In what ways does your media product use develop of challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
A horror is an unsettling film, which is designed to frighten and panic the audience, as well as causing dread, and alarm, invoking everyone’s hidden and worst fears. Along with captivating the audience, entertaining them in a cathartic experience, often concluding in a terrifying shocking finale.
Horrors set out to create fear in their audiences, this can be through nightmares, the vulnerability of the viewer, revulsions, the terror of the unknown, a loss of identity, dear of sexuality and alienation.
There is always a lead character, that often results as the survivor in the film; the killer of the monster often has a trademark characteristics in the way that he kills or challenges the characters, for example the type of person that he kills or terrorizes, a weapon that he uses to kill them, or a way in which he plays with peoples minds. Horrors/ thrillers are usually good against evil, with two characters complicating. The outcome is the good person always survives, defeating the “bad guy”.
I personally don’t think that our film/ opening sequence does not challenge all of the conventions or a thriller/ horror; we have a main character, and a “villain” as such, who has his signature ways of tormenting his “victim”.
Narrative
Follows a plot
Goodwins theory
Camera angels
has a wide range of different shots, both close up and long shot, but to a point where you don’t know what is hiding around the corner, behind doors, or the camera (the shadow at the end) the use of hand held so that it looks like it is through the eyes of someone else, not being able to see the boys face to council his identity, camera angels of the pictures of the wall – panning around the room. Still shots from both a close up and long distance.
Continuity and editing;
the use of slowing shots down – why this was done; the darkness, the use of quick cuts,
Sound and music;
As individuals we researched into the type of music that we would be using for our opening, we thought that it would be best to look at the music that has been used for other openings of horror/thriller films, after looking at many different types, we decided that we would focus more on the music that was created for the remake of the Omen, and base the music that we would be making ourselves around this.
The music that we ,made for our opening does not challenge the forms and conventions of horror films as it sets the mood and creates an eerie feel, drawing in the audience.
Mise-en-scene / expression (lighting and colour)
darkness at the beginning; dullness through out the house, the shadow
Typography;
Iconography;
the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject;
Indexical/ iconic/ abstract signs;
the drawings that the young boy had done and put up on the wall, the teddy bears.
The children – the director and the codes and convetions that he uses – its not what you can see, its what you can see.
Codes and conventions of thriller films
Other films that are similar
