Evaluation Question 1

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

FlashPoint Pictures Company Ident

Like with the majority of films, our film also starts with our company idents, these are used to advertise the company that produce and distribute the films. Similarly we overlay film titles throughout the opening of the film which buffer the point more of who made the film. Our film titles are a white font which makes them stand out.


Instead of a scream queen in our film we have opted to develop conventions and go for a Scream King instead,  the scream king still has many aspects that the scream queen still has though. Such as typical blonde hair and going against the moral code. 


Location is very important in our film as well, we had researched a multitude of films previously for research on how to make the best film opening possible, we had looked at Saw and Wolf Creek in particular. we found wolf creek to be set like most horror films in a rural area which is what we chose for our outdoor scene, which is a snowy and enclosed alley. 


We further developed our camera angles to make our scream queen look weak, at the start of the film we used medium shots but when he was taken hostage we used high angled shots to make him look weak and vulnerable which is a common aspect of horror films.


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