In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
In many ways our product challenges forms of conventions of the slasher genre. Our Final girl is the first victim. After the opening sequence the film will go on to kill of the rest of the choir girls (all of whom look like typical scream queens) one by one. Throughout the opening sequence sexual content and extreme violence is lacking, both of which are generally expected when viewing a slasher or horror film.
However in other ways our media product follows the typical conventions of a slasher film. Following Todarovs theory, it starts with a form of equilibrium as the killer is dressed up and in context with the season/ holiday of winter/ Christmas time.
In terms of cinematography our opening is fairly stereotypical of what would be expected in a slasher opening. The short shots and fast pace editing, that we used,also match common conventions.
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