Evaluation One

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

Our plot is based around the death of one of the main characters that comes back to haunt the other characters during the two minutes. We made sure the death was included in the flashbacks to make sure that the audience could follow what had happened and didn’t get confused during the first two minutes but also to draw them into the action  as it will make them interested in how they died and why.

 We showed the names of the main actors during the first two minutes to inform the audience before the film actually began and they were placed over the actors who played those parts to allow the audience to put a name to a face during the rest of the film. We also made sure that the main title sequence was placed just as Piper vanished to allow the shock to sink into the audience.

Our plot is non-linear due to the flashbacks during our film to show what has happened in the past to give the audience some context to what has happened previously and why a ghost has appeared without any reason so we included the day Piper died during flashback form.

The music we used made the film build tension as it was slow whilst the camera was moving through the living room which made the audience begin to feel the tension right at the beginning of the film which led into the horror genre. The bangs towards the end when the figure appears also make the audience feel tense and fearful because of the volume and the sharpness of them. As it ends on a children’s song it allows the audience to empathise with the group and allow their fear to grow. The pace increased and decreased depending on the action in the film to make the audience have a false sense of security.

The lighting towards the end of the film made the figure look like a ghost as it was around the frame making her stand out and also make the audience fear her because she isn’t human and they’ve just seen her dead body.

Because of the editing around the flashbacks it makes the audience jump because of the blurriness and the unsteady pace of it builds up the suspense because it was hand held and it was fast paced which made the audience unsure of the outcome.