In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of

real media products?

My product’s use, development and challenging of forms and conventions

Our titling is very arranged and has purposeful order. All of our titling is presented in block capitals, this is an antithesis to many other psychological thrillers. For example Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’, which starts with a non-linear structure. Our product challenges this, as unlike many other films which share the genre; we’ve started in a linear motion to capture the disequilibrium. Which is later amplified by the arrival of our tense, edgy music, and the finishing piece of titling saying ‘The Cut’ which captures the fragmented and distorted atmosphere and personality of our kidnapper. This use of titling, albeit in a linear manner, was also used in the film Se7en. We also used a lot of panning, which is seen in M. Night Shyamalan’s, ‘The Sixth Sense’ and David Fincher’s, ‘Panic Room’. Also we did not have the equipment to perform a dolly shot, so instead we used a tracking shot to almost stalk our protagonist which caused and intrusive and uneasy effect.

‘Se7en’ Opening Credits ‘The Cut’ Opening Credits

(The similarity within psychological thrillers highlighted here)

We paid fine attention to detail when considering costume and mise en scene, to fulfill and portray our film to its fullest capacity. The ECU aimed at the girls hand, showing chipped nail varnish signifies that she is a normal day-to-day girl. The objective behind this was to suggest to the audience that this could happen to any one of them, create further tension and a element of vulnerability. This vulnerability also coincides with that of our protagonist, who's own vulnerability is magnified through our use of close ups which appear very invasive.

(ECU in Se7en used to capture elements of th

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protagonists perso

nality, and again cause tension and

unease within the audience.)

<<<The pot boiling over in the kitchen is used as a metaphor (as explained in my Titling Reasoning, ‘Homepage and Research’). This close up is also resembling of the close ups in ‘Se7en’; which also contain there own metaphorical meanings. E.g. the protagonist: self-harming and preventing finger prints from being traced.