2. In What Ways Does Your Media
Product, Use, Develop Or
Challenge Forms And
Conventions Of Real Media
Products?
3. SYNOPSIS
• Travelling circus comes to town
• Ringmaster is in charge of everything, drugs
his performers (like the clown) and orders
them to kidnap and murder circus visitors and
town folk
• People go missing in the towns
• Circus then leaves mysteriously, never gets
found out
4. This movie was made in
1981. Against her father's
orders, teenager Amy
visits a sleazy
travelling fun fair with her
new boyfriend Buzz, her
best friend Liz, and Liz's
irresponsible boyfriend,
Richie. The story concerns
these four teenagers that
are trapped in a dark
ride and stalked by a
deformed killer.
Directed by Tobe Hooper
5. Film made in 1961. A plastic surgeon wanted
by the police after an operation goes hideously
wrong. However, believing himself to have
brilliant abilities as a surgeon, he and his
assistants evade capture and escape to the
Continent. There he befriends a circus owner
on whose deformed daughter Nicole he
operates.
He manipulates his way into running the
circus, taking it over when the owner dies in a
"freak accident." A decade later, he is running
an internationally successful circus, which he
uses as a front for his surgical exploits. He
befriends deformed women and transforms
them for his "Temple of Beauty". However,
when they threaten to leave, they meet with
mysterious accidents.
Directed by Sidney Hayers
6. 2012 Film. This
plot concerns a
birthday clown
returning from
the dead to exact
revenge upon a
group of children
who contributed
to his death.
Directed by Conor McMahon
7. Codes and Conventions of
Characters
Insane
Deformed
Evil
Wild
Drugged
Scary Version of Clown
Costume
CLOWN
8. Codes and Conventions of
Characters
Directed by
Conor
McMahon
Directed by Stephen King
9. Codes and Conventions of
Characters
Secretive
Suspicious
Absent
Controlling Everything
Behind The Scenes
Older Man
RINGMASTER
Directed by JamesWan
10. TRAILER
C O N V E N T I O N S
1.Starts with uplifting music/
circus music
2.Colourful costume and setting
3.Quick shots
4.Running victim
5.Screams
6.Changing to darker music
7.Diegetic sounds with soundtrack
8.Introduced circus setting at the
beginning
C H A L L E N G E S
1.No dialogue
2.Slow motion
3.No graphic images
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
feature=player_embedded&v=BMoQQ7
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYW3NyAPuMI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjpvHBndhNM
http://vimeo.com/65466184
11. An art film (also known as art movie, specialty film, art house film, or in the collective
sense as art cinema) is the result of filmmaking which is typically an independent
film aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. An art film is "intended
to be a serious artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal"; they
are "made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit" and they contain
"unconventional or highly symbolic content."
ART HOUSE STYLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0lNGXoP8E
Directed by Robert Clouse
13. POSTER
C O N V E N T I O N S
1.Rule of thirds, using head shot of character
2.Dark background
3.Actors names
4.Strap line
5.Billing box
6.Title
C H A L L E N G E S
1.Ratings
2.Masked Face
Directed by AlexandreA
Directed by JamesWatkins
14. C O N V E N T I O N S
1.Matches style of poster (image, font,
colour scheme)
2.Embedded Trailer
3.Social bookmarking (Media Convergence)
4.Navigational Menu
C H A L L E N G E S
1.No border around trailer
2.Face of character on website
3.No DVDs available
4.No iTunes button
5.No release date
WEBSITE
Directed by Paul Solet
Directed by JamesWatkins
15. How Effective Is The
Combination Of Your Main
Product And Ancillary
Texts?
21. •I learned that theaudiencewerevery
hard to please.
•Someof them didn’t watch or likeany
horror films.
•Theolder audienceproffered classic old
horror films.
•They werevery into theclassic
conventionsof horror films.
•Most weren't scared of clowns.
22. Media Students Feedback
I received a different perspective as the audience was a younger
generation and knew more about media conventions and
codes.
FEEDBACK ON ROUGH CUT OF CIRQUE
1.Our peers thought that our establishing shots were too
light and un-threatening so they suggested that we grade
the images so that they are darker and build on the idea
that the trailer is for a horror.
23. 2.They said they thought the clown (the killer) is introduced
to early on in the trailer and they think it would be better if
he was introduced near the end to create shock, but our
best visual shots had the clown in and we really like using
the spinning tunnel at the beginning as we find it quite
chilling so we discussed it and because of the abstract art
house aspects we wanted we decided to keep that shot at
the beginning.
24. 3.They said that they liked how the fast shots were edited but
they think that we should use more of a variation between
slow and fast. Perhaps a slow cut of the hands round the door
in slow motion and then a quick shot of the clowns head close
up, this would create building tension then shock.
25. 4.They liked the titles that had been
used but they thought we should
explain more of the story with them,
maybe use reviews as titles ora
newspapercutting with something like
“mysterious deaths at local circus”
26. How Did You Use New
Media Technologies In
The Construction And
Research, Planning And
Evaluation Stages?