Beccas media slideshare
- 2. My media product follows some of the typical conventions of real media products, some of the typical conventions that i researched before filming were; having an intimidating villain, a vulnerable main character, abandoned houses, dark forests, high camera angles making the main character looks small and low camera angles making the villain look big, also high pitched dramatic intense music or eerie sound effects to create high tension and many other conventions.
- 3. My media product has a vulnerable main character which i created by the mise en scene of the product, i made her character have a costume which shows bare arms which made her more vulnerable also she i isolated her to create this convention. The sound in my media product is eerie and i wanted it to be the same soundtrack all the way through so its like we are following her as well as the feel of the music (the character growing in fear and the music growing in tension). Also i filmed the forest scenes where there wasnt much around so that the sounds of the main character were able to be heard so things like her heavy breathing and the snapping of the sticks were able to be picked up on by the audience.
- 4. Looking at the way my film was edited i used fades and black screens as transitions as i felt this made the film seem scary and the fades allowed the audience to not fully understand what happend to the girl. This doesnt challenge the conventions of real media products.
- 5. However my film does challenge the way real media products are filmed. My product instead of following the convention that high camera angles are used on the vulnerable character to make them look small and that low camera angles are made to make the villain look big i have challenged this and made this the other way round, when my main character Alex is running i placed the camera on the floor so we were looking up at her. I did this to reveal that the character thinks she is stronger and more powerful than the villain.
- 6. In conclusion with my media product i have tried to follow the normal conventions that would be expected from horror films, i didnt want to challange the conventions too much as i wanted to keep it traditional and i only challeged the convention that the camera angles and the way the film was filmed. I kept locations as expected a dark forest and an issolated train station.