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

Redrum productions isn’t a currently existing production company, this in itself challenges the forms of conventional media products. The text blurs into separate colors (red, green and blue), then fades out. This evokes a sense of mystery in the watcher, it upholds the reputation in slasher movies of particularly peculiar titles. (e.g. Halloween). Also Redrum is murder spelt backwards which is from the cult horror classic The Shining.

This shot challenges conventions of real media, because unlike the majority of slasher films, the film doesn't open with teenagers having sex, or another teenager babysitting. We are slightly dependant on gore and latex make up, but, unlike most horror flicks, we never actually show a victim being tortured, we merely build the tension to make the audience believe that this is going to happen.

One of the largest factors behind our thriller, unlike films in it's genre, is that we try to lead the audience to false assumptions. For instance in the above shot, we lead the audience to believe that our thriller is going to centre around what is outside the window. We use my soundtrack and some sound FX from soundtrack pro to create this illusion. (The noise idea was from The Blair Witch Project). We challenge the conventions of real media by building tension that isn't heavily relient on a central antagonist. In this shot, we used an exploding lightbulb (the lightbulb doesn't really explode, we created this effect by inserting sound FX and editing the white balance and exposure on shot) to create the tension. Most slasher films revolve around a central antagonist (i.e. Jigsaw from Saw, Freddy Kruger from The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, Jason Voorhees from the Friday the Thirteenth franchise and Michael Myers from the Halloween franchise.)

We used this shot, because the room isn't lit, the only light source is from an old torch and this forces the audience to focus on the victims face, and this makes the audience feel sympathy for the victim, because we see a look of anxiety and confusion on his face. We conform to other media products that are already successful in this scene by borrowing from The Blair Witch Project and Kill Bill Vol. 2 which use darkness and sound to create tension.Here we conform with current media conventions witht he over use of gore. This shot merely sets the scene for a room full dead bodies. Many films are overly reliant on this feature (i.e. Saw). We challenge current media by not being overly reliant on this. But we do mix in a bit of gore to create this tension.
This title challenges most media conventions because it isn't overlayed on top of real-time shots. It is merely overlayed on blackness. The title, like the first titles convey a sense of mystery, and seeing as this is the final shot of the opening sequence, it begs the question to the audience as to what happens after the titles.