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

Special Effects

Lack of budget, equipment and technology.

Used slow motion and sped up some scenes.

Relied on editing software – Final Cut Pro

Altering of colours using filters.

Enhancing green eyes using editing software colour wheel.

Most sci-fi and horror films use special effects like green screens and have higher budgets to work with.

Title, Font and Style

Black and White, Bold, Decaying 

Sense of Importance

Catches your attention

Ominous

Font similar to apocalyptic films but also can be very different to horror and sci-fi genres.

Setting up of the story

Audience feel disorientated at the beginning, only to be clarified when the film will go back in time after the opening.

Dive right in to the middle of the story.

Main characters introduced.

Ends on cliff hanger – what is going to happen next?

Doesn't start from the beginning like most films - challenges expectations

Costumes and Props

Contact lenses and scale make up, fake blood and injuries help depict genre.

Baseball bat – links to life of a teenager.

Not many props unlike many films - shows lack of belongings in circumstances.

Genre

Use of blood, dark colours and unnatural make up.

Solidifies the violent and unnatural themes.

The font and depicted devastation clarifies the genre to include violence, sci-fi themes and horror.

Unlike horror because it is focusing on the plot and the cure and disease more than scaring people which makes it more sci-fi.

How characters are introduced

Straight into middle of the plot

Uncertain position to be clarified later on

Tense and hectic atmosphere, hard to make a judgement, especially since the opening lacks speech – the relationship with the character comes later on

Camerawork and Editing

Use of quick cuts

White Noise to add suspense and tension

Failure of civilization