AS Foundation Portfolio Reflective Evaluation: Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real Media Products?

To understand ways which my horror film challenges and conveys existing films I am going to analyse key shots from my film compared to key shots of existing horror films under my sub-genre which is Vampire.

Firstly here is a key shot of my logo which I used for my horror film at the beginning and below is a logo from the movie

I do not believe this image of my logo on the left has no resemblance or similarities to the logo from the popular vampire horror film Twilight. The image of the logo from Twilight is similar to a convention you would see in a vampire horror film as the text is in a bold style whilst my logo challenges existing conventions because  it has an eye in a triangle with "shipley Productions" wrote above it which has no similarities what so ever.

I will now compare titles from my vampire horror film "The Night Stalker" to titles from the film "30 days of Night".

The titles used in my vampire horror film were deliberately dark as I believe it was create a dark era about my vampire movie and I believe that they fit existing conventions.  This is proved by the titles being similar to the ones used in 30 days of Night.

Next I will compare an image which establishes sub-genre with the film 30 days of Night again and I can conclude that both images follow existing conventions because they both look very similar to something you would see in a typical existing vampire horror film.

Both the Vampire in my vampire horror film which was played by me and the vampire in 30 days of Night look very similar and follow existing conventions as the vampires look similar. Both these images also share similar characteristics as both pictures from 30 days of Night and my horror film "The Night Stalker" are from a "close up" camera angle and they both use make-up  to make their vampires look realistic. When I filmed my horror film I used red face pain with a mix of strawberry jam, Also both pictures also  have a dark atmosphere around them and are very similar.

The next image I am going to compare is the topic of "character" an image from my horror film which shows character is the part where the victim turns around and shouts "who's there?" as he hears a noise from behind him this image is compared to the image from the film "dracula (1931). Both of these shots share the similarity that they are a close up shot.

 The image on the left from my horror film "The Night Stalker" is from the scene where the victim See's a dark shadow down the street which is a vampire this shows character as we can see the fear on the victims face, even though the victim has only seen a dark shadow down the dark road he still immediately associates it with something scary. Whilst on the image from "Dracula" the women in the picture is clearly calm about the Vampire putting his hands on her neck and this would persuade that she is a confident character who holds no nerves about things such as vampires.

An Image that shows mise en scene from my vampire horror film is when the victim at the start of my horror movie gets up off the floor after laying un-conscious and gets up. The mise en scene is the lighting in this clip as I wanted to make it clear that there was blood on the floor so I used a torch to shine light on the ground where the fake blood was laid.

The second image is from the film "The Human Centipede 2" in this scene the mental man is reading a book which possesses all his information of what the man is going t do with all the people he has captured in his warehouse, This Book plays a key part in the film.   These pictures differ greatly from each other as the one from The Human Centipede 2 is in black and white colour whilst the one from my horror film is in a dark lightening. The Human Centipede 2 scene is a close up shot whilst the scene from my horror film is a medium shot. Lastly I am going to compare 4 key pictures from my horror film and four from other existing horror films.
Firstly the key pictures from "The Night Stalker" will be showed below.

These 4 pictures from my horror film are key moments in my film as they use important mise en scene, setting and lighting and represent aspects seen in a typical horror film.  The images below are the images from an existing horror film.

The images above are from the film "30 days of Night" and the film "Grave Encounters" these images can be compared easily to the images from my horror film because they share similarities such as the camera angle two of the images off my horror film are the same as the ones from the existing horror films. The images from the existing films Grave Encounters and 30 days of Night typically follow conventions as they use good mise en scene ad lighting. My images also follow conventions of a vampire movie as I use good close ups of the vampires teeth as well as dark lighting.