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

3. 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)

4. 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.
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