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

2. Narrative:
Throughout the process of planning our film, we
looked at different horror genre films, mood
sets, mise en scene and sounds used. I looked at
‘Insidous’ and ‘paranormal activity’ in which is
where films are set in creepy abandoned houses
where people are possessed.We wanted to base
our films on murder, like what takes place in
these films.

3. Genre:
We took a lot of time to plan our genre, and we had several options on which
we could chose from and why we would chose it. We had the option of
choosing either Horror or Comedy. We came to the final decision of Horror, as
we thought it was more effective and would be more achievable, as with
comedy not everyone has a similar sense of humor. Our film was planned to
be filmed within a woods, where we beileve it would be most effective. We
looked at films based in woods, such as ‘Cabin in the woods’ in which is
where we based our film in a creepy woods like the one used in that film.

4. Examples of Horror films:
Cabin in the woods, is a film in which
location wise was similar to our idea of a
film, As it is based within a woods, where it
is creepy and a stereotypical scary place for
anyone of any age.
The woman in black, was another
similar film to ours

5. Camera, Angle, Shot movement and
position.
We looked at shots and camera angles that are
used within a majority of horror films and the
ones we discovered were most popular were:
Zoom, Pan shot, Medium close up, Long shot
and Shallow focus.

6. Continuity and editing
We edited our film so it looked as much like a
horror film as was possible. We made the
tension span of the film more rapid and we
made the atmosphere creepier by using scary
sounds and music. The pace of the rhythm of
editing was implying the characters inequalities.
We emphasized the verisimilitude of sounds
such as the wind.

7. Sound
We looked at examples of sounds and music that is used throughout
horror films, and I liked the fact that some on which was scary, yet
silence can be more effective than music in some cases, therefore in our
film we chose to have some silent scenes, with diajectic and non diajectic
sounds appearing, and the verisimilitude of some sounds exaggerated.
http://soundbible.com/tags-horror-movie.html
Here is a link I used to listen to different sounds and music used, I got
a lot of sound and music ideas from this link as I believe it had some
very relevant and appropriate sounds we could actually use.

8. Mise en scene
We looked at different aspects of mise en scene
in which include: costumes, makeup and
props. I looked at what clothes are worn in
similar horror films, and I looked at clothing
used in ‘Cabin in the woods’.

9. Expressionism a dark atmosphere
The lighting we used was varied, as we wanted it to have
to create the scary tension. Therefore we chose to film in a woods, in the
middle of nowhere, using only spotlights, in which highlighted the
characters facial expressions, but still shows the creepy atmosphere. We
chose to use lighting where we could see face silhouette. The colours
used were a mixture of black and white and the daylight.

10. Typography
The settings we chose are a woods, and outside
a characters house. We chose these locations
as they are nearby, ideal and just how we
imagined they would look. We looked at films
like ‘Cabin in the woods’ to see how films
were shot, and how much time they spent
filming specific scenes.

11. Iconography
This is the scene where, the characters are
setting off from home, to go and visit the
woods and camp out over night, it is
daylight here and we thought it would be
the most ideal weather condition to use as
it is light and doesn’t represent any
particular danger.
This is a scene where we used darkness as
key. Darkness plays a large important part
within horror films as darkness is a lot of
peoples fears. The two colours contrast
well as they are both bold and bland. Black
represents death and white represents
confusion or unknown.