Our title of our film is very unintresting and this breaks the trend of using intresting text for the title and relating the text to the film in some way for example having a blood title in a horror movie. but ours was just plain text, this is intresting to the audience because nothing is given away about the film and they may want to find out more. Although our title may seem to not relate to our film in anyway to someone who is watching the film for the first time it actualy does relate because the text is very standard computer text and also a bit like the facespace title so it does actualy link to the film although this may not be obvious to some people.
We used the gursian blur to blur of Angel3323 when we were introducing a credit. This was to force the audience to concertrate on the credit, we pull in and out a few times to vary where to audince should focus. The animated text is typed across the screen to look as if a character is typing it this is effective and is new to film conventions i think it helps the credits flow much better as they seem to be more then irelevent to the audience as they are on the computer in the story.
One of these photos shows as we pull out of chloe and blur her to show the text being typed across the screen it is very effective and although i have seen blurs in films during credits to draw attention to the credits i have never seen blurs to draw atention to a text that is actualy present and part of the film like a diagetic text whereas credits would be non-diagetic. The other shows as we blur the text and chloe so we can bring a credit and the audience can focus on the credit so we are using blur on diffrent objects to get the audience to focus on diffrent aspects and break down what is on screen.
The green was supposed to be a matrics and show the communication beetween the information she is sharing we tracked back into this and the sound fades as if she is shareing her information with a huge connection of people. then we come out of it on to artbox as if the information is being shared onto that website. We did this to draw attention to the world inside the internet and show how thier was a hige network this is completly against horror film conventions. below i will show an example of the order tracking out at all times from the facespace page through the matrics onto the art box page.
Angeldust goes against the convention of horror films by having the female Actress (Angel3323) look directly into the camera the entire time. films will usually not do this because it ruins the illusion that the film and actors are real and separated from the audience but we intentionally did this in Angeldust because we wanted to create the sense that Angel3323 was talking to the camera because she was supposed to be blogging about herself and this was supposed to be footage from her blog and we thought that her staring into the camera would create a connection between her and the audience so her death would have more of an impact on the audience. Shots of the killer (lester727) folowed the convention of horror though as often in horror films the killer will have some of his shots done as a pov as this can create more tension. We did point of view shot from lester727 as he typed.
I also recognized a large convention in horror films was the characters image depending on their role. In most horror films the female victim will be a very attractive and innocent girl this is to make the audience feel closer to her and feel more impacted by her death. we followed this convention in Angeldust as we wanted the impact of Angel3323 to impact the audience as much as possible. Although we did break convention with lester727 (the killer) as it is a TV form to have all child molesters portrayed as beardy wierdy older men this is so the audience feels less remorse for that character. In our film we used a young man to play the killer this is because we wanted to challenge the convention and also because we were dealing with technology being used to stalk the victims so we thought it would be appropriate to use a younger man as they are the biggest users of these websites. Finaly we followed TV convention by using an enigma code this is having a mystery to the story and nto giving evreything away to the audience. In Angeldust we film the killer in a drak room where you cannot make out the full face of the killer also we did not show any motives for the killers actions, this way we would keep the audience intruiged, stop them losing intrest and encorage them to continue watching.
