Eval question 1 version 2
- 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
- 2. To establish the plot, the female character is introduced within the first thirty seconds of the film and is immediately shown as a strange character as she begins to follow the male character as soon as she sees him. This was done so the audience begin to question who she is immediately. We decided to place the title sequence within the opening of the film instead of before to build tension as during the two minutes certain shots cut sharply to a title, breaking away from the scene for a few seconds. To get some ideas about what goes into title sequences of this particular genre, I researched the psychological horror film ‘The Ward’. I thought the contrast in background and font colour worked well and so decided to use that for our title sequence. The sharpness of the font also worked well as it matched with the sharpness of the cuts that we would have in our film.
- 3. Again after analysing ‘The Ward’ I thought the sound used had a big impact on the title credits, making them seem more sinister. We incorporated a chilling dischordant piano piece that works effectively in transforming the would-be normal scene of the male character walking through the street to scene that now builds tension. During the opening of the film, in a scene with a deep focus shot we decided to incorporate a piece of music that we thought would add to the creepy atmosphere of the scene. Near the end of the two minutes a POV shot is shown from the female character’s perspective while a loud metallic sounds builds until it becomes sharply silent. Then the final title is shown reading ‘Jack’s Girl’. This was done to set an ominous atmosphere. Jack's Girl film
- 4. After researching popular films of the psychological thriller genre, I found that a deep focus was a very effective camera shot to use. It is used so that the audience can see something significant that a character cannot. For our film we used it in this scene: Here we see the female character standing dangerously close to the male character after being shown as quite far away in the previous shot. This makes the female character seem more disturbing because of how she appears in one place and then reappears in another. Although it was coincidental, the colour of the traffic light in this shot could symbolise the danger that the female character poses to the male as well as foreshadowing events that could happen in the rest of the film. Also the female character’s eyes are not in focus in this shot and the arrows are pointing to the male character, pointing in the same direction as where the female character is looking, as if clarifying to the audience that this is who the female character is looking at.