Evaluation

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

As we decided upon producing the opening two minutes of a horror/drama, we watched some opening clips of films within this genre/sub-genre combination, finding one which we particularly liked. 'The Devil's Backbone' has a poetical theme to it, so we chose to develop this in our production. During the opening scene there is a poem being read out by me, the story line to our film is summed up in the poem however the film adds twists to it throughout. We have also developed the forms and conventions of horror films in our horror aspect of the film because we typically use a young girl as a victim, and blood can be seen in the opening two minutes in order to establish that there is going to be more blood in the film which is a convention of a horror film. A convention of a horror/drama is that a female usually dies within the first five minutes of the film which we have developed into our film as there are images of a female character who appears to be dead. Another convention is that females exhibit strength and intelligence, and our murderer, which is female show strength and intelligence through murdering victims and avoiding being caught, however we have also challenged this convention by having a female murderer as this is usually the role of a male in horror/drama films.