unknown. Our main use of mise-en-scene was the photograph that suddenly appear scratched out after the panning shot is shown from our protagonist's perspective. Costume was that of a casual teenaged girl in today's society. Lighting was heavily used in our shots of the diary writing, where I wanted to capture the foreground in perfect clarity as the viewer's eye was led into the darkness.
In terms of location, we went against the stereotypical dark alley, late at night, deserted house attempt and replaced it with an old Pier, on a hazy day in a local area. Our main reasoning behind this, is because it is hardly somewhere you would expect a thriller to take place. It messes with the audiences mind, as they start watching the film thinking everything is cool and calm, when suddenly shock strikes that every other scene are flashbacks of a mysterious event.
When editing, I strongly used colour correction on all scenes. The diary writing shots have a 50's black and white hue over them to enhance the loneliness and mystery behind what she is writing. In comparison, the flashback scenes have been cropped for a more cinematic feel and have been colour corrected to 'spring summer' which has a perfect effect on emphasizing the past, a memory, something distant and faded away. This also helped with giving a feel for the genre for our film.
We used influences for shots such as The Woman In Black and Se7en. I was highly inspired to take the flicking through of the book from Se7en and the appearance of a figure through glass by changing the opacity and over laying. This overall worked quite well.
To conclude, Bex and I kept a lot of the conventions of a thriller/horror such as the the mystery, the pace of shots, close-ups, reaction shots, tension and eerie music to help the audience identify our film's genre. We also used the ghostly convention of a hand that suddenly appears on the window behind our Protagonist and disappears before much can be made of it....mysterious....
The reason Bex and I decided on our film being a combination of two genres; Horror and Thriller were because of the great variety of ideas it gave for us to challenge the forms and conventions of real title sequences. Together, Bex and I used different ways to make it fit within the conventions of both genres in order for our target audience to understand what type of film they are about to watch without the need for heavy dialogue.
Conventions of our certain genres were done to make it fit where we were able to add our own personalised techniques. For example we aimed to have a wide variety of camera shots, quite typical in a thriller to enhance the fear and mystery that is the unknown. Our main use of mise-en-scene was the photograph that suddenly appear scratched out after the panning shot is shown from our protagonist's perspective. Costume was that of a casual teenaged girl in today's society. Lighting was heavily used in our shots of the diary writing, where I wanted to capture the foreground in perfect clarity as the viewer's eye was led into the darkness.
In terms of location, we went against the stereotypical dark alley, late at night, deserted house attempt and replaced it with an old Pier, on a hazy day in a local area. Our main reasoning behind this, is because it is hardly somewhere you would expect a thriller to take place. It messes with the audiences mind, as they start watching the film thinking everything is cool and calm, when suddenly shock strikes that every other scene are flashbacks of a mysterious event.
When editing, I strongly used colour correction on all scenes. The diary writing shots have a 50's black and white hue over them to enhance the loneliness and mystery behind what she is writing. In comparison, the flashback scenes have been cropped for a more cinematic feel and have been colour corrected to 'spring summer' which has a perfect effect on emphasizing the past, a memory, something distant and faded away. This also helped with giving a feel for the genre for our film.
We used influences for shots such as The Woman In Black and Se7en. I was highly inspired to take the flicking through of the book from Se7en and the appearance of a figure through glass by changing the opacity and over laying. This overall worked quite well.
To conclude, Bex and I kept a lot of the conventions of a thriller/horror such as the the mystery, the pace of shots, close-ups, reaction shots, tension and eerie music to help the audience identify our film's genre. We also used the ghostly convention of a hand that suddenly appears on the window behind our Protagonist and disappears before much can be made of it....mysterious....
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