1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
Forms of Conventions:
Our film is based as a psychological thriller and typical conventions that we used to form this was speed of continuity, close ups and fast paced editing to show emotions of the character building a tense atmosphere for the audience. These typical conventions used for our genre will help build the audience to follow our theory by reacting and feeling how we expect them to.
Narrative:
The film was scripted after we had researched into our genre, the films we mainly focused on were; Submarine and Kill List. We created a whole different character to fit our storyline, our lead character 'Chris' suffers from schizophrenia and puts himself and others in danger which was suitable for our genre. Our film begins with Chris crawling out of a lake which reflects directly onto our genre and making the audience feel confused as to why he is doing this.
Iconography:
Typical conventions of our genre are mental issues with the characters, to help portray this in our film we decided to use visual conventions such as the setting and the characters regular behaviour to represent its genre.
Camera:
After researching into psychological horror films, i realised that there's always a scene that builds up tension and false alarms before the event occurs. Having known this we decided to use close up and extreme close up shots to show emotions of the character to build tension and keep the audience focused. We also used a number of different techniques such as shallow focus, point of view, dolly, and over-the-shoulder shots to create a better view and affect to what's happening. I also noticed that in horror films, the characters are usually shown in high angle and low angle shots to portray each characters authority, in our film we decided to show Chris from a low angle point of view when the person on the floor's asking for help.
Typography:
The title sequence at the beginning of the film was set in a font that suits its genre and also plays transitions of where the scene's set, this gives the audience a slight hint of somethings about to happen.
Continuity & Editing:
Typical conventions of continuity and editing in horror genre's are expected to be of high pace and build up tension before an event occurs. After some research we decided to follow this and make certain shots to be high paced so that different views are shown ensuring the audience stay focused and a slight insight of something about to happen.
Iconography:
Typical conventions of our genre are mental issues with the characters, to help portray this in our film we decided to use visual conventions such as the setting and the characters regular behaviour to represent its genre.
Camera:
After researching into psychological horror films, i realised that there's always a scene that builds up tension and false alarms before the event occurs. Having known this we decided to use close up and extreme close up shots to show emotions of the character to build tension and keep the audience focused. We also used a number of different techniques such as shallow focus, point of view, dolly, and over-the-shoulder shots to create a better view and affect to what's happening. I also noticed that in horror films, the characters are usually shown in high angle and low angle shots to portray each characters authority, in our film we decided to show Chris from a low angle point of view when the person on the floor's asking for help.
Typography:
The title sequence at the beginning of the film was set in a font that suits its genre and also plays transitions of where the scene's set, this gives the audience a slight hint of somethings about to happen.
Continuity & Editing:
Typical conventions of continuity and editing in horror genre's are expected to be of high pace and build up tension before an event occurs. After some research we decided to follow this and make certain shots to be high paced so that different views are shown ensuring the audience stay focused and a slight insight of something about to happen.
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