Q1 Evaluation

Q1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We chose our film to be in the psychological horror genre, as the protocol and elements are easy to replicate with are armature equipment. The characters in our psychological horror were mysterious, gothic and rather frightening to look at. We also wanted our characters to be presented as emotionally unstable which would be shown during the course of the film. This was achieved as planned. Our film was planned to take place in a woods near to a member of our group’s house. This way if any shots needed re-shooting we could easily travel there and correct them.



Elements of the psychological horror genre were replicated in our film. Blood and Gore, amongst mentally disturbed characters with weapons were all included in order to emphasize our genre. As far as Narrative is concerned, out film is set in non-linear narrative form, in order to further emphasize our psychological horror genre. 

We were able to represent our psychological horror genre through camera techniques. Flash backs were used to represent Violet’s (Annie’s) mental state, as she reminiscences the events in the woods. An extremely out of focus tracking shot of Rebecca is also used in our film. Extreme close ups of Annie’s face enables our audience to observe Annie’s heavy use of makeup. Bruises, cuts and grazes, and a bloody face. A point of view shot was used to show how Annie’s violent personality as she interrogates Amy (Jodie).

Close up of Violet (Annie)








Continuity and editing were key in the finalization of our film. Our film varied throughout, fast pace and slow, in order to display the crucial elements of action, against the slow paced speech which allows our audience to concentrate on. The majority of our film is verisimilitude, however sections such as at the ultimate scene, where eerie echoey voices suggest all the chaos and violence is not over. Cut and jump shots graphically match a heart beat sound effect for a dramatic effect. Match on action shots such as when Saul (Lucas) shoves Violet against a wall were also used to create drama. 

I believe sound was the most important feature within our film. The overriding voice mails which violet listens to whilst she reminiscences the events that occurred in the woods. We made these using the voice recording equipment. Other diagetic audio such as speech and the crunch of leaves as we step on them were also included in our film. Non diagetic sounds such as the overriding horror sound effects give our films a more sinister atmosphere. 

The characters in our films all wore some type of make up. Annie was most heavily made up, as the was the dominant protagonist, whereas Saul only has some fake blood on his face to show how Annie had attacked him. Becca and Jodie had moderate make-up, suggesting they are just normal teenagers. Click here for a link to our costume research and action. We did not use alot of props during the production of out film. A small knife was the only prop used. 

Our typography was not as impoirtant as some other elements in our film. the texts were in a black and white font, connoting good, and evil, which is relevant to our story line. The size of the texts were average, as we did not want them to stand out as much as the clip it was placed over.