Final Task :Evaluation

How Does your media Product use,develop and challenge the codes and conventions of real media products?

The media product that we as a group have made fits the codes and conventions of a typical mystery film with some adaptions made so that it has a niche in the market for that genre as there are a lot of mystery films to compete with. We found from our research that our main product adopts some of these codes and conventions and so does our ancillary texts. The Ancillary texts are a poster which i have made which show the dark lighting which is a typical convention of the mystery genre. Also on the poster the main character is centered in the middle of the page aswell as a tagline and credits.

The ancillary text is recognisable as it contains shots that are in the opening sequence like the Title Linked and shots of the ghostly figure and of the main character. These images will be recognisable and if one is seen then they will be able to identify the film if they see the other. The setting and characters and lighting in the ancillary texts help portray the genre of the film to the audience and they will be able to identify if they are interested in the film or not. 

 

This is a frame showing our Main Title. We placed this title towards the end of the clip to make the audience wait for the big title. They have to keep watching the whole sequence just so they know the title of the film. The title is placed on a black background. We have noticed from our research that a lot of movies use this effect and we decided to replicate this for our opening sequence. We used this as the dark backround gives a great impact on the audience.This is the kind of effect we want to impact upon our target audience as the dark colours are used in a lot of mystery films and prove to be very effective at capturing the audiences full attention. This dark background for the titles is used in mystery films such as the Da Vinci code and Sherlock holmes. The dark backround also sets the atmosphere up for the film and the genre is clearly portrayed to the audience through the use of these dark colours that create a dark and sinister atmosphere. We have researched and used different codes and conventions which are important parts of setting up a mystery plotline.

This is the setting we used for our opening sequence. It is set in a estate as this represents the social class of the girl. It is shot in daylight as it is supposed to show a girl as she is walking home from school.

This frame shows the props that we used in the opening sequence. The props used in an opening sequence can give a lot away about the plot. The props used, which are pills, the significance of the girl taking the pills is that she is upset and depressed. she is also in her school uniform which represents that the reason for taking the overdose is linked to problems arising at school.

We used special effects in our opening sequence to create a different image of the stalker. These special effects help portray to the audience the character that is supposed to be from another world. This special effect is creating enigma, tension and suspence as the audience will be unsure of this characters role and why she is following the girl.

This is a shot of the opening sequence where we tried to use a creative type of camerawork.

The non – digetic music playing throughout our opening sequence definitely sets the mood for the rest of the movie. There are also some sound effects used in our opening sequence which stimulates the audiences’ senses. We used a banging sound for when Manny turns round at the beginning of the clip. We dicovered that the use of soundeffects is important in a opening sequence. We used these codes and conventions based on the opening sequence of the movie se7en.