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.
There is a big section of this response missing because you haven't commented on your review, which is clearly incomplete. You need to sort this.
ReplyDeleteYou're not really addressing the question here - you need to start with your research. It's not enough to just say I have used this and this. You need to go back to your research and identify some of the key conventions you have used from the films you watched as part of your research. Again, as with the previous question, you need to screen shot the key aspects of the films where you identified key conventions. So for example, in Doll Face, you may have decided to use the idea from the film about the lighting. So you need to find the comments (analysis) you made on Doll Face and find the comments you made on the lighting and the key scene of the film. Screen shot your comments on the lighting and the scene from the film (this is of course if you carried out your research properly) and then screen shot the scene where you have then used this idea in your film, and make a comment about why you have decided to use this convention from Doll Face in your film and what it effects it helps to create.
It's the same principle with the poster. Go back to your research on posters, screen shot some evidence of your research and then screen shot your poster, and explain how you have made use of a feature from a research poster in your own work, and again explain why you have decided to use this feature and the effects you wanted to achieve.
This will be the same for your review.
You also need to comment on anything you used in the three texts that wasn't an existing convention - anything that you decided to do which was a bit different? Again, comment on why you decided to do this. The idea of course is that you are simply going back through your blog and finding evidence of all this in your research and drafting process. A lot of this work you should have already done - so it should just be a case of going back through and finding the relevant comments and copying and pasting it. You should have researched conventions in existing films and posters, and you should have made comments throughout the drafting response about which features you have used and why you have used them so you just need to go back through your blog and find them.
Again, as with the previous response, you need to use technologies and not simply write a hefty written response.