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Christopher Demetriou

In our horror film we have developed typical horror film conventions.

What we have done to develop them is:A man getting killed instead of the women as you can see in the far right. As you can see scream 4 and psycho the woman dies in the opening scene

The killer is not shown in our opening scene for our one (far right) but in Hannibal, psycho and scream they are shown.

We did this to bring variety and make it different from all the same conventions. By developing the conventions we have made it far more interesting and unexpected to the viewer making it more scary.

Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?Editing: In editing we broke the convention of not showing a weapon or how the

person died. Unlike Psycho. As you can see we don’t know how he has died.

We did this because we wanted to make it different and to create a sense of mystery making it more scary for the audience.

Camera shots: We used typical horror film conventions by showing a close up of the victims

face. This is also the same in Scream 4 and in Psycho. Thus us not developing the convention, mainly because it creates more horror to the viewer. This is done by making the stillness of the actors face creepy.

Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Sound:The sound we used doesn’t challenge forms and conventions but we have developed it by making it more up tempo and scary adding tension and fear into the viewer. This has been developed, as the others are also eerie. However different to ours as they haven’t got the same pace and beat, making our sound more scary then other horror films.Mise-en-scene: clothesThe clothes our actors were wearing are typical young people clothes comfterable but yet fashionable. Whereas in Psycho she wasn’t wearing any clothes, however this was distributed 50 years ago. Whereas Scream 4 was also aimed at the same target audience as us (young people) they have the same clothes as what we had in ours. Thus our film not challenging nor developing because we used a similar style of clothes.

Scream 4 Our film

Mise-en-scene: lightingWe used a mix of bright and dark light making it more scary and challenging

conventions, because in Psycho was just black and white, Hannibal was bright light. This suggests that in horror film in the opening scene horror films just tend to have one type of lighting throughout whereas we did a variety. Making it more different and scary

Mise-en-scene: LocationWe used a typical location by using a living room in a house which is used in a

lot of horror films. E.g. Scream, Psycho etc. We did not develop this convention, because we wanted it to seem like it can happen to anyone, making it more scary.

Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?