Alex Harris AS Media Blog 1: Horror

Question 1:  In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? My Horror film exploits the use of sound to build up tension throughout the film. It uses little details to let the viewers in on the story without shoving exposition in their face, unlike a number of horror films. It also subverts the trope of a victim being lured to a location by having the killer lock the student in a location that they go to frequently regardless. Question 2:  How does your media product represent particular social groups? Hide and Seek does very little to represent any social group. The only person who might be a part of a typical social group (male student) is shown to be mild, withdrawn, and quiet, but there is generally very little to go over, especially considering the lack of dialogue. Question 3:  What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? I believe that Warner Brothers is the ideal company for t

Link to Horror Film: Hide and Seek Hide and Seek is the name of my variation of a horror film I (Alex Harris) worked on with Alex McNally. It's a short film of sorts, but it serves as a trailer or prologue of a larger story. That larger story is that a detective landed a killer in prison prior to the events of the movie. The killer (Alex Harris) escapes by the time the film starts and is now hunting the detective's son (Alex McNally) and the detective has to save his son from the killer. While not stated outright, the backstory is hinted at during the short film. Specifically, with the whiteboard in the killers hideout.  For instance, the left side of the whiteboard shows a picture of the detective (Alex McNally with a hat and fake moustache) a line between the detective and the half picture of the son, (meaning that there's a link between the two characters) and a school (the sons location) the killer wrote "bad" next to the picture of the detective, meanin

For the Horror film: Hide and Seek,  Editing was req[uired to turn the raw footage into something relatively filmworthy. Here, I'll go over what editing was used in the films production. Keep in mind that most of the editing was sound-based, or simply cutting scenes out. 1: First of all, in this shot here, the screen fades from the Alexander Films logo into the first scene where McNally picks up the newspaper. The fade and the school bell sound that occurs before the fade-transition both had to be edited in post-filming. 2: Next, we have our first scene of the outdoors. While this screenshot does not show it, the sound of a knife scraping can be heard during this scene, as foreshadowing of future events. The same applies here. 3: In the above scene, the knife sharpening can be heard again as well as some creepy music, increasing build-up. This continues with cuts to the student walking through the halls and cuts back with the music getting louder, until the camera