Evaluation (1)

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

Our film is similar to Homeland and Se7en. It is similar to 'Se7en' because of the fast pace and switching between icons, for example in 'Se7en' it switches between images from everyday  lifestyles like fingers and note books, whereas our flicks through gravestones and everyday sights such as people and the night. We also developed this idea by having certain images that reappear for example a small cross, this lets the audience guess how the rest of the film will incorporate the cross. We also developed this idea by flicking between two images (an angel statue and a hand's reflection) but every time it flicks back to the angel the camera has zoomed in a little.


This picture shows our use of colour correction and also how our media production referres back to grave stones.



 

  Our film is also similar to 'Homeland' in the fact that they both use colour correction on images for example in 'Homeland' they use it on the little girl whereas we use it on grave stones, trees and people. This is good at creating and enigma code as it builds suspense and a sense of mystery because it can be hard to tell exactly what something is because it has no colour to it. Both opening title sequences use two different colour corrections, in our's it is red and purple but in 'Homeland' it is red and blue. We used red because it is a connotation of thrillers because it represents blood, whereas the two colours in 'Homeland' represents the police.
Our music can be compared to the music from 'Knowing' as in their opening sequence there is an eerie whispering sound which builds throughout the sequence, but in ours we have a crescendo of laughter instead, this shows we made it our own idea. We took the idea from 'Knowing' and made it our own  (changed whispering to laughter) because we felt it was really effective at building tension whilst being scary. Our laughter is matched with an ongoing sound of piano music playing, the sounds are contrapuntal as they don't match each other. One (the piano) is quite fast and innocent whereas the laughter has an evil edge to it when matched with the images on screen and it gives an horror effect.
  We also added our own slant through the music as we used a classical instrument (a piano) then added layers on top such as the laughter but then also different types of sounds like screeching for when the eye opens, or the use of parallel sounds- choir boy singing when there are pictures of the church. This is not a normal thing you would find on a thriller opening sequence, and this makes it our own.