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review question 1- transcript

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

Film:

I used jump cuts in my movie to create an element of mystery behind the narrative, create panic, tension and overall hint to the films I have taken inspiration from. I aided my fast edits with my layered soundtrack to give my text an authentic look to audience.

Lighting was important in my cinematic style to create a supernatural feel to my film. in my film there was a scene where the lights were flickering on and off which created a dramatic scene as it makes it clear to the audience that there is something wrong. I used premier pro in order to create a filter that made lighter scenes look darker.

Due to my mysterious narrative reveal I felt that the speed, cuts and overall use of pace and tension were important in my film because without them I wouldn't be able to have this clear sense of flow and momentum which keeps the audience alert and guessing. I also used a range of techniques to show off angles, static shots and movement.

Usually horror films play to stereotypes heavily, however I felt that with my very realist angles it was important to use the conventional signs of danger such as change in lighting or switch to hand held camera so that the audience forget that they are watching a movie but rather feel like they are in the movie.

Poster:

A tagline is important to include to give my film poster something catchy that the audience will remember and associate my film with.

Having a large clear title is key to letting my audience know the key information for my film. My title is linked to my movie because the font hints out that its a paranormal film, as well as the word "innocent" which refers to the main character in this film.

Adding production credits to the bottom portion of my poster gave my poster a more professional look. The font I used for my credits was the conventional font used in all posters in all genre as it makes it look more realistic.

For my release date I just said coming soon because it makes the poster look more generalizable and whenever a person might look at the poster they wont look at the date which means they'll think about when it's going to be released.

The main image was something I wanted to use to show the colour scheme of red, black and white, which I was then able to carry over using the conventions of the total film colours to show a relationship between the two texts and subtly show a sense of synergy for audience recognition.

I challenged the colours that I used on my poster. I didn't want to stick to two block colours like most posters but instead I used more than two colours that went well together in fact it wasn't even noticeable that I used more colours because they merged together so well. The ray of light that I created enabled me to be able to use the different shades of colours because it made it look more realistic.

Review:

Most of the reviews I have researched on have mixed messages of whether the film is good or not, but this is just to advertise he film. By writing good and bad things you are trying to make the audience think that you're not biased. In my review I decided to do a negative review because I felt like my film had way too many cons than pros and it was just easier to write bad things about my movie because I was able to bring in a bit of humour so it's easier to engage in the audience. The layout of my review was more of the conventional look but that's only because I wanted the audience to know that it's a review as soon as they loo at it rather than trying to figure it out. I used key scenes from my film to write in the review and also put screenshots of them so that the audience could visualise. This again is a key convention of a review. I also had ratings and a horror-meter just to make the review look a bit more appealing. 

All of the final products

Review final draft

Review page draft ideas

These are the review drafts I made before I created my final review draft. I used these as a foundation or a template for my review page. I did implement some of the ideas but ended up changing how it actually looked. I used the review pages i researched more of a template than the ones i drew.

Review page analysis

official poster process

coming soon

draft 3 poster

Horror movie poster feedback

The images I took to use for the poster

I took all these images for the use of my poster. I took them without having a plan of what exactly I want on my poster, but by taking these it gave me an idea of what I don't want. The image I used was the second one because it was easier to manipulate it due to the good angle and lighting it was take from. I manipulated the image by cropping out half the face and changing the lighting, contrast, brightness etc...

Different types of fonts I considered using for my poster

I considered using all these fonts because they had a creepy look to it. how ever I ended up using the fifth one as the rest of them looked like they weren't from a paranormal film but instead from a slasher or an alien sub-genre of horror. Also for all my fonts but one I used the colour red as I wanted this colour to connote to danger, however I also attempted to change the title to white as the word "Innocent" in my film name suggests vulnerability and pureness.