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

Thriller/Horror films often open with scenes in which it gets the audience asking questions and keep them in suspense by using techniques such as music building up in pace and sound. The locations often give the impression of the type/genre of the film.

Our film incorporated these techniques for example the location, we used a forest area which is traditional of most horror flicks. Like other horror films there is one character that is targeted out of the group. We used this to our advantage and had our character Chelsea be the target in our film.
Dialogue as well as sound/sound effects were used in the traditional horror way as the dialogue for our targeted character was scared, confused and desperate. Horror music was a must for our film opening, so we incorporated it into the tense and suspension parts of the opening.

Mise-en-Scene was also very important for the movie as we had clothing designated for specific characters. Lighting with the candles in the room was important to get the glare effect that we needed for the genre of our film. The time of day was also important as we scouted our areas during the day but filmed at night to get the full horror feel. As most horror films are in the dark we used it as the professional film industry would.

Just like the real media products we had used all different forms and conventions in our movie opening to create a horror film that would be easily recognised by anyone who were to view it. I believe that we developed upon our mistakes and have created a better product out of it.


Frame 1 of my chosen frame from our film, I chose this one because it shows a close up as well as lighting from the candle.
Frame 2 was chosen due to the expression on Kelbie's face since it showed concentration on her task (Summoning a demon). As well as the camera spinning on a Lazy Susan that we made.
Frame 3 was also due to the expression on my face as it showed what was happening on the scene.
Frame 4 was used as the POV was of the demon chasing Rebecca and I picked it since not many media products use POV shots.
Frame 5 was used to show the actual demon as well as the makeup work done by Rebecca.
Frame 6 was picked as it showed eye line match between the character and the object (bloody hand) that she was looking at.
Frame 7 was chosen since it showed the desperate expression on the characters face and the reflection of the phone screen.
Frame 8 was used to show the vision of the demon and the environment of the area where the scene was set.
Frame 9 was picked as it shows that her life is over and the battery on her phone is dead so there is no way of her to contact anyone. This is followed by the title "The Evoke".