Monday, 14 March 2011
Sunday, 13 March 2011
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Screen shot comparison: End of Days (1999)
Top Image: Actor 2: Eyes of Antagonist behind a Guy. Bottom Image: End of Days (1999) trailer screen shot.
Within spiritual/religious horrors, you often see in the eyes of the spirit, and this shot from our trailer you can see an extreme long shot of a male figure, which the camera gets closer too the male before eventually going straight into his face when he turns around. End of days (1999) also shows in the eyes of the antagonist, before it too goes into the back of a man. In most cases the devil is always linked in horrors to be male, however not in all cases. To increase the viewer’s awareness that they are in the eyes of something abnormal, and the clear antagonist, we have heavily controlled the colours throughout this clip, over-laying a clear red filter, which represents danger and the devil/Lucifer.
Screen shot comparison: Scream 4 (2011)
Top Image: Close up of Image (Water Tower Building). Bottom Image: Medium Shot of telephone. Trailer screen shot (Scream, 2011)
The meaning of this photograph within the screen shot taken from our match on action sequence is meant to represent the location of the danger source, were the narrative will conclude and where the new equilibrium will commence. In the case of Wes Craven’s Scream quadrilogy, part of the antagonism lies within simple phone calls, so within the movie when you see the phone ringing, it is a clear indication that the killer is on the end of the phone, therefore defeating that person on the end of the phone will defeat the antagonist and change the equilibrium.
Screen shot comparison: Freddy vs Jason (2003)
Top Image: Antagonist seen in background. Trailer screen shot (Freddy vs Jason, 2003)
Within many horror movie's, you often see on screen the antagonist appearing in the background. Althought on screen the characters are unaware of the presence of the antagonist, we as viewers witness the antagonist doing nothing or approaching the protagonist's or soon to be victims. Also it is not uncommon that the antagonist then disappears of screen, leaving the viewers questioned and on edge to where the antagonist has gone although on screen characters are completly unaware. Soon after the disapearance, the antagonist tends to re-appear but with a scare, usually instant cuts and loud non-diagetic sound is introduced to scare the viewers.
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