1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
NOT IN ORDER OF SEQUENCE IN OPENER
Convention: A way in which something is usually done
Convention: A way in which something is usually done
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| Shutter Island |
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| Stairway scene
SHUTTER ISLAND
When I came up with this idea to the group of using a bird eye angle or a low angle of spiral stairs I approached this to the group after thinking about possible Psychological thrillers I had seen. Location I remembered seeing 'Shutter Island' and that the locations used in that film had a very dark, creepy, horror, feel of the atmosphere, thinking it would go well with the genre I said this to the group. We ended up finding abandoned stairs in a car park and tried both angles of from the top and bottom and decided to use this shot with my character running up them frantically, possibly away from someone. This location uses conventions of psychological thrillers by the way the setting is dark and the thrilling atmosphere it is in. It's used in a typical way. 2.   |
Above is various Thriller and Horror film title openers and we also have ours that we choose.
SE7EN
Titles, font and style
SE7EN
Titles, font and style
The titles for the owner of Se7en is very sketchy and quick, they flash on and off of the screen quickly, instantly giving you the feel of what type of film genre it is going to be. We wanted to base our film title off of Se7en and scrolled through trying to find a font which would work.
We found the font that we used on the iMac, it typically represents the thriller and horror genre that we were going for in our opener and is representative of Se7en by the sketchiness and see though parts of the font.
We named our film 'Paranoia' due to the fact the our character was essentially paranoid about something that would be revealed later in the film. the definition means : a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically worked into an organized system. It may be an aspect of chronic personality disorder, of drug abuse, or of a serious condition such as schizophrenia in which the person loses touch with reality.
This opens a huge door for our audience to speculate and wonder of what is going to happen next, also the way the title is placed in the opener, with the aerial shot gives the impression Amy's character is being followed. The sketchiness and see through parts of the font as well show the thriller genre and sketchy mindset of characters throughout.
This can lead to paranoia by her character as well as The main character charlie, also the way the other characters act in the underground can suggest paranoid behaviour. Which could be caused by any number of reasons.
We found the font that we used on the iMac, it typically represents the thriller and horror genre that we were going for in our opener and is representative of Se7en by the sketchiness and see though parts of the font.
We named our film 'Paranoia' due to the fact the our character was essentially paranoid about something that would be revealed later in the film. the definition means : a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically worked into an organized system. It may be an aspect of chronic personality disorder, of drug abuse, or of a serious condition such as schizophrenia in which the person loses touch with reality.
This opens a huge door for our audience to speculate and wonder of what is going to happen next, also the way the title is placed in the opener, with the aerial shot gives the impression Amy's character is being followed. The sketchiness and see through parts of the font as well show the thriller genre and sketchy mindset of characters throughout.
This can lead to paranoia by her character as well as The main character charlie, also the way the other characters act in the underground can suggest paranoid behaviour. Which could be caused by any number of reasons.
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| Gang meet up scene |
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| Dead mans shoes |
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| Harry Brown underpass scene |
Dead Mans Shoes
When filming we all agreed that we like the way Dead man's Shoes was directed in the way the scripts were overlapping an muddled, the opposite to standard hollywood acting of speaking and waiting for a response.
When filming we took ideas of the film and used it in the acting and how the characters were shown, we wanted to get a medium shot of all of them and include a close up on hand held to show the emotions and to feel like the audience were more present. We used the conventions of the characters from Dead man's, to represent our own and the shots of multiple characters at once.
Harry Brown
After filming we found a scene from a film called 'Harry Brown' which is also a births based gritty film which involves the same conventions we used in locations of urban cities as well as the characters and social groups of gangs. The underpass scene in this film really typically showed the same type of vibe as ours, and also used the lighting and characters as we used.
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Here in this scene we incorporated multiple aspects of films into one of our scenes which was really fun to do and edit.
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| Still travelling to the underground |
In this shot, we see Amy's character travelling into the underground and the transition between the light and darkness in the scene, which could represent her walking into the unknown and the danger that is about to happen.
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| In the corridor |
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| AHS |
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| Se7en |
SE7EN
Genre and colour
We took from Se7en the sepia type colour tone that was present in the fast paced opener, in ours it created an older effect adding to the genre we were looking for which was Thriller/Psychological Thriller and horror ish.
AHS
Looking into American Horror Story was super fun, there were multiple aspects we took out of there openers, teaser trailers and general scene which were really good to play around with and see what would work.
Composition and location
From the 'Hotel' series we took the composition of the corridor and the location of a narrow set where the camera would be centred and still, also the composition of the person that would be moving. Our character was generally centred and the wideness of the shot got in the floor and ceiling lights, this added the the Thriller genre mise-en-scene and was really effective with the editing we did after.
Editing
The editing in AHS is renowned and is a key feature throughout the series and especially in hyping up the trailers and teasers.
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AHS
In this scene very near the final of our opener, I think we use and develops from the conventions of Tv show 'American Horror Story', we decided as a group last minute in filming that we wanted to do an impressionable finale. Resulting in the trippy /jumpy horror scene in which the person has possibly taken the drugs or product they stole.
Special Effects This scene was influenced by the opening of AHS but was also adapted in the way we added extra's that may not be in the actual opener of AHS. We added the up close silhouette like shot of the person in the corridor.
We took from AHS the shots of things getting closer to the camera with suspenseful music, also managing to find a location in a car park with a very narrow corridor with the same stripes going down, creating an illusion. This worked well with our psychological aspect, by having a 'triply' scene it helped tie together the genre's and give the audience a final wow so they wanted to watch on.
The Jump cuts represent her mindset and give the audience the idea she has taken something.
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The editing in AHS is renowned and is a key feature throughout the series and especially in hyping up the trailers and teasers.
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| Tripping in the corridor |
AHS
In this scene very near the final of our opener, I think we use and develops from the conventions of Tv show 'American Horror Story', we decided as a group last minute in filming that we wanted to do an impressionable finale. Resulting in the trippy /jumpy horror scene in which the person has possibly taken the drugs or product they stole.
Special Effects This scene was influenced by the opening of AHS but was also adapted in the way we added extra's that may not be in the actual opener of AHS. We added the up close silhouette like shot of the person in the corridor.
We took from AHS the shots of things getting closer to the camera with suspenseful music, also managing to find a location in a car park with a very narrow corridor with the same stripes going down, creating an illusion. This worked well with our psychological aspect, by having a 'triply' scene it helped tie together the genre's and give the audience a final wow so they wanted to watch on.
The Jump cuts represent her mindset and give the audience the idea she has taken something.
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| Running scene |
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| Rocky |
I can''t get over how perfect this looks, we are matching :')))))
ROCKY II
Camera work and location
This scene is a lot like Rocky's in 'Rocky II' after we filmed it we saw it represented the same compositions and camera movements like in Rocky. The composition of the character running in and across the screen was basically exact to Rocky's and the same rule of thirds principle was used in the depth of the field of the background (just slightly different) and where the character was travelling to.
The location was a wide shot of the top of the car park we used, this showed buildings and lots of bristol in the depth that the viewers could look at.
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TWILIGHT
How characters are introduced and story of the opening
In the start of 'Twilight' the scene begins with Bella opening her eyes and we realised that this is very representative of our opening few seconds. In Twilight Bella opens her eyes and instantly the camera quickly shoots to the things around her and close ups to things in the room.
Instead with our opener when the eyes open of our Charlie, it instantly flips to a flashback of what happened before, this is different because the conventions of the genre are different to twilight. We need to make ours a clear Thriller genre so we added in a stair scene which showed the gritty dark atmosphere.
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SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
With the flashbacks we used we came up with the idea of having a flashing scene representing a possible torture moment the character remembered. Ideas from Slumdog Millionaire as well as Prison break were taken and we used the conventions of the story from Slumdog, that they're being forced into something they don't want to do.
This adds to the thriller convention as it makes people ask what happened and why has that happened, as it only appeared for a second it could be seen as a shock to the audience as to why they're in the coma. We used this scene in an unusual way as instead of it being a big part of the film like in Slumdog, its only used really quickly to give a glimpse of what has happened adding to the mystery.
The location was a wide shot of the top of the car park we used, this showed buildings and lots of bristol in the depth that the viewers could look at.
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| eye open shot |
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| Twilight opening eye shot |
How characters are introduced and story of the opening
In the start of 'Twilight' the scene begins with Bella opening her eyes and we realised that this is very representative of our opening few seconds. In Twilight Bella opens her eyes and instantly the camera quickly shoots to the things around her and close ups to things in the room.
Instead with our opener when the eyes open of our Charlie, it instantly flips to a flashback of what happened before, this is different because the conventions of the genre are different to twilight. We need to make ours a clear Thriller genre so we added in a stair scene which showed the gritty dark atmosphere.
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| Slumdog Millionaire |
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| torture scene |
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
With the flashbacks we used we came up with the idea of having a flashing scene representing a possible torture moment the character remembered. Ideas from Slumdog Millionaire as well as Prison break were taken and we used the conventions of the story from Slumdog, that they're being forced into something they don't want to do.
This adds to the thriller convention as it makes people ask what happened and why has that happened, as it only appeared for a second it could be seen as a shock to the audience as to why they're in the coma. We used this scene in an unusual way as instead of it being a big part of the film like in Slumdog, its only used really quickly to give a glimpse of what has happened adding to the mystery.
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