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

The narrative of our media product is a typical horror film with a thrilling story line, shocking and disturbing images and an ambiguous twist. However we are not filming our media product in a typical way which adds an edge to the film. We have been influenced by films such as clover field and have discovered using a hand held camera to film makes the film more realistic and individual. With this is mind we have decided to film our film like this, with the Dad holding the hand held camera filming the “moving in” of the family. Our whole media product will be viewed through the dads camera which will make the whole situation and story more believable but possibly harder to film. During the film we will be viewing what’s going on in several different ways as the dad forgets to turn the camera off when he thinks he has so we see things and images we shouldn’t see. This creates tension and suspense for the viewers which we want as they know something the people in the film don’t.
Even though we do challenge forms and conventions of the real media products in the way we our filming out media product, our factors are stereotypical. In the way our storyline is based it is stereotypically horror cliché with an innocent, helpless family who have obviously had had family problems who are walking into a haunted house which will bring them even more issues and mystery. The family which consists of the dad, daughter and son are however not a stereotypical family as a wife is not present. Even though it’s not classically stereotypical, the daughter demonstrates “motherly” actions which some people can relate to in our society now. This makes our media product more personally, intimate and realistic to some of the viewers. They are dressed stereotypically to make it realistic also which makes the product scarier as people could see it happening to them.