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

 Our film simultaneously develops and challenges similar media product. A number of conventions were used to create a film which is a sci-fi and horror. which its self challenges classic ideology's. A convention which sticks to classic horror. is the location of a school which is also featured in recent horrors such as, Wes Cravens, 'Scream'.  Also the school in particular,  which happens to be hundreds of years old which worked massively in our favour. Features of the school are quite Gothic, which you would imagine are quite similar to buildings, in ligature of the classic horror genre. Much like Edgar Allen Poe's, The Masque of the Red Death. Although our school is not as picturesque, similar themes are feature in out mise en scene.
 The use of another convention of the classic genre, in nearly every classic black and white horror film features a damsel in distress who is stalked and prayed on by a male villain. She is always beautiful on a scene, pure and helpless. A film which features is the Tod Browning 1931 'Dracular'. [INSERT PIC] The idea that the attack could be of a sexual nature is not obvious in our film, however leaves room for the possibility.
 Another convention similar to the horror genre is the classic story line, we created nothing out of the ordinary to avoid confusion. In films such as Stanley Kubrick's, 'The shining' (Stanley Kubrick was a huge influence in the making of our film) the story line basically is- the male villain prays on te female damsel, and a huge amount of suspense is created by the music and certain shots, for example the corridor scene shot on an uneasy angle, which is featured in out film.
 We also challenge conventions quite bravely by producing a classic horror/ modern sci-fi. Instead of sticking to black and white which was the original plan, we made a brave decision to use colour grading, which gave a huge amount of unease to the film which was the intentions. It's so close to reality however not quite the same, which makes it eerie. This decision was the beginning of the sci-fi genre with a classic horror undertone.
 The non-diagetic music which creates suspense and a pace tot he film, challenges all sci-fi films. This music is not featured in such films because most films would not mix genres to avoid a possible clash. The music from our film was an influence from typical classic horrors.
 Another factor which challenges conventions of real media products is the villain, by watching our film some may question why there is an un-human villain in a school. This breaks every stereotypical sci-fi or classic horror. For example  James Cameron's 'The Terminator' . Which was a huge influence on our editing, the robot-being isn't featured in a school, he would have no place in this environment, its predominantly set in the slums of America, which is far from a secondary school in Britain which is where our film  is set.