In what ways does you're media product use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our film genre is a psychosocial thriller, we decided that this would be a good idea because as a group we enjoy watching this genre of films too. The narrative is based on the whole theme of 'stalking' and includes a character that has an unhealthy obsession due to a mental illness. After researching into the genre and watching films such as Scream that uses the theme of 'stalking' our minds where made up that this is what we wanted to use in out film. We established the plot by working together in a group, all coming up with ideas and sharing them with each other until the plot was somewhat of a mixture of all of our ideas.
The genre we used was thriller and the film is in my opinion quite obviously this genre as it consists of creepy thrilling music, fast paced actions and the feeling of mystery that the audience are left with, asking themselves 'what's going to happen next?' . My personal definition of 'thriller' is something that it is supposed to be scary and leave you in suspense, just without the gore, blood and full frontal violence that is used in horror. Overall I think our film is quite clearly a thriller, and I'm sure after watching it you would also agree due to the sinister music and other codes and conventions such as diegetic sounds like the creak of the shower door and the lighting of the torch flashing through the dark living room.
The camera angles we used consisted of close ups, mids shots, long shots, extreme close ups and others including low angled shots.
The continuity is there in my opinion even though some shots jump cut from one to the other, I still feel that overall the film runs smoothly. The pace is quite slow at first then it picks up when Beth runs away from her stalker Liam, this is done to emphasise that it is a thriller and hopefully get viewers connected to emphasise with Beth and show them what to expect from our thriller film 'Don't look behind you'. The sound in the film consists of diegetic noises such as the creaking of the shower door, the noise of Beth's phone ringing on the bed, and other various noises that go with our thriller theme. There was two different types of music used in our film, one diegetic music from the mobile phone ring tone and the other one the spookily thrilling music that was played whilst Beth ran away from the flashlight in the garden./ The mobile phone music would be diegetic, this is because Beth could hear it aswell as it was coming from inside the actual film, on the other hand Beth could not hear the music been played over the top of the filming so the creepy music would be non-diegetic as it was not coming from inside the actual film it was used and put in in the editing process.
Mise-ene-Scene is used in the film, to show that our film is a thriller. the lighting is quite dull and dismal, showing that there isn't something quite right and giving the viewers the feeling that something is terribly wrong, the props used are the bed, the mobile phone, the dressing gown, the flashlight. etc. Beth clothing consisted of casual clothing including, shorts T-shirt and an oversized denim jacket, to represent her as a typical teenage girl. Also another prop used would be the laptop which Beth is using when she is sitting on her bed, the laptop represents social networking and socialising, again, something that you would associate with a typical teenage girl. The location we used was Ashleigh's house, we wanted to make it as realistic as we possibly could therefore we thought a house would be the best location to film.
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