Question 1

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

Inspiration:


For the inspiration of our thriller movie we studied a variety of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller's and other thriller movie's which i then went onto analyze and talk about on my blog. By doing this it helped me get a look at ways in which other thriller's have been built up to use suspense and the way's in which they have made the viewer almost allow themselves to get involved and get into the movie to become one with the movie. This helped as i could then go onto use these technique's in our thriller movie. 


Here is a link to the advert for the film "No Country for Old Men" which i analyzed at the start of the course. This is one of the film's which helped me to understand the convention's on the way a thriller movie works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kqoJevTIIQ&feature=player_embedded


This is one of the photo's which i captured from the above link to then go onto analyze:

Genre:


The genre of the movie is thriller. By using thriller as our genre it allowed us to not quite make a horror but show off different shot size's and technique's to add suspense to the movie. This was good as it allowed us to use a wide variety and it also allowed us to use different music/sound effect's in the background of the movie which can be seen as very good media techniques.


Font:


To come to a final decision on the font we used for out main title in the thriller movie i looked/analyzed a variety of other thriller and even horror movie's to get an idea of what sort's of font's looked good for this type of film. It looked over a variety of font's which came across as spooky or edgy which show's off how other film maker's thought.


Here is a link to the part of my blogger where i analyzed the fonts:
http://elizabethrosedaviesasmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/fonts-for-thrillers.html


This is one of the cover's to a film which i analyzed the font on it. I did this with numerous different film covers to help come to a decision of what out thriller font should be:

Production Logo:


The production logo which we used in the end was created and based on a saying which we thought fitted in with the thriller scene. By doing this it also show's off what sort of movie's we would be making just by looking at our logo. We decided to make the main title of our logo in a different language as we felt it made it fit even more into this.


Here is an image of our final logo: