Evaluation Question 1

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

I have chosen these nine images above as they represent the conventions of a horror movie quite well. Not all of them are particularly scary in but there are some aspects that make it relevant. However there are some problems that we did encounter and we did work pretty hard to fix them to the best of our ability.

I believe that our film opening is like a traditional horror movie that you would see as we have tried to make it as ‘close to home’ as possible to make it relate to our target audience so it will seem like a normal thing that could happen them. For example the boy at the bus stop listening to music not paying attention to anything that is happening around him. This is a typical thing that most teenagers do in this day and age and we wanted to incorporate this for that reason.

 My partner and I had films like ‘The Ring’ in mind when we thought of this. As in this film they had a false start in this film near the beginning. This is represented in the picture above, first column second down, showing that he can’t see what’s coming but everyone else can.

The location that we chose was a bus stop as seen in the magority of the shot above. This is not a typical horror film setting but we used it as horror films mainly take place in what seems to be a safe environment and a place where most of our target audience would have to visit on a day to day bases whether they like it or not.

• the title of the film
• setting location
• costumes/props
• camerawork/editing
• title font/style
• story/how the opening sets it up
• genre/how the opening suggests it
• how characters are introduced
• special effects