Question 1

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

Forms of conventionsIn order for our film to hit its genre we portrayed different styles of forms and conventions in order to re lect this theme, such as the speed of the continuity, and using extreme close ups when showing great detail to create tense atmosphere for the audience. By creating this idea, it’s helping our audience to also play along to our theory of how we want them to react and feel. Feelings such as uneasiness.

NarrativeWe came up with the plot a ter researching into films such as the ring and the grudge. By creating a similar but not in the same extreme character Lucinda, we decided to then focus of the age and the troubles that she can be facing with. To re lect this plot we decided to start the opening sequence as a non-linear, to show the audience a little more information from Lucinda’s past by creating

lashbacks, and get them intrigued from the start and not lose focus of the plot.

Iconography

To help and portray stereotypical scenes in our film, we decided to use visual conventions such as the costumes, setting and characters to represent its original genre.

CameraA ter watching horror films, I noticed how there’s always a build up and false alarms before the actual event occurs. So we decided to use extreme close ups to create a false alarm to the audience and keep them on the edge of their seats. We also used forms such as shallow focus and focus pull to change the focus of an object to something else and get the audiences attention to what we’re trying to portray. Other shots such as over the shoulder angle just allowed the audience to see who’s speaking by seeing them at the same time. I also noticed how in films such as the ring the angle of the camera always re lects the power of the characters so we decided to use the same perception in our film, and let the audience look up to Lucinda and down to the psychiatrist.

Typography

The title at the beginning of the opening sequence was designed and edited to signify the genre of the film which is horror but also give a little hint of what’s about to start.

Continuity & EditingIn horror films it is almost expected for the continuity to pace up the speed up before the event occurs, so a ter researching and planning out specifically the speed of the continuity and the shots used we got another idea, that by editing and using short length but speeded up shots we would create a rhythm of anticipation and continuity for the build up to the event and a awareness of verisimilitude.