1. In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products? (i.e.
of film openings)
By Linda Scaramella
4. Female conventions
• Girls characters are weak and superficial this could lead to the
audience not finding personal identity in the character. They are not
developed and are quite flat characters this can sometimes be shown
in many horror to make room for the male hero's development.
5. Child conventions
• Haunted child is a convention used a lot in more recent movies e.g.
Exoricist, Women in Black 1 & 2, Sinister and the Conjuring 2.
6. Narrative & Film convention
• Goes and Investigates the noise, which is basically horror film
reasoning (horror film ideology) (The male is deemed stronger than
the females so he is the one who is sent)
• The use of Jump-scares are a commonly used technique scare the
audience and keep them eager to keep watching otherwise know as
thrill seeking.
• Sound motif of child laughter adds the element of creepiness
• Music is used to build the suspension slowly to it creasando where
conventionally the jump scare is placed
• Narrative arch of a new house (not knowing the history behind it)
9. Challenging conventions
• Women are not shown to be vulnerable or the victim e.g. get stabbed
• And it sees the male that ‘dies’ first (can be perceived therefore that
he is the weak one)
• Since Scream we have a death in the first scene to foreshadow the
level of death in the rest of the movie. We kind of do is only we don't
see how he dies or what happen to the body; using the power of
suggestion.
