Media Coursework

1. How does your product use or
challenge conventions and how does
it represent social groups or issue.
Critical analysis question 1

2. Conventions: Titles & Idents
Often film openings begin with a production company ident and a
distribution company ident. Typically these are followed by the
titles, which often appear in a certain order, starting with the title of
the film and ending with the director. I followed the most
conventional aspects of film openings by showing two idents : a
distribution and film company. Conventionally the idents are placed
in this order. Secondly I continued to follow the conventions of a
feature film opening by placing my titles after my idents. Not only
this but my titles follow the conventional order, beginning with the
film title and ending with the director of the film.

3. Conventions: Character
Introduction
Often we are also introduced to a character or characters at the
beginning. It is also conventional for mystery to be created, this is
conventionally done by concealing specific pieces of information
from the audience. I chose to introduce my character by using a
close up of her face to establish who she is and what she looks
like.

4. Music conventions
• For my music I chose a song which was creepy,
instrumental and quiet so it is not the main focus for the
audience but gave a haunting atmosphere.
Shadowlands 4 - Breath by Kevin Mcleod

5. Inspiration 1:Hush
One film which helped me the most was the film “Hush” a
horror film about a deaf woman who is being stalked . As I
had a similar idea to the film, I decided to use the idea of a
girl preparing food in her kitchen.

6. Inspiration 2: The call
• My titles were inspired by the thriller the call. I liked the
font and the size used. I chose a small sans serif font in a
similar style to The Call I originally tried to replicate the
typing effect in premiere pro but I couldn’t due to its
continued crashing when I did.

7. Inspiration Titles

8. Character conventions
• In horror and thriller films females are often cast as the
victims. After seeing this common convention I decided to
cast the same for my film.
Scream -1996 The nun - 2018

9. Stereotypes
• In Horror and Thriller films the female victims are often
portrayed as beautiful but “dumb” and “helpless”. This is
done because this often helps the killer to trap and kill the
victim.
• For my film I chose to challenge this stereotype as I
decided to not to hint at my characters stupidity.
Scream Queens - 2015