Evaluation (Forms & Conventions)

Question One

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and convention of real media products?

Our media product uses forms and conventions of real media products in various ways. An example of this is when it comes to sound, where we have a quiet soundtrack in order to set the tone for the following scenes, which would be a typical, serious, psychological thriller. This fits in well because a more light hearted soundtrack would not match the type of movie that we were attempting to produce. The aim of the soundtrack was to create a feeling of suspense as the audience view the movie. There was also a voice over, explaining part of the plot in order to help the audience understand some of what is going on.

The lighting in the film was somewhat bright, the aim of this was to disorientate the audience, as is the purpose of most psychological thrillers. If we had used a darker lighting setting, it would not have fitted well as our movie portrays a dream, which are often shown in media as bright and confusing.

The title sequences in our film were dark and slow, the purpose of this is to create suspense and tension as the audience wait for what happens next and the font was a dark colour, in order to further establish the tone, feeling and pace of the following movie.

During the title sequence we are introduced to a character, instantly posing a question into the minds of the viewers, for example 'Who is she? Where is she going?' and as our film does not reveal too much, the audience are still in suspense towards the end of the film as the character reaches a door and the voice over fades out.

Question Two

'How does your media represent particular social groups?'

In our film, there is not much representation of specific social groups as the only characters seen in the film are average, white teenagers. This means they cannot be placed in social groups such as emo, urban etc. For example in the film, 'Kidulthood', all the characters can be placed into the 'urban' social group.

However the character seen on screen is a female, which in turn could be used to portray the 'scared female' image, as she is seen to be frightened and running away.