Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Question 1) In what ways does you media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?



1) The shot of the CCTV sign on the metal fence shows that the place has high 
security, which suggests the people inside the place have been put in there for a reason because they are unstable or dangerous to society. this links to the film titles because the person wanted to escape.

2) The setting of this next shot shows that the girl is in some sort of high security place because you can see big metal framed doors and single small cell like rooms behind her. This location was not used very often in the opening of the film because it does not convey strong conventions of a horror film where as the rest of the film is filmed in a woods which shows more conventions of a horror film.

3) In this shot there is a telephone used as a prop for when the nurse character makes an important phone call. Also there in the background there is a computer and files to show the audience that the person making the phone call is in an office and therefore has authority and responsibility over the person who has escaped.

4) This shot is the escaped girls profile of why she is in the mental hospital it is an extreme close up of the file and the camera starts at the top and then scrolls down and the whole profile so that the audience can see how dangerous this girl really is as it scrolls over the 'status: HIGHLY DANGEROUS' part we created a still frame of it and added in the still frame as a flash as it is was going into the next shot to make the audience more aware of her behaviour and mental state.

5) For the titles we chose to have the titles over the shot of the nurse looking for the escaped girl because it was a long scene so the titles came in half way through to make is seem more interesting and not a long. also the titles faded away as the girl comes out of the trees and is walking across and we timed it so that it seemed that she is pushing the titles away.

6) This is an edited still frame of the girl who has escaped form the mental hospital, this still frame has been edited into the film to show the audience that she is possessed, evil and highly dangerous. This is edited into our film with a fast flash shot, so the audience see her looking normal then a sudden change then normal again this shows to the viewers that she is mental and also shows a convention of a horror film.

7) From this shot the genre of the film is shown clearly by the location, because it is in a woods and the woods is deserted this shows the genre because in a typical horror movie they are set in places of abandonment or isolation. Also the camerawork shows the genre of the film because in this shot is an 'over the shoulder shot' which shows the audience the girl about to sneak up behind the nurse and looking menacing and dangerous and with the nurse in front not seeing her or knowing she is there, the audience can see that something bad is going to happen because the nurse is in a vulnerable and dangerous situation which links to the genre of the film because it has the audience feeling fearful for the nurse.

8) In this shot the nurse is being strangled by the girl, this introduces to the audience more about the type of character the girl is because she is shown here killing someone so it also gives the audience an insight as to why she was in the mental hospital.

9) In this shot the special effects we added were a police siren which the girl hears and then turns and runs away. We added this is in because the police were looking for her because she had escaped from the hospital and so the film has a plot to carry on further with.

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