Evaluation: 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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

Our film does not really challenge horror/slasher genre, it sticks to the tried and tested conventions of horror movies. One of these conventions include darkness, this creates enigma by only allowing the audience to see exactly what we want. The characters that we used mostly stick to the normal conventions of the slasher/horror genre. We have a killer dressed in black clothing and a hood, this is used extensively throughout the genre, we use this to create Barthe's enigma code. He contrasts with the victim who seems relatively feminine in contrast to the usual male victims in the horror genre. The only way that our film challenges the normal conventions of a horror/slasher movie is in the way that our victim is male. Seeing a male victim in a slasher movie is unusual so here we are showing emergent ideology.

Our opening can be easily identified as it uses many of the conventions of a horror movie. The red bold text fading in and out of a black background is typical of a horror movie and is used extensively in the genre. The sinister sounding music over the credits is almost always used in horror movies, when not used it can create a sense of tension. A slow pace of editing is also used in out opening to create tension, this is typical of the horror genre. It then speeds up when the victim sees the murderer, this creates a sense of panic, fast paced editing is featured in almost every horror movie.

FINISHED. :)

This is our finished production. 

Some comments from our AS Media Focus Group:

Callum Moore: "I really like it. I think it's sufficiently spooky and really captures all the normal parts of a horror movie. I particularly liked the music."

Isaac Jeeves: " Agree with Callum, it's spooky, eerie, everything you want from a horror."




I believe we took into account our Focus Group's comments on the animatic. They felt that a longer time was needed and some unnecessary shots needed to be cut. We cut an intended two or three shots of POV shots around the house in order to be more direct in approach and we made the ending in more detail so the audience is left in little doubt as to what happens to the victim.

Filming updates

The emergency filming went well, everything was done on time and to a decent standard.

Filming updates

After editing what footage we had, we decided emergency filming was needed. That's another trip to Malvern then! We've decided to reshoot shots 4,5,6,10,12 and 17. All of these need re-filming because of lighting issues- we decided the lighting was too dark.

Filming updates

There was a piece of audio that we didn't want in the clip, so we then used Key point markers to extract the audio that wasn't needed.

This Screen shot shows us using Premier to extract certain shots of the clip and edit them to fit the films Story line.

Planning: Filming

We have filmed all the scenes that were on our storyboard, and we have edited them together. We may have to film a few more, or redo some that were previously filmed.

Location shots

Update: video camera and SLR camera

We have a video camera and an SLR camera booked for this weekend, this means that we should have all the images and video that we need to start editing on monday.