AS Evaluation Questions

Cerise Clarke, Paula Duru, Mickella Swaby

1.In what way does your media product use develop or

challenge forms and conventions of real media

products?

Inspirational Films

Hard Candy psychological thriller

Funny Games psychological thriller

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer Slasher film

Scream Horror/Thriller

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Horror/Thriller

Forms Set/Setting

Credits

Low Key Lighting

Tense Music

Changes In Camera Angles And Shots

Pace Changes

Conventions Complex Narrative Structure

Crime at the centre of the narrative

Uses of Technology

Deceptive Mind Games

Stalking

Tension

Violence

Hidden Identity

Hard Candy We Were heavily inspired by the interactive dialogue that occurred in hard candy and we decided to incorporate that element into our sequence.

Uses of Technology ✔

We Developed this convention as we used a mobile phone as the use of technology instead of an chat room on the internet. We Felt that the phone was more of an personal approach to the character that was receiving the messages and pictures.

Scream We Were heavily inspired by the Hidden Identity that occurred in Scream and we decided to incorporate that element into our sequence.

Hidden Identity ✔

We Challenged this convention as we didn't use a mask which would entirely block the killer/kidnapper’s identity. However we did have the villain in dark clothes with a hood up with is a modern way that identity is hidden.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Crime at the centre of the narrative ✔

We Developed the convention of crime being at the centre of the narrative by showing a newspaper article that was in the process of being made by our main character we did not show the article being made we show the main crime. We also decided to challenge the way the crime was presented as we showed this on a computer screen. Whereas Chainsaw Massacre showed written.

2. How does your media product (opening sequence) represent particular social

groups?