1 FORMS & CONVENTIONS

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

Distributors: We chose Metrodome as it is London-based & known for distributing indie films made by new talent. Metrodomes aim is to reach a young, urban audience.

Production company: We are JAM, a new production company with fresh talent, hoping to reach a young, national audience.

Co-production company: We are in association with Blow studios, Michaelides studios.

Opening shot/establishing shot: In a graveyard, focused on a stone statue of an angle. We thought this would be very dramatic and would draw our audience in.

Protagonist: Emily, who is a teenage girl will have an emotional impact on the audience.

Two shot: Shows the two sisters together to emphasis the strength of their relationship, also dramatists the splitting up from one another.

Shot-reverse-shot: The audience is able to see the expressions on the two sisters faces when they are together. 

Tracking shot: Allows the audience to read body languages through following the characters movement. Tracking shots are also very dramatic and will add in tension.

Close up: Makes it more clear for the audience to understand how characters are feeling when a shot is close to their face as emotion is more easily distinguished.

Extreme close up: This is used to focus or highlight an important feature on the characters face, for example the eyes. It can be very mysterious and dramatic and can also change the audiences perspective.

Pan: This is used at the start of the film opening in the graveyard as an establishing shot. The audience are able to get a feel for the environment of the set.

Credits: Will be presented to identify the major actors and who was involved with the making and distributing of the film.

Title: The title of our film is shown at the start of the film opening along with the establishing shot of the graveyard.

Enigma: This draws more mystery to the film making it more enticing to the viewers to carry on watching. Our film has a gradual build up which urges the audience to continue.

Suspense: Our film draws suspense into it by the use of music, the gradual build up of sound effects and the cliff hanger the audience are left on at the very end.

Barthes: Barthes was one of the leading theorist of semiotics, which is the study of signs. He researched how audiences interpret what they see and that they look for signs to help them understand the story. In our film we incorporated the use of a bedroom that the two girls share to signify they are related, as well as this the type of music we used signified it was a mysterious film opening.