1. Evaluation Question 1:
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
2. Sound/Music
This is a common convention used to create
various
emotional effects towards the audience. We also
used the convention by adding
non digetic sinister music at
fast pace at the start to
create an sinister effect, with this the protagonists
life is shown representing an overall image of it.
3. Camera Angles/ Camera Shots
Camera Angle: There’s one camera angle we used
which is high angle to show the protagonists friend
dead: this creates an effect of a vulnerable person and
powerless. Which a dead person actually is.
Camera Shots: Long -shot has also been used
when the protagonist leaves their house shows
you where they live. (Gives you an idea about
their living environment.)
Camera Shots: We used different shots according to matching scenes where it
creates the effect we wanted.
One of them is close up shot which shows prominent detail & facial expression of
a character as a means of creating intimacy and audience engagement with the
thoughts and emotions of the character.
In our product we show a dead person, a crying person & hands full of blood.
The close up shot has been also used in “Black Swan”, to
create a striking effect of the character. This is something
we also did in our product.
4. Characters:
You always have a protagonist who is deeply
affected by something and at first is lost,
unsure of what's happening. Plus they
often have other people with them i.e.
parent , friend, family who are also involved
in the same situation.
In our media product we used this convention and
decided that our protagonist will have 2 characters along
with themselves : A close friend who dies and a mother
who is injudicious making the protagonists life more
rough than it already is from losing a friend.
5. Typical Plot:
Nearly in all psychological thrillers you have similar plots which is: either
the protagonist is haunted/ being followed by something or they see
someone dead, additionally no one around them wants to believe it,
which possible makes them depressed because of that they’re going
mad themselves. A lot of the times it’s to do with supernatural.
In our media product we decided to use both kind of plots , so the
protagonist has lost someone and starts seeing this dead person and feels
as if they’re haunted. Along with it the protagonist have a mother who
smokes and is an alcoholic , behaves careless towards her, is negligent to
her. This adds to the part of the plot where no one understands or
believes the protagonists issue.
This is similar to the plot in “the invisible”
where it also has to do with someone’s
death of a teenager.
