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

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
For the beginning of our 2 minute film we wanted to make it dark and grungy like many thriller/horror films to show the audience what type of film they were about to watch. The typography we use for the production and film name is white writing on a black background so the words stand out. We also use white writing for other title throughout the film.


We did the title sequence black as the colour fits in with the beginning of the scene as it is a dark grungy scene.




We also interperated our titles into our film, just like in the thriller film Insidious. They say who the film is done by and then the screen begins to turn with the words dissolving into a light in the screen.
 We put visual effects of the title sequence on objects in the background and dissolved the letters as Ellie ran past them.

We use non-digetic sound for the first seconds of the film when the titles appear. The type of music we use is eerie and creates suspense, the music begins to get quieter going silent to hear the dialogue of the actors. This is to create a sense of reality of the two girls talking to eachother. As the chase scene begins the original music plays loud to cut out the noise of traffic. As the chase comes to the climax the music gets faster and louder to make the audience feel like the chase is fast and coming to an end.

The beginning of the title sequence begins with a medium close-up of the girl in a basement which goes against the traditional way of an opening sequence as a wide shot or pan is used to show the audience where the film is set. We decided to go again the normal features of films to keep the information of where she is secret.
We chose to put the title of the film 'Forest of the Wanted' after the first scene and before the second as we felt it made more sense as she is about to enter a forest. The second scene flashes back to how she got into this situation so it is non-linear. We do this to keep the audience guessing why she is there and what happened to her and so that the plot unravels as it goes on.
The editing of thriller film is fast paced particularly on the chase seen as this is usual in thriller films for example a fast paced edit of a thriller film is taken 2. This pace of edit keeps the audience engaged wondering if they will catch her.

This is a good example of a fast paced edit.

We use iconography feautures of  a thriller film of the victim being a girl as a girl is typically seen as being weak. To back up her sense of weakness is when a low shot is used of the kidnapper looking down on her to show her superiority over Daisy.
However we do go against the 'norm' of thriller films as the kidnapper is a small female which is normally seen as a harmless girl as in typical thriller genres the 'bad guy' is a big, strong male. We use mise-en-scene to show she is suspicous as she puts her hood up when following Daisy.