Evaluation Question 1. In What Way Does Your Media Project Use, Develop, or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products.








Screen shots;

These screenshot represent some of the more focal points of our film.

The mysterious figure in black (Aiden) is a very traditional aspect of our film. As the unexplained, murdering, antagonist he is modeled very closely on people like Micheal Myers (Halloween) and Jason Voorhees (Jason). The same goes for the girl (Adrienne) playing the innocent, vulnerable heroine (for now). The idea of a female victim goes back as far as all horror films and has been common even to this day. Similar to the old Christopher Lee Hammer Horror Dracula films there is always at least two female protagonists. This is until however when one of them gets bitten and turns into a vampire (Ours being the latter). This idea of a evil (once good) younger female is the focal point of films like The Ring, The Grudge and Let The Right One In. We based our character on these kinds of girls by Catherine and Anastasia dressing her in more innocent clothing to illustrate this fact. This kind of Mise En Scene (the all black clothing for Aiden and the schoolgirl look for adrienne) is very traditional and makes sure the audience knows immediately who they are in relation to the plot.

Less conventional aspects of our film are the focal prop (The Red Balloon) and The Tree. It must be said the idea of using The Tree to obscure her death/murder came about more from low budget than artistic inspiration but in my opinion too many modern horror films (Saw, Hostile, Hills Have Eyes) are too keen to get some blood on screen in the first five minutes. This is at least one way our film defies convention. Our recurring prop being a balloon came about only because it was supposed to be a birthday party but we lied the link to childhood and the slight mystery in only having one balloon and incorporated it with the film as much as we could while trying to remain subtle. Having a recurring prop is not uncommon in horror (sack mask in The Orphanage, Chainsaw in The Evil Dead, The Cat in the ALIEN films.) but ours, to our minds has never been used in horror before, as well as being very distinctive.