Evaluation 1 blog
- 1. Evaluation 1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
- 2. Thriller Conventions The main conventions of a thriller: Suspense Tension Excitement As well combined with Uncertainty Anticipation Surprise Terror To keep the audience on the edge, and always one step behind.
- 3. The slow pace of our thriller sequence enables to pursue our initial idea of character development. Our film begins with dark, low key lighting. This creates a gloomy and mysterious atmosphere which fits in with the genre of our sequence, creating pathetic fallacy.
- 4. Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd - Tim Burton, whose work is known to be eccentric and gothic based, was a huge inspiration to our piece. As well as this, the representation of women and sexuality within this time period were also an inspiration. The dark green colors represent raw nature and decay which generates a negative psychological interpretation of the character.
- 5. Innocence Our thriller is inspired by the main forms and conventions that are shown throughout Sweeney Todd.
- 6. Mise En Scene We wanted to use dark green, earth orientated colours to represent our ideas of decay. We shot our thriller outside in a forest and swamp like location, where there was decaying boat. As well as this our character was dressed in a dark green and brown dress to symbolize her decomposition.
- 7. Camera Work Our character was shown in many different angles, but the most important one was when she was being looked down on by a man who had spotted her. Our main purpose of this was to show her as a lonely female who is fearful of the more dominant gender, who at the time was the man. The full body shots of our character where to show how she would have been seen as a sex symbol in those days. Even though she seems modestly dressed, the close up shots of the bruising on her face reveal otherwise to the audience.
- 8. Sound Nero-Innocence The non diegetic choice of music we decided to add to our piece was often questioned. It is has a very dreary and sinister dubstep beat with the a constant repetition of the lyrics ‘Innocence, you’ll never be mine...’.The main intention of using this music was to bring in a harsh and creepy feel which would fit with the old setting but, when mixed with modern day music, further helped us to combine the two sub genres we were using. These were a 1900’s gothic literature incorporated with a modern and edgy theme.
- 9. Editing We used jump cuts throughout our film to show the audience something they are unaware of. This was the scene in the bath which then cut back to the main location. We did this to make the audience aware that something else was going on which encouraged them to ask questions. This idea is often used in thrillers as it makes the audience have a constant focus, as they don’t want to miss anything.