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Critical Evaluation Presentation

• Gracia blessing 5715
• Candidate No. 10508

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Question 1. In what way does your media
product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
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• Using conventions
• in

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Narrative

• Our film uses the typical convention on ending
  on a cliffhanger also known as the Enigma code
  used by Barthes. we did this because we did not
  know how to conclude Mr. Smith without leaving
  the audience in suspense and shock of what went
  wrong. furthermore Many horror thriller films
  always finish with a cliffhanger we have chosen
  to follow this convention.

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Mise En Scene
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Costume lighting

• Through out the film the lighting is often dark
  to correspond with that feel of the unknown of
  what's haunting or scaring Mr. Smith. We did this
  purposely to frighten the audience. Further more
  even Mr smith clothing is all black and dark
  colours however , we did this to let the audience
  have the choice of decided whether his the
  protagonist or the antagonist because the
  blackness could suggest fear or bravery. We
  decided to use these conventions because its
  commonly used in horror movies like the

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• Developing conventions
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Characterization

• Our opening scene hides the characters
  identify we do this through the use of camera
  shots. In many horror films the use of hiding the
  identity of a character suggests that he is the
  antagonist where as we have developed this idea
  and formed it to base our protagonist. The
  opening of doors begins with the audience unaware
  of the full description and features of the main
  character Mr. Smith furthermore this gives an
  eerie feeling that the audience are to expect the
  unknown. This method of narrative is also known
  as the enigma code where by Barthes believed that
  some films/movies often began with a mystery.
  Past movie productions that have followed Barthes
  theory is inception, where the main character
  Leonardo Dicaprio is on the beach and the
  audience are confused to why he is there or and
  what trouble he has gotten himself into?

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• Challenging conventions
• In

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Trailer

• Our trailer challenge the typical horror genre
  because it did not have any speech in the trailer
  as in the film the was barley any speech. We had
  to focus on getting the sound and music right so
  that it had a scary feel to it. the sound we used
  were from sounddog.com we used it to build
  suspense and ended it with a bang in the end to
  make the audience jump!

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Characterisation

• In our film the victim is a man. Usually in
  many horror films the victim tends to be a child
  or a woman our film challenges this convention
  because our victim is a middle aged man.

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