Question 1

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

Our plot has a non-linear timeline due to the fact it starts with a flashback/dream and then goes into the films main story. We showed the films main event before we displayed credits, this was because wanted to put the viewer straight into action and grab their attention quickly and also make them feel confused and shocked about the situation they are being shown.

Our film looks like our genre in the sense that our storyline tries to make the audience solve a problem that the main character has, we also tried to make a victim out of our protagonist and make the audience feel empathy for them. In terms of cinematography we added dark filters onto shots to make them more sinister and also tried to keep our set design grey and towards the darker end of the scale.

The camera angles we used attempted to look down on our characters and show them as weak and powerless.

We used few tracking shots in our film due to the fact we wanted to give the effect of somebody stalking our main character.

The editing of our film was done to keep continuity but we have one location cut around 1:20 without using any fades or transitions, this was done in an attempt to surprise our audience, we also increase the volume at this point. We kept the pace of our shots to a high rate and tried to use many different angles in the flash back part of the film to cause confusion. The verisimilitude is questionable due to the large amounts of white out transitions we use at the beginning of the film but this wasn’t a problem, as we wanted to give off a surreal look to the dream so I believe we met our target.

The music at the start of our film was used to demonstrate the age of our characters and make it clear they where of a young age. After this point most of our films sound is natural and the only editing we do on it is cross fades as well as sound bridges at some points.

Costumes in our film mainly consisted of normal clothes young people would wear for a party and then pyjama type clothes once our actor wakes up. Our main props where fake blood and also icing sugar that we used as mock cocaine.

The film was shot in two locations, the first was a house where we filmed in the bathroom and bedroom, and the second was at Barnsley College.

For the films titles we had to add a shadow to the white font so it would stand out more, this made our titles easy to see whilst keeping them bold and modern.

Some visual conventions of our genre that featured in our film are; drugs, death and also paranoia.