Evaluation

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our product is recognisable as being within the horror genre. For example the use of close ups to create tension.

HANNA PICTURE -
We used this idea of a mid to long panning shot to establish the setting and create tension as we saw this was done in Hanna and Attack the Block. We felt this was part of the conventions of how a horror begins.
Our film starts with a sound track of natural diegetic noises such as traffic and the waves crashing against the shore. This was to create a sense of normality and some tension as it is always a little eeire when it is so quiet. Hanna starts in the same way, using just natural sounds.
We developed the conventions by mixing up some genres instead of sticking to just Horror, we decided to mix it in with Urban Realism similar to Attack the Block, which is a hybrid of Sci-Fi/Thriller/Realism.
Our film was influenced by "London to Brighton" which develops the horror genre by showing horrific situations in a very ordinary setting. The idea that horrible things can happen in normal surroundings is more horrible than films like the recent The Devil Inside, which is harded to believe as its not part of normal life to discover someone possesed by the devil.
We stuck to the conventions of horror in which the females are victims and also that the ending often shows the victim overcoming the horror.

PICTURE OF OUR TITLE SCREENOur title sequences stuck to the conventions of horror, like Hanna we used a shocking, fast shot of our title. We used the colours black and red, the same as Hanna to create a tense atmosphere.