Evaluation Question 1

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

We chose Horror as the genre for our film,  we did a lot of research in to what the conventions of a horror similar to ours was by looking at films such as 'Sleepy Hollow' and 'Paranormal Activity'. I preferred the wide open spaces and use of forests in 'Sleepy Hollow' so we incorporated that in to our film shown by the screenshot below.

We wanted the suspense and release convention shown in 'Paranormal Activity' to be a key convention in our film. An example of this is the screenshot below where the 2 protagonists stumble across the antagonist in the form of a corpse. 

We never thought of trying to challenge any conventions of the horror genre apart from shooting in daylight, as most often horror movies are at night or in the dark, which was mostly due to technicalities.

These are some screen shots that may show some of the conventions we chose to use in our film.