Question 1
In what way does your media product use, develop or challange forms and conventions of real media products?
At the beginning of the film the audience is greeted with an establishing shot of the setting in our film.
As the actress runs towaards the center of the shot to create a mid-shot there is a loud non-diegetic sound of a horror scream. From this shot and use of sound it is clear to the audience that something bad is happening and the setting is an abandoned and quiet forest. The use of the abandoned forest is conventional of horror films and reinforces the horror genres cinematography connotations.~Thisa strange and enigma filled film opening creates a feeling of suspence and tention among the audience and also helps set the scene of the rest of the film to unfold. The dark ambient shadow effect used on the frame of the shots exposes the audience to a dark and sinister feeling. this feeling matches the narrative of the genre and is what we want to portaray to the audience.A title font is also shown in this shot in bold white writing it fades in and fades out of the actresses name (Mary Thompson) this follows codes and converntions of films and exposes a real and proffessional element to the production.
as the character continuse to fumble around and the suspence and mystery of what is going on deepens like most conventional horror films the clip appears to flash to another of the character in a different position in a sped up motion. This is used to give the audience a twisted and weird feeling. The shot quickly switiches back to the deamon in this film played by Leah Gathergood she appears to appear then dissapear asif she is an hallucination this effect develops forms and conventions of real media products as it is a good use of creating a suspence filled film effect thet conforms to horror conventions, the effect on the audience is to scare them so the question what is going on exposing the feeling that they are on the edge of their seats.
Another convention of the horror genre we have developed is the hallucination of the evil girl she is denoted as dark and sinsiter looking and appears at different parts of the opening sequence this creastes a tense mood among the viewers and follows conventions of horro films as it is dark and scary looking, some of the spead up andles and close up also suggest that this is a hallucination watching mary in the forrest and messing with her head send ing her crazy an errie and dark atmosphere is created.
Some uses of the costume in this film follows the structure of our narrative mary is wearing leggins a white flowing shirt and wellington boots, this out fit follows steryotypicall representations of the 'average woman' in today society. Leah clothing as the deamon connotes steryotypical dress of ' ther average woman' as that is what she is she just turned evil and so effects are added to make that relivant.
Many uses of different types of camer a work are denoted in this production such as shot reverse shot and quick fast paced editis and cuts.
Question 3
What media institutions may distribute our products and why?
Below, Mary has created a mind map which shows the companies we believe may distribute our product.
Mary also created a website which shows a variety of images that relate our product to the distribution. http://marythompson007.imgur.com/all/
