The media product we created did use the conventions of real media products such as horror films but did develop and challenge these to suit the overall image we wanted to create for our film.
We used the simple media convention at the start of the film by using 'Paranoid Production' presents which is the production company we create which would produce and distribute our media product. This is always done in Hollywood as they are the most important people in the film, as without the production company the film could not have been made. Therefore they are shown at the beginning of the film to show they are the most important. Also it attracts people to the film, as the audience may have seen other films that the production company have made and enjoyed them and they hope that the film will be as much of a success.
After this we also used the simple media convention of using 'A Davina Thorne film' after the production company. This is to communicate to the audience who's idea the film was and who wrote it. This is important because as it was Davina's idea without her the film would not have been thought of, so if the film is a success or a failure it is down to her decisions. However, we challenged this idea by using a black background with white writing. We used this idea because we felt white on black is a very simple yet effective convention. The white writing stands out on the black background, which makes the words easier to read. I researched the opening title sequences films and this idea was not used in all the films I had come across. In 'Panic Room' the titles of the film are shown over different shots of a city skyline in typography.
We also used the media convention of an establishing shot at the beginning of the film. This is also used in the example of Panic Room. We used an establishing shot of the diary, to set the tone of the film as it is about the diary. However; we challenged this idea because in most media products such as Panic Room the establishing shot is of a landscape to show location. We did this because the location is not important in the film but the diary is the most important, therefore we thought it was more appropriate to begin with this.
This is to show the conventions we used of the set, lighting and properties in our film. We decided to use a brick wall as the backdrop to our scene, we also used low key lighting and used dolls, toys and pictures cut up and covered in blood. This develops the horror genre convention as stereotypically darkness, blood and mutilation.
We put up a burned and ripped picture of a doll's face on the back wall of our set. this was because doll's faces are stereotypically seen as terrifying for some human;s as it looks as if they are staring at just you. This develops the idea of the 'Chucky' doll in the film 'The seed of Chucky', a film about a killer doll.
We used the media convention of text in order to describe to the audience the mental state of the teenager in our film and to show that she thinks she has murdered other teenagers as it is written in blood. We wrote 'Kill' on the wall using masking tape and fake blood. Another media product that uses this idea is 'Gothika'. The writing in this film is used when a possessed woman kills her husband and this also shows the mental state of the woman and shows she has murdered her husband as it is written in his blood.
We developed the media convention of not showing what happened but hinting what may have happened to the audience. This is because an audience's imagination is much more graphic and realistic that what we could have shown in our sequence. 'The Blair Witch Project' uses this idea because the murders are not shown on screen but the film still creates tension and scares the audience because it lets them image what happened which is much more frightening than showing it on screen. We used this through the stool rocking and falling down and feet twitching. This communicates to the audience that she has hung herself but does not show her face which would not be realistic.
We used the convention of showing the title of the film at the end of the opening sequence. However, we challenged this convention by not using the same font as the credits before the sequence. Panic Room is an example of this; it uses the same font, size colour and background idea as the rest of the shots in the opening credits. We challenged this convention by using a more stylised, 'curly' font for 'Elizabeth's Diary'. We did this because we wanted the font to look as if Elizabeth had wrote it at the front of her diary, therefore we used an italic handwritten style font. We also used images used in the diary by making them opaque and putting them behind the text. We then made the text bigger to make it stand out about other text.
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