Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
1. Choose nine frames from your main task, that represent: 

The title of the film
Setting/location
Costumes and props
Camerawork and editing
Title font and style
Story and how the opening sets it up
Genre and how the opening suggests it
How characters are introduced
Special effects

2. Put them into a grid using Photo shop. 

3. Underneath write a detailed explanation. Explain why you have made these choices, and how they compare to typical horror films. Is your film different or similar to other horror films? 

In the first frame, I have chosen purgatory productions. We decided to have Purgatory productions because all films have production company they are made from. We chose Purgatory productions because it links well with our movie. Another reason we chose this design is because the text and design clearly reflect the Gothic horror genre.  Purgatory basically means being in-between Heaven and hell. The colours red and black are used to represent danger and darkness and seeing as our main character is exposed to both these things it works perfectly. The colours red and black compliment each other with the image because they simply imply a sense of evil and foreboding for the audience. The font also gives the impression that the words were scrawled in blood. The white image in the centre is a part of Satan, showing his mouth chewing on a human body.

The second frame has our title, originally the title was meant to carry on into the next scene and then fade out but we decided it was better to leave it just at the start because it would distract the audience from the actual scene, we chose this title because it has a Gothic ring to it and it is short, catchy and precise. RIP has connotations of death/ graves and etc. May the souls of the recently departed rest in peace. We decided that it would appeal to our target audience seeing as the word RIP seems somewhat interesting and a bit sinister. We also decided to it at the beginning because it helps the audience understand better what it is about instead of being confused. We got Maria to hand write the title since she has been taking calligraphy lessons and it really fitted with our film.

The third frame is our setting/location. We chose a mid-long shot in order for the audience to see the location better and to see one of the characters.
We chose this location in order for the audience to know that wherever you are then anything can happen to you whether you know it or not. The fact that she next to a church would make you think that she is at least protected but she's not.

The fourth frame shows one of the props we have used--the shovel. It also shows part of the shoes our antagonist is wearing. The antagonist is shown from the back so the audience doesn't really get a clear view of the antagonist because the face is not shown. This gives the audience a burning desire to find out who the character is and what their background story could be. This is the shovel used to dig up the grave for the burial of the protagonist.

The fifth square represents camerawork and editing, though mostly camerawork. The shot here is a long shot, with the protagonist framed by the branches and evident thorns. The mis- en- scene here is interesting, and was captured by our camerawoman.

The next shot is of the antagonist burying the main character, with the shovel. This represents our story as the title is, 'Rest In Peace' and this shot conveys to the audience the pinnacle of our opening scene, when we see the protagonist buried alive.

The next shot is of the antagonist, with the shovel sitting across the back of her shoulders. I have chosen this shot because it highlights the fact that our antagonist is a female, as opposed to horror films that commonly use a male as the antagonist. One could say that the antagonist looks extremely satisfied with what she has done depending on her body language.

The eighth shot is of our protagonist waking up from being unconscious. In this shot the protagonist looks confused as to where she is as we can see from the extreme close up of her eye. We decided to use this to emphasise the fact that she is not dead but just buried alive and it can make it easier for the audience to understand. It was pretty hard with this shot because we didn't have enough light and we had to keep changing the effects because we couldn't find the perfect effect to use but we finally found it. We used the clip effects on iMovie to do this.

The last and final shot is of the protagonist's feet being dragged along the ground. This is the instance when she is knocked unconscious for the antagonist to bury her in a grave.

The one film that really inspired us was "Kill Bill". The antagonist in Kill Bill is similar to ours, by keeping the face hidden suspense and tension is added in the film, but also leaves the viewer curious to know who the antagonist is.
Later on in Kill Bill, we see that the bride is trapped in a small confined space, underground. This scene is similar with ours, when Ava is trapped and buried alive by the antagonist.