Media final evaluation Q1
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This document discusses how the media product challenges conventions of real thrillers in its setting, editing, and font choices. The setting of a park is brighter than the typical dark and ominous thriller setting. Jump cuts and editing techniques were used to portray confusion and stress. The simple font for the title gets straight to the point rather than being distracting, differing from more blocky thriller fonts.
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Codes & conventions
Thriller films aim to keep audiences on the edge of their seats through anticipation and suspense. Low-key lighting, shadows, mirrors, and flashbacks are used to build tension, mystery, and guide audience attention. Sound effects and diegetic/non-diegetic sounds add atmosphere and meaning. Black and white can set time periods and accentuate dark, eerie tones through shadows and suspense. These techniques reveal character traits, create uncertainty, and intrigue audiences to satisfy their curiosity.
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Culminating Project
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Initial poster planning
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MISE EN SCENE
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How effective...
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Black swan
The Black Swan film poster uses a stark white color that has been switched to give the woman depicted a death-like image, representing the rawness of the movie. It shows a beautiful young woman covered in a darkness, referring to how she must transform herself for the role of the black swan that comes to dominate her life in the film, as suggested by her face as the main focus of the poster.
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Thriller films aim to keep audiences on the edge of their seats through anticipation and suspense. Low-key lighting, shadows, mirrors, and flashbacks are used to build tension, mystery, and guide audience attention. Sound effects and diegetic/non-diegetic sounds add atmosphere and meaning. Black and white can set time periods and accentuate dark, eerie tones through shadows and suspense. These techniques reveal character traits, create uncertainty, and intrigue audiences to satisfy their curiosity.
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Evaluation question 1
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Evaluation question 1
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Evaluation Question 5
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Evaluation Question 6
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Evaluation Question 3
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Media
This document summarizes a student's media evaluation project creating a thriller film. It discusses design choices like using a sole female character to create vulnerability. Inspiration was drawn from thrillers like Silence of the Lambs depicting lone women. Effects and music were added in editing to build suspense. Research found revealing little in openings attracts audiences. The filmmakers learned premiere pro skills and handling equipment challenges like train noise interference.
Restrained Evaluation
The document discusses how the media product uses, develops, and challenges conventions of real thriller/horror media products. It summarizes how the group used conventions like point-of-view shots and close-ups to build suspense, but challenged conventions like typical editing techniques and inclusion of titles in red text. Inspiration was drawn from other media works like "Seven" and "Silence of the Lambs" regarding shots, music, and settings. The social groups of the vulnerable female victim and dominant male villain were represented in a stereotypical way to make the message more effective.
Evaluation 1
The document discusses how the media product uses, develops or challenges conventions of the thriller genre in its mise-en-scene, characters, narrative, themes, camera work, editing, sound, setting, props and characters. It evaluates how the media product approaches these conventions based on research of other similar products.
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Media final evaluation Q1
- 1. QUESTION 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? NabilahVazir AS Media Studies Foundation Portfolio
- 2. Our media product challenged the norm of conventions within real media products by using a brighter and less sinister setting. SETTING We chose a park as the setting for the majority of our thriller as it is different to other thrillers which would captivate the audience and get them to question our choice as it is not conventional for a thriller to be set in such a bright and open place. The opening scene from ‘Silence of the lambs’ for example, conforms with the conventions as the setting is more daunting and typical for aThriller as the lighting is dark and it looks misty, which ours does not.
- 3. EDITING For example, we included Jump Cuts to add to add to the tenseness of the situation as well as try and effectively portray the confused and stressed out state of mind of the character. 1) 2) We used various editing techniques in our thriller opening to emphasise certain moods (confusion, tense, scared) which is a thriller convention. 3) 4)
- 4. The font we chose to use for the title of our thriller subverts the ordinary in various ways for effect. FONT We used a more simple font for our title to get straight to the point of the meaning of the title.Whereas a more fancy title would have been a distraction MostThriller fonts are more blockish compared to ours to emphasise a different message to the audience. For example: