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

2. To establish the plot, the female character is introduced within the
first thirty seconds of the film and is immediately shown as a
strange character as she begins to follow the male character as
soon as she sees him. This was done so the audience begin to
question who she is immediately. We decided to place the title
sequence within the opening of the film instead of before to build
tension as during the two minutes certain shots cut sharply to a
title, breaking away from the scene for a few seconds.
To get some ideas about what goes into title sequences of this
particular genre, I researched the psychological horror film ‘The
Ward’. I thought the contrast in background and font colour worked
well and so decided to use that for our title sequence. The
sharpness of the font also worked well as it matched with the
sharpness of the cuts that we would have in our film.

3. Again after analysing ‘The Ward’ I thought the sound used
had a big impact on the title credits, making them seem
more sinister. We incorporated a chilling dischordant piano
piece that works effectively in transforming the would-be
normal scene of the male character walking through the
street to scene that now builds tension.
During the opening of the film,
in a scene with a deep focus
shot we decided to incorporate
a piece of music that we thought
would add to the creepy
atmosphere of the scene.
Near the end of the two minutes a POV shot is shown
from the female character’s perspective while a loud
metallic sounds builds until it becomes sharply silent.
Then the final title is shown reading ‘Jack’s Girl’. This
was done to set an ominous atmosphere.
Jack's Girl film

4. After researching popular films of the
psychological thriller genre, I found
that a deep focus was a very effective
camera shot to use. It is used so that
the audience can see something
significant that a character cannot.
For our film we used it in this scene:
Here we see the female character standing dangerously close to the
male character after being shown as quite far away in the previous
shot. This makes the female character seem more disturbing because
of how she appears in one place and then reappears in another.
Although it was coincidental, the colour of the traffic light in this shot
could symbolise the danger that the female character poses to the
male as well as foreshadowing events that could happen in the rest of
the film. Also the female character’s eyes are not in focus in this shot
and the arrows are pointing to the male character, pointing in the same
direction as where the female character is looking, as if clarifying to the
audience that this is who the female character is looking at.