Evaluation Question 1

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

LS29 develop conventions of real media products such as the talking, killer doll concept originally from the Child’s Play franchise. In Child’s play, the doll, Chucky, is brought to life the first time through a serial killer who is being chased by the police after being shot, breaking into a Good Guy doll factory and using voodoo to transfer his soul from his dying body to that of a young child’s doll. Also, in the second Child's Play film, the doll is brought to life through electrocuation and this is a technique that we played around with and tested when producing Red Run. It was however thought that it would be better to leave it out through feedback recieved from rough cuts. You can still watch LS29 Production's original idea of using electrocution to bring the doll to life in a previous rough cut.

In Friday 13th, Jason is also brought back to life via electrocution and Sam and I watched this many times to get an idea as to how it was filmed and directed and we chose to use this media convention in our film opening rough cuts, using similar editing skills where we add sparks and electric like diegetic noises to the video.

Sam and I use this convention as to the extent that it’s a killer doll that’s alive but we also developed the look of the doll. In Child’s Play, Chucky the doll is killed and burnt etc, making him look fiercer and deadlier when he’s brought back to life. Sam and I have used this idea to create our doll’s look with the blood and cuts but we have also added our own features such as the bandage around his arm with blood on, a nail above his eye and one of his eyes gorging out from his skull. All of these features represent pain and possibly torture and overall violence, connoting that someone has attacked the doll and it’s soon revealed that the doll would have been attacked for obvious reasons.

Another existing media product that Sam and I have devoloped in our Media product, Red Run is intertextuality through a class mate's media product, Tiny Terror, produced by Barncasarn. The doll in Red Run is a replica of the killer doll in Tiny Terror, which in Red Run in is a successful, famous film that the main character recognises straight away and quotes "Oh, it's the doll from Tiny Terror", the doll is then brought to life which links in with previous paragraphs.