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

In our main task we used close up shots to portray the genre and show the bruising and cuts on her face which shows that it is a psycological horror. We used 'Vertigo' by Alfred Hitchcock to emphasise the horror, he does not show the womans whole face just her facial features to make the audience on edge and make them want to continue watching. We tried to base the mise en scene as a horror to make it clear to the audience what genre the film is. The girls costume; a plain white gown; we researed on google what someone in a mental institution would wear and it said a plain gown which is stereotypical and tells the audience she is in a mental instiution. We used dark lighting, black, stereotpye of a horror as it makes it more scary and mysterious, and the audience only concentrates on the main thing being shown on screen. The music used is echoey and creepy; as it would be in a horror, we also blurred someone speaking to add a frightening effect. When the girl screamed we shook the camera to make it seem more psychological, we got this idea from a pscycological horror film named 'Orphan' which is shown in the trailer below. We also used close up shots of her arm which showed she had been self harming which also adds to idea of it being psycological. I think we used many different effects to create a conventional real media piece.

                              'Orphan' trailer;

'Vertigo' opening sequence;