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

Our film compares with “Saw” because both conform to typical stereotypes of a horror film being quite dark and mysterious. Another factor that is similar is the death, the narrative for our product has a lot of death throughout which is one of the main points to the story which is like “Saw”. We have seen the money that the “Saw” movies have made which is why we decided to go along the same lines. The film we have made uses a lot of fast camera movements and jump cuts which creates tension and fear for the audience which I thought was one of the best conventions of “Saw”. The rating for our film is ‘15’ which is not as high as any of the saw films which I believe will open up the range of audience that will see our film. In our film not too much is given away which builds up the tension in the audience and making them interested right up to the end. This is similar to “Saw” because the “villain” is shown as a mystery.

Our film does not compare to the horror film “Insidious” through the narrative because it is more of a supernatural horror whereas ours is a horror/ thriller but I believe that they will attract the same types of audience. Saying that the two films are completely different would be a lie because the camera shots and editing are both used in the same way to create the same effect on the audience. The editing used in both movies are jump cut to create a sense of fear among the viewing audience, making people jump is one on the main conversions of watching a horror especially in the cinema.  In some parts of “Insidious” to slow down the pace of the film long tracking shots are use, we also use this type of movement along with panning to show the audience the characters surroundings and to keep the audience interested. “Insidious” is another 18 rated film which is higher than our film.

I conclude that our film conforms to some typical stereotypes that other horror/ thrillers use but we use them in different areas to create other emotions among the audience.