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Foundation Portfolio Part 1

The document discusses how the film uses and challenges conventions of real films. It develops conventions like professional-looking titles that set the mood and having a distressed protagonist. It challenges conventions by having a male protagonist and female villain rather than the typical genders. The opening sequence establishes multiple equilibriums and disequilibriums rather than just one of each, leaving the audience with questions at the end.

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Foundation Portfolio Part 1

The document discusses how the film uses and challenges conventions of real films. It develops conventions like professional-looking titles that set the mood and having a distressed protagonist. It challenges conventions by having a male protagonist and female villain rather than the typical genders. The opening sequence establishes multiple equilibriums and disequilibriums rather than just one of each, leaving the audience with questions at the end.

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

Within our film we developed numerous conventions as well as occasionally contrasting them too. Firstly, we ensured that our film looked professional and naturalistic by following the conventions of the order of the titles. Titles are essential for an opening sequence as it gives the audience a little bit of background detail on the production of the film they are about to watch. Also, the layout, names and background of the production/distribution companies often set a mood for the film. We ensured that this was the case for our film by creating a production company called Thrillseekers Productions which clearly integrates with the psychological thriller genre that we decided to be the category wed put our film under. The titles are written in a sans-serif font, which challenges the usual serious tone, which is found in thrillers. However, the font we used is unique and has quite a scratchy sort of sense to it as if written in a rush, which could possibly imply panic and fright, which are occurring moods within our film. We decided to put the titles over the first few shots of the film so that they could intercept the mood we were trying to portray whilst acknowledging the titles. Our shots had graphic matches of smoke and metaphoric symbolisation of isolation. We did this because smoke connotes emotions such as isolation as well as panic, fear and eeriness. By doing so, we clearly portrayed an establishing mood/theme that will be continued throughout the film. To add to this, we also added music containing extremely high and low pitch synth sounds to keep the audience on edge as well as ensuring that the film looked and sounded even more professional. We decided to make our soundtrack from scratch so that itd suit our film perfectly and frighten the audience at the right time. This exaggerated the mood even more to ensure that it came across to the audience. By using these specific sounds to create a build-up of tension, we developed another conventions found in film. Within the thriller genre, there are often aesthetic conventions found too. For instance, there is usually a female protagonist. This is because women are stereotypically known for being vulnerable and weak whilst a male villain creates the disequilibrium within the film. Refreshingly, we decided to make the protagonist who faces life-threatening problems within the film male and to cast the hallucinogenic villain within the film a female. This sticks with the conventions of having a distressed protagonist, but contrasts the genders of the conventional characters to be unique. Opening sequences also the convention of giving the audience an equilibrium so it can set the scene so that the audience know what is the norm within the specific scenario. Films then carry on

with a disequilibrium followed by a new equilibrium. We opposed this convention by containing all three within our opening sequence as well as following it up with another disequilibrium. This is shown within our opening sequence by seeing our protagonist take a bath (an equilibrium), have blood drip on his head whilst in the bath (disequilibrium) followed by him running out of the bath to take pills so that everything is back to normal (a new equilibrium). This is then followed by a hallucination that has come to life and risen out of the bath after him (another disequilibrium). This creates a cliffhanger effect ensuring that the audience will want to carry on watching after the opening sequence. Although this contrasts with the normal convention of giving the audience an equilibrium, it follows another which is leaving the audience with questions.

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