In what ways does your media
product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My film has conformed to many media products, some examples
are: in thriller/horror opening two minutes, there were often actors name at
the beginning that he audience can see and recognise. Ours were extremely
effective as we made them out to be famous as they were along side the actors
faces. Some other conventions were those of the establishing shots at the
beginning of the film that allowed the audience to get a clear understanding of
the background of the characters and locations. This also helped the audience
to gains a relationship with the actors. With close up shots of the girls,
allows them to see the girls up close and personal. This is often shown in the
conventions of these kinds of films. One of the conventions of a
horror/thriller is often the use of crime such as guns, knives etc., this
proved to be extremely hard to achieve successfully, this therefore meant that
it didn’t look as dangerous as the real movies. Another problem with the film
was due to the different locations, often a convention is to have shots in main
cities such as London and New York, I found this hard to achieve due to money
and practicalities and therefore I could only shoot in surrey.
I believe my work was fairly experimental due to some of the
edgy shots and editing techniques I used. Due to some of the conventions being
conformed to, some aspects of the film were generic. Without doubt the film is
exiting and thrilling however if I was to improve I would make it more
experimental. Pierre Morel (the director of the three taken films) influenced
me to create a tension building film leading to a kidnaper. When moving into A2
I discovered that to make the film effective and suit the audiences needs, it
is important to conform to the conventions of the genre.
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