1. EVALUATION – QUESTION ONE
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My Product Typical My Production – Comparison to
Thriller/Horror use, develop or Existing
Conventions challenge? Products
Titling – colour, font The typical conventions In our film called saving Our film in
and style of a horror genre are that grace we use white comparison to
they are usually dark and skinny letters that are in others is pretty
representative colours so capitals and this is different and could
things like reds and because we want to be compared to
blacks. The font is give the idea of very few film but a
normally quite large and innocence fading away film like the shining
bold in an attempt to and that’s why we would match it as it
make it seems more make the letters fade doesn’t fit with a lot
imposing and as well as out at the end of the of conventions as it
this there’s normally a shot to make it show uses blue skinny
very plain font. this. This is mainly letters.
challenging
conventions though.
Camera In the thriller genre they In our film we tend to Our film is very
Movement- pan, normally tend to do a lot stick to a lot of the similar to a lot if the
track, crab, crane of canted shots, close conventions of thrillers other films out
ups and panning shots with panning shots and there in this genre
and this is intended to close ups as well and mainly because a
cause a close this is ok because it lot of the shots that
relationship with the singles the film out as a we used are ones
character whilst at the thriller. used by all genres.
same time a mystery.
Framing a shot A lot of the shots that are We mainly used a lot of For our opening
ECU, CU, MS, LS, used are close ups and long shots because we few minutes we do
ELS or extra long shots and don’t want there to be use a lot of wide
these are commonly an obvious connection shots and this is
used because it gives with the character from commonly used
you the establishing shot the very beginning. amongst other
and then the close up films so not to give
personal shot. away to much in
the opening few
minutes.

2. Camera Angle A lot of different films We don’t use that many There isn’t that
High, Low tend to use a lot of different camera angles many different films
different camera angles in our film apart from that don’t use that
in an attempt to portray the ones looking down much of a wide
one feeling or another on the pictures and this range of angles
about a certain scene is because once again and from the films
and or character and this we don’t want the that I have viewed
can be played out in a audience to have none of them does
number of different ways. perceived a certain and this stands our
view of the main film out from the
characters as we intend crowd.
to bring that in later
through the film.
Mise-en-Scene They would normally use We used quite a lot of Things like
more horror-based ideas Mise-en-scene for scream also use
like dangerous items and instance the hooded hooded clothing
knives and a lot of dark jumper used by the but once again it
and dingy scenes. main character is normally the
develops the norm
man that would
because it’s usually a
man in the hooded wear it.
jumper but we used a
girl.
Editing – jump cuts, They would use a lot of We didn’t use that There are some
match cuts, reverse jump cuts and maybe use many different cuts as slower edited
shots, cutting a quick cutting rhythm we used jump cuts a lot psychological
rhythm that adds to the because we where thrillers but most of
suspension of the film using two totally them are quick
different scenes and it paced to add
was to distinguish tension.
between the 2 sections
but at quite a slow
pace. This follows a lot
of the conventions but
challenges them in
some point to make it
slower because we
have a slower paced
film
Sound Low and tense music We used eerie and There aren’t really
with deep melodies. tense music as well as another religious
using a voice over at and eerie-based
the beginning and this music in
adds to the tension and psychological
with it being a biblical thrillers.
speech that the voice
over is saying it adds to

3. the idea of the religious
feel to it. And this
means that we
challenged it.
Narrative Theory There is normally one We also used the same The orphan uses
person in the film who is narrative theory and the idea of using a
the film who is seen as character profile for our young girl as the
the ‘bad’ person and one film or though we ‘baddy’ rather than
or more who are seen as changed it somewhat the other more
the ‘good’ people and its as it was a girl who was stereo typical
normally a conflict the ‘baddy’ and this is characters.
between the two of them. opposed to the
character normally
played by the male role.