In what ways does your media
product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
my media product uses and
develops the typical convention of a thriller. For inspiration we watched a
film of the same genre "SCREAM" which was targeted at the same
audience and followed the same narrative. From this film our product had
developed forms and conventions of a thriller film. We used camera shots to
create tension and build up suspense, this allowed the audience to feel more
involved in the film. Some of the shots we used were also used in the movie we mimicked
this to help build up even more tension e.g. the crab shot was used at the beginning
to make an eerie environment.
we challenged the form that
victims are mostly young white blonde girls we used a black Muslim girl
instead, we added humour in the middle to put the audience at ease before
getting to the actual murder and for them acknowledge our decision for a
different feature.
Our film embodies certain groups
in society so that audience won’t feel like the film is made for certain types
of people. Using a female as the victim is on the foundation of typical
characters in thrillers; however we contrasted this by adding a male because
our group was made of only girls. The fact our opening was to cater to the
thriller genre, it was hard to understand if all types of the audience would
like this certain genre of film. We believed an all-girl group would shed some
light on our understanding of a thriller minus the stigma of thrillers being
When debating the type of media
institution that we would like to distribute our film, we wanted Colombia
Pictures as they cater more to 15+ films. Other institutes such as Disney or
Paramount Pictures have often been known for child films, if they produced a
thriller film there might be difficulties with how earnestly the film might be
taken. We also saw our film being promoted through newspapers, trailers to
other films, TV and websites like YouTube or Facebook. This allows everyone to
see the campaigns, as the film is seen as viral.
The target audience for this film
is 15+. We understood the appearance involved with thrillers involving male
adults; nevertheless we debated the opinion that it usually depends on the
likes and hate of the persons in the audience. So we decided not to group the
aim audience as a whole.
In the process of constructing
our media product we found that technology has developed massively and as a
result films have become better quality and audiences are able to engange even
more than ever .
Going back on our preliminary
task we can see that we developed more knowledge on how to make a film. If we
never learnt the thriller conventions including the theories of Todorov and
Propp we wouldn’t have had any idea on how to do this task. The camera shots
were quite easy because they allowed us to see them in angles that were easily
understood to us. On the other hand our group never realised the many features
of the film so it led to us to discuss this after acknowledging the actors,
location, sound, roles and responsibilities.
