Question 1

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

Our media product uses forms of a real media product, for example we use a macguffin which is the bag, a mac guffin is used to trigger the plot and the bag does that by getting the audience to think that the character has something to hide. An example of a real macguffin is  in North by North West in 1959, the macguffin is government secrets.

We also used a red herring in our product, a red herring is used to mislead the audience and make them think something that is not actually happening, then later in the storyline it is revealed and the audience is in shock because they never expected what is going on to happen. In our product the red herring is me the actress, the audience think I'm innocent during the plot then at the end it turns out I'm actually in on the plot. An example of a real red herring is in a film called Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock, one of the main characters is built up to be a innocent kind man and when it's coming towards the end of the film he is revealed to be a psycho serial killer.

Furthermore in our product we used music to build tension within the audience, as the male character is going into the shed the music gets higher and it creates suspense and the audience think that something bad is going to happen. Another example of this is in psycho when he is killing the women in the shower high pitch music is being played, even though you don't see the women actually being murdered, you just see a knife, then the women's face the music leads you to think that she is being murdered.

Our product is similar to a film called Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), the film is a musical about a barber who becomes friendly with a baker, together they make a team, Todd brings people in to his barbers and kills them whilst giving them a "close shave" then sends their body to the baker who then puts the meat into her famous pies. This film inspired our final product, we was interested in the idea of cannibalism and though we could incorporate it into our short sequence. \