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

1.     In what ways does your media product use Develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product?

Narrative Enigma –

·       People question why the girl is on her own in the woods, why is she skipping along, why can we not see her face, because face and particularly eyes can reveal everything about a person, people have no idea what to expect in the end because face isn’t included.

·       The Lovely Bones (2009) – The film is centred around a young girl who is snatched by her killer and is left all alone, but at first it is not known whether she is heaven or not, this is a narrative enigma convention, much in the same way that the girl in our clip is all on her own and the audience does not know the storyline(EG. What she is doing, whether she is dead or alive, because of makeup). Lovely bones is different to our media video because it also draws attention to the turmoil of the family who the little girl belongs too

·       Tideland (2005) – The similarities between this film and our media clip are that it is a thriller based mainly around a young innocent child, but in this case it is the death of her ‘irresponsible’ parents that lands her in an eerie fantasy world. This film is different to our film and The Lovely Bones, because the child is experiencing a fantasy world that is in her imagination, and not associated with heaven

Fear of the unknown –

·       Jeepers Creepers (2001) – Where a brother and sister driving through isolated countryside come across a strange creature during is ‘ritualistic’ killing spree. The similarities between this film and our film are the ideas of the unknown because for the part of the film you can don’t get to see the creature properly, you only get to see silhouette flashing past the screen, in the same sense, the audience do not get to see the girls face during the clip, hiding her true identity, and the expression ‘The eyes tell a thousand things’ you do not get a real sense for who this girl is, the audience cannot relate to her in any way, she is just a lonely blank figure skipping through the woods.
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Themes of Voyeurism –

·       The Lovely Bones (2009) – This film again relates to themes of voyeurism as Mr. Harvey becomes obsessed with the young girl which drives him to the idea of building a trap to catch her in a field that she uses as a shortcut to get home from school, he has watched her use this short cut, and therefore knows where she is most likely to go, he ‘scouts’ his victims building traps specific to each girl in particular, with detailed drawings of girls and plans to catch them. Similar to out media film cbecause of parts in the clip where strange shots are used to create the idea that the girl is being watched.

·       Phonebooth (2002) – In this film, actor Kiefer Sutherland plays a character who similarly scouts out his victims, but he does not target young vulnerable girls, he instead targets those who he feels need to confess to theirs sins, such as in this case, he traps a man in a phone booth until he confesses to cheating on his wife and various other sins. The marksman finds pleasure in trapping his victim ‘like a rat’ and playing mind games on him pushing him to the verge of suicide, the similarities are again in the idea that this person is watching over the main character.