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

Louis Harris

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

Our media product challenges the forms of real productions by using alternative shots. In terms of the antagonist, we made sure that the identity of him was never shown so when we were capturing the footage Izzy the cameraman would never film above my head. Our aim was to create an out of reach and isolate location and by filming various landscape and then the creepy antagonist it conforms to the ideologies of people who live in rural areas.

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

Our ident has developed forms and conventions of real products because it would be one that could be associated with the film industry. We used clouds because most of the idents that we researched all had some form of clouds in their own ident. So by sticking with the cloud theme we have developed ideas of other film companies.

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

Another way we have challenged the forms and conventions of real products is through hand held camerawork. Hollywood films are much more inclined to use dollies when filming. The group felt that by using a hand held camera at times during the product the audience would be provided with an alternative film which would be as good as the mainstream Hollywood films. The handheld camerawork can be seen during the running scenes.

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

Like many thriller films, at the end of our piece there was a moment of silence before a hand comes up from below the frame and makes the audience jump. In most thriller/horror films there is the element of surprise in order to get the audience excited, it scares them when they least expect it. We used this typical convention because it is very effective and it is a brilliant way to finish our product.