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

 

Lighting

Within the final piece, the conventions used are generic to the thriller film genre. Many adjustments were made during filming and also whilst editing the opening sequence.The The contiual use of low key lighting is used as it reveals an unclear, unresolved sense of enigma. It is also seen in other thriller movies and the effect of this is not to reveal as much as possible at the start of the film to which therefore grasps the attention of the audience.

Similarly in Fight Club, you can't make out the location and scenery of where the characters are. The shots taken with low key lighting, somehow translated grainy on screen which is a disappointment however you could interpret the graininess of the footage to be confusing and unresolved which in turn reflects the relationship.  

The use of the tinted red lighting in the shot where the caretaker walks in which shines on the left side of his face is used to symbolise evil and therefore could represent the unknown insanity of the care taker. The colour red itself is a liminal colour because it could represent the love and warmth within the couples relationship and the cynical, corrupt views on the relationship.

Drama class

School Toilets

Setting/Location

Outside the school toilets

For deciding the locations of where to shoot, we were restrained and therefore when coming up our treatment,factors such as location and actors also had to be taken into account.

School's humanities corridor.

However we took it to our advantage as our target audience is age 15 and up,we thought our audience could relate to the setting and scenario. They may have either witnessed bullying or they may have been a victim to bullying.

Titling

 We found that looking at other thriller posters and titling, quite a few used both black and red. The emphasis is therefore put on the name of the film. The boldness of the colour red is almost an alert,   a pre-warning to what is to happen in the film. We used this convention and embedded

Bound To-Get-Her.

 in our title sequence. At first we came up with the title Bound as it was referring to the couples relationship. However I thought of including a play on word which was To-Get-Her. The reason behind this is because it reflects what the care taker is feeling. On one hand, he has to capture the girl and therefore has to get her, but also the fact that in the end they would end up together.

The Care Taker

Sophie

 Mise-En-Scene  
Both our main characters are wearing clothing to which is not out of the ordinary and also to which our mainstream audience can recognise. Other props used when filming the opening are ropes, the trolley the care taker uses and the keys to the classroom. By listing these series of props, you can tell they are referred to some sort of kidnapping.


 Introducing the characters
 When we are first introduced to both characters, their faces are both distorted one with a smudged mirror reflection and the other with the natural glare of lighting. This reflects that both characters have a troublesome life to which if we were to film the whole movie, we would be able to find out     why.

As said in our Treatment we would include elements of the Fritzl case and Stockholm syndrome, it challenges what viewers expect to be the ending of the thriller. When doing our audience research, when asked what is expected of a thriller movie the majority answered with a twisted unexpected ending which therefore our narrative does fit into their criteria.