Research on Question 1. Conventions

Question 1. Conventions

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

 

Conventions – is a typical or traditional in your media product also known as a standard procedure.

   

·      Audience

·      Expectations

·      Genre

·      Narrative 

Film elements	Conventions	Used/challenge	Explanation
Narrative	Our film uses the typical convention on ending on a cliffhanger.	USE	Many horror thriller films always finish with a cliffhanger or the unknown will have followed this convention.
Characterisation	Our opening scene hides the characters identify we do this through the use of camera shots.	DEVELOP	In many horror films the use of hiding the character suggests that he is the antagonist where as we have developed this idea and formed it to base our protagonist.
Characterisation	In our film the victim is a man.	CHALLENGE	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.

 

Opening Scene

What is narrative?

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? 

Our reason for this chosen method instead of others like Torodov's theory of Equilibrium - Disequilibrium - Equilibrium  or Strauss theory of binary opposition is because we wanted our audience to think for themselves as active audience and not to give the whole plot/story away in the first opening scene.

Exposition – rising action – climax – falling action – resolution