IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS

AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

BOTH FILMS USE A SCHOOL SETTING, THIS TELLS US ITS MEANT TO BE A FORMAL AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR CHILDREN, HOWEVER IN BOTH OF THESE FILMS, SCHOOL IS IN FACT THE OPPOSITE, FULL OF DECEPTION AND EVIL ADULTS! THIS SOMEWHAT ADDS TO THE FANTASY ELEMENT OF THE FILMS, THIS IS BECAUSE EACH FILM PROVIDES A SENSE OF ESCAPISM FOR THE AUDIENCE AS THIS IS NOT YOUR 'NORMAL' EVERY DAY SCHOOL. AS WELL AS THIS, IT TOUCHES UPON HUMOUR BECAUSE THE WORLD IS ACTUALLY REVERSED, THE STEREOTYPE OF NAUGHTY SCHOOL CHILDREN, IS ACTUALLY TAKEN ON BY THE TEACHERS WHO ARE MEANT TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CHILDREN.

MATILDA:

All of the films have one major similarity, the evil adult. The antagonist in each film, is an older person who uses and/or dislikes the children. However each of them are very different...

In A Series Of Unfortunate Events, the antagonist is a man who uses the children for his own benefit, to get money and then betrays them as an uncle. This story line is very similar to the one in our film as the antagonist is also male and uses the child to steal pens back for himself, and then betrays him by framing him and turning him in the pen police, however in ASOUE the antagonist gets caught, compared to Ink by which Mr. Cross gets away with it, we decided to give Ink a more quirky ending as most films end with the bad guy getting caught and so we went against the typical codes and conventions of a children’s film.

The antagonist in ASEUO looks a lot scarier than Mr. Cross in our film, we didn’t want to over exaggerate his character and give away that he is the evil one, so we relied on other aspects of mise-en-scene rather

than just costume, instead we used lighting and dialogue to portray him as ‘odd’.

Miss Trunchball has the same role as Tommy, however we didn’t want to portray him as violent and aggressive towards children, we wanted to keep the film funny and quirky so we decided to replace the violent character trait with sly and sneakiness, this is the opposite to Miss Trunchball as she is very openly mean to children as shown when she swings a girl around by her pig tails in front of all of the whole school. This is different to Mr Cross as in order for us to keep the film a mystery we had to keep his operation private, so to do this we kept it hidden in a secret room in the school that he works in.