How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
Conventions
With my film being classified as a horror/mystery and drama film, we used traditional conventions such as short takes, foreshadowing and a white lettering font. These conventions were purposely used to make the audience aware of the stalker, while the characters in the film had no idea they were being followed. The short takes were used near the end of the film as the stalker closes in on Lily because it adds suspense and intensifies the mood to go from slow paced to heart racing. Foreshadowing was used throughout the film with scenes of the stalker in dark clothing following the group of girls throughout the mall and all the way home. This convention was used to keep the audience interested and to implicate that something terrible will unfold later in the film. My group decided to use white lettering fonts for our titles because it was traditional for our genre film and it offsets the color in the background. The white titles appear for a few seconds, then fade out, prompting the suspense that awaits.
Social Groups
My film focuses on teenage girls for our target population and social group. This film captures the idea that teenage girls are less aware of their surroundings and that they walk alone at night when they shouldn't. The issues presented in this film are that young teenage girls are being taken advantage of and that they should always stay together and never be alone at night. All of our actors throughout the film are teenage girls, so we all represent the social group and have first hand experience with the issue being presented.
Conventions
With my film being classified as a horror/mystery and drama film, we used traditional conventions such as short takes, foreshadowing and a white lettering font. These conventions were purposely used to make the audience aware of the stalker, while the characters in the film had no idea they were being followed. The short takes were used near the end of the film as the stalker closes in on Lily because it adds suspense and intensifies the mood to go from slow paced to heart racing. Foreshadowing was used throughout the film with scenes of the stalker in dark clothing following the group of girls throughout the mall and all the way home. This convention was used to keep the audience interested and to implicate that something terrible will unfold later in the film. My group decided to use white lettering fonts for our titles because it was traditional for our genre film and it offsets the color in the background. The white titles appear for a few seconds, then fade out, prompting the suspense that awaits.
Social Groups
My film focuses on teenage girls for our target population and social group. This film captures the idea that teenage girls are less aware of their surroundings and that they walk alone at night when they shouldn't. The issues presented in this film are that young teenage girls are being taken advantage of and that they should always stay together and never be alone at night. All of our actors throughout the film are teenage girls, so we all represent the social group and have first hand experience with the issue being presented.
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