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1. 1) In what ways does the media
product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions
of real media products?
By Lewis Brookes
2. • Continuity was observed thoroughly by us
both to ensure actions were matched and
overall increase the fluidity of the film.
After viewing many projects from other
colleges on YouTube we noticed films that
failed in some aspects of continuity and
thus having a negative impact on the film
and viewing pleasure; therefore motivating
us to ensure our film didn’t fail on the
same aspect.
3. • Using the HD camera we were able to take care with
continuity by making sure it was in the same format.
However, we came across the difficulty that part of the
filming was in a standard definition format rather than a
high definition format therefore we had to re-film the
entire scene. We came across complications such as
keeping the camera level and steady for over the
shoulder shots. Also match on action and reverse shot,
but careful planning and consideration allowed us to find
the appropriate camera positions which obeyed the 180
degree rule with these two shots.
4. • Within the editing phase we came across
other difficulties, such as the match on
action not entirely matching in different
shots. We overcame this by use of either
cross-cutting or editing that allowed for
continuity to be in place. An example is in
the film, the character Andrew kneels
down but in another shot he doesn’t kneel
down far enough, this was rectified by
simple editing.
5. • We also had to take notice of sound continuity, we hadn’t
paid as clear attention to begin with and there was often‘
crackling’ and background noises which interfered with
the continuity. However, through editing we managed to
solve this problem, replacing bad audio with audio that
worked. Also, there was originally noticeable changes in
audio i.e. soundtrack. This was easily solved by using
filters such as fades in and out, this made the transition
much more smooth and wasn’t too obvious. Also we cut
different shots in time with the beat of the audio in the
office scene to make the transition smooth.
6. • There were many ideas of a film originally, but we made
a joint decision to choose a thriller. However, we were
still left with a plot and whether we were going to choose
a hybrid of a thriller or a sub-genre of thriller. We
analysed many films and decided psychological thriller
would be best, therefore we researched what made a
psychological what it is. The dark mysterious character
was influenced by characters used in other films i.e. Jon
Doe from Se7en and Patrick Bateman from American
Psycho. I was interested to create a character similar to
Patrick Bateman after watching American Psycho and
seeing his characteristics. However, it was difficult to
replicate a character such as him in five minutes and
keep it original.
7. • We used elements such as Andrew not knowing
everything that was going on which is a common
convention of psychological thrillers and there
were other uses such as crime and murder.
However, to make it unique we gave Andrew a
characteristic of OCD and that he was being
drugged by his wife all along and that it was in
fact she who was committing the murders. We
used tension which is associated with thrillers to
give it an exciting edge and the narrative was
quite dark, but we used it minimally to ensure
the audience didn’t guess the twist in the end.
8. • We deliberately subverted expectations of the film; the
film was built up to imply that Andrew was the dominant
character and the killer; however we had a twist where
Maria was in fact the killer. We also gave a more bouncy
relaxed soundtrack, when Andrew is at work to play with
the genre s code and intentionally lower some tension
however we did this to show Andrew's frustration as the
music got louder and quicker, with close-ups of his
anger. Then we quickly built back up to the tension with
the second killing straight after to thrill and shock the
audience.
9. • We can apply Richard Dyer’s theory of entertainment
and Utopia to our film. Dyer explained that if your life is
not ideal then a film can take you away from this and
place you temporarily in‘ Utopia’. ‘Intensity’ is a feature of
this theory, in our film we use a build of tension and
action i.e. the killings and fast editing that creates an
intense atmosphere. If the audience feel that there life is
boring/mundane, watching our film will temporarily allow
them to feel excitement. Initially the audience may feel
contempt towards the character of Andrew and would
think he is perhaps sociopath, however once they find
out the truth of his character they may feel sympathy
towards him.
10. • Also the audience will get pleasure by scopophilia
meaning 'love of looking' by Laura Mulvey's pleasure and
narrative theory. Our audience will be interested to
discover someone else’s life from there perspective, in
particular Andrew's. To achieve this we created voice
over narration to give the audience a secret glimpse of
what goes off in his mind and allows them to interact
within his life. We are confident we have achieved this
with the different types of mise-en-scene presented such
as dark clouds and clothing, eerie music and dialogue, a
variation of shots with moody lighting and the shocking
suspense at the end of the film.
11. • Though we feel we have an original idea, it would be
false to suggest there were no influences from other
films. The voiceover for Andrew was influenced by the
character of Alex from The Clockwork Orange; we used
ideas/thoughts of Andrew that were comparative to the
character of Alex. There were techniques i.e. camera
techniques that were likely to have been subconsciously
influenced from many other films like Hide and Seek
(2005) with close-ups being the key to a psychological
thriller. The writing in the diary was influenced by the
opening credits of the Se7en, we felt that the jittery text
effects and writing made an effective title sequence and
so used elements from this film. However despite of
these challenging conventions we have developed our
own original ideas and used these to create a gripping
genre.
