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Evaluation 1
1. How does my piece challenge or develop forms and conventions of real media products? Media Production Evaluation: Question 1
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4. As seen in… Arlington Road: The heavy blur and intense lighting create a mysterious unease around the walking character. Se7en: The solid foreground focus, heavy close up and intense background lighting gives the page turning a sinister edge.
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6. British horror film Creep is a prime example for the conventional use of stylised fonts. It uses a font similar to those found on London tube maps, fitting with the film’s theme. At certain points the font also includes the circular London Tube symbol. The Descent is another example of stylised font, it uses a font that is partially lit by a single light, fitting with the films themes of darkness and the unseen.
7. Our titles were in a conventional order, which we designated after researching the order in which titles are usually presented. We decided that we would develop the convention, though, by having the titles edited to the beat. The arrangement of the titles on screen varies throughout the sequence, as it was fitting with the mystery theme that runs through our piece. The titles were assigned to different areas depending on the light/dark areas of the screen and on the colour of the font itself. We felt as though the unpredictability of the title sequence in terms of title positioning and the varying image effects built around the core themes of mystery and confusion; conventionally title sequences manipulate signifiers within the image to convey the central themes of the film to the audience.
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9. The music we created and used was a heavy, droning, distorted piece. This style of music is one conventionally used for films of the horror/thriller genre, though to improve on this we added an extra layer of ambient sound, as it gave the piece a raw feel. We also had the volume of the beat slightly louder than the rest of the music in the piece, to allow for easier on-the-beat cutting. The film Se7en is a prime example of the use of conventional horror/thriller title sequence music
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