AS Media presentation for Evaluation Question 1

1. In what ways does your production
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real fiction films in
your chosen genre?
Evaluation Question 1

2. Genre
My chosen genre is Horror, there are two
different directions that I could’ve taken, when
making my film. Either supernatural including
ghosts and mystery or a classic gruesome
including blood etc.
For my film, I chose supernatural, as I find these
films can build up more tension and suspense,
and I liked this idea.

3. Supernatural films include:
• Insidious (2010)
• The conjuring (2013)
• Paranormal activity (2007)

4. My Film…
My film consists of a young girl (Scarlett) who is the
first character we see, and she is playing a game,
this is typical and predictable to have a young
character in a supernatural film as demonstrated in
Orphan and Insidious.
However to differ my film from other classic Horror
films the little girl isn’t the antagonist, which could
come across as surprising to the audience, despite
this, it brings more mystery to the opening
sequence and entices the audience, making them
want to carry on watching.

5. How my opening sequence sets out
the rest of the film
My opening sequence sets out the rest of the
film, as it ends on a cliff-hanger. The scene is left
with the Father looking worried and concerned
about the fact that his daughter is seeing a
ghost. This sets the audience up for the rest of
the film as they are left wandering why the little
girl is seeing the ghost, but the Father is not, and
what actually happened to the Babysitter, and
most importantly why is she back in the little
girls life?

6. Title
Choosing the title for my film wasn’t too difficult for
me. I had two different ideas in mind, so I went
back and looked at Horror film titles. I found that I
liked the titles which start with ‘The’ at the
beginning such as ‘The Conjuring’ due to the fact
that I feel it makes the film look more serious in
comparison to if it just said ‘Unknown Truth’. My
title adds tension to my film, as it leaves the
audience wandering what the ‘truth’ was and why it
is ‘unknown’. This is one of the reasons I chose to
make my title ‘The Unknown Truth’.

7. Sound
Sound was an important factor in my film, as I used
two different sound tracks adding in through
editing, this was non-diegetic sounds. In many
Horror films (especially supernatural) they have
low-tone music which builds up as the scene
passes. They have this so the tension is increased
and the audience will feel a thrill or jump at the
correct part. I have used the skills I have learned in
editing and applied a similar concept, whereby my
music is low-tone and builds up at the correct parts.