Evaluation-1

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

The title of our film is 'Distorted' This is to show the distortion of the little girl in the film and to make the audience aware of what sort of events may occur through out the film, as you can see, the title appears on the last stage of the clip then onto a plain black backgroung, to make it stand out to the audience. We thought that this title would fit in well with our theme of 'horror'. We used a bright colour over a plain black background for the end where we see the title of the film so that it clearly stands out to the audience before they carry on to watch the rest of the film. Also, the colour red represents the blood and gore within the film, fitting in with the conventions of horror as it contains much gore, blood, anger and death, just as our film does. 

Shots 1, 4, 5, 7 and 9 show the setting of the forest area and gives a clear view of the costume we used for this scene. Shots 3, 6 and 8 show the other setting we used which was the church stairs. This shows some more of the costumes we used and the inclosed space we had to work with in order to gain the right footage. This made it difficult to use any props or a tripod to help with the filiming. This also wouldn't work as we had to move the camera round the sairs as I walked down them, so a tripod would have been a struggle and unnecessary.

We used 2 different locations in order to create our opening scene.
1- The church
2- The forest area
Both of these settings were successful in gaining a dark, creepy atmosphere to create suspense within the audience, however, we found the scenes in the church scene to be a little too dark when we actually put the footage onto the disc. We maybe should have chosen a more brighter setting to film our scenes of the little girl. Although, when we decided on the location of the church and after overcoming the lighting problem on Premier elements we felt that it created a very successful location to fit the conventions of our 'horror' theme and made it feel extremely tense, creepy and have a sense of fear of the 'unknown'.

For our opening scene we had to use a variation of costumes and props. For example we used:
A white dress (torn and customized)
Fake blood
A big coat (torn and customized)
Make-up and face paint
We used these props to the best of our advantage in order to gain the real conventions of a 'horror' themed film. We used these props to gain effective characters for our film to make sure they had an effect over the audience and to create tension and fear to fit our genre.

Our camera use was successful as we did not want a straight, normal view, we wanted to make the film feel 'Distorted' so that the audience felt tense and didn't know what to expect from the strange angles and camera use. Also fitting in with the conventions of our genre, although, may not be the most conventional use of camera.
We decided to use a cluse-up shot of one of the main characters (the little girl) in order to make her feel distinguished to the character and to get feel as though she is in the room with the audience and communicating with them. It also helps to indicate the emotion of the main character to the audience so that they have a better understanding of the girls 'Distorted' nature.

To complete the editing of our opening scene we used Premier elements 7.0, we used this as best as we could to gain the most effective editing to fit in with our genre. We made it skip from scenes very quickly which made it uncomfortable for the audience making them on edge. which is what we wanted. We made sure that the video however, ran smoothly but still conveyed distortion throughout.

The genre we decided upon for our film was 'horror'. The features we used in our project reflect this genre successfully as it contained gore, blood, frightening events, suspense, fear and disturbing images. We gained this through using diferent and eriee locations, creating creepy/horrific characters and flickering scenes and strange camera angles.

Characters are introduced through out the first scene, but the audience are unaware of who they are in the story as our opening scene is a falshback to the grousome events wiithin the film. So, this does successfully conduct the conventions of our chosen genre 'Horror' as it flashes between unknown, gory details of future events to come in the film.

We feel as though we have fullfilled the typical conventions of a 'horror' film meaning that we were successful in developing a clip with the real conventions of 'horror'. Therefore the audience can relate our film with already exsisting films of this genre.