Evaluation 1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Looking at our film and poster I would say that our product doesn't challenge the normal conforms of surrealism but instead follows it. 
I looked at Alice's Nightmare which really gave me the inspiration for the tea party scene, however I feel I progressed this concept by making the other guests dolls which had been experimented on by the girl. I was also very inspired by The Killing Joke by Sebastian Lopez I liked the way only a soundtrack was used and some key dialogue such as the Jack in the Box laughing, 02:00, I feel that we used this directly in conjunction with our film which uses more dialogue but only sentences instead of actual conversations. I also liked the quality of the picture, I decided to further this when it came to my media product as I wanted to create a more surreal effect as opposed to vintage, I did this by manipulating each image separately because of this I found that the quality changed on each one as it was impossible to edit over one thousand pictures the exact same way. I feel this furthered the surrealism edge of our film in comparison to The Killing Joke.

Below is my final film with annotations 

Because we decided to mostly conform to the surrealist genre I was able to look at my work and how that compared to other surrealist texts, posters and films.

Alice In  Wonderland

I began looking at Alice in Wonderland as I liked the surrealism used. I particularly liked the Mad Hatters Tea Party as it was something quite normal and classed as "boring" turned into something interesting and surreal. I knew I wanted to in-cooperate the surrealism of something quite mundane into my film. I began writing a piece which involved a "tea party" scene, I wanted     it to resemble the Mad Hatters Tea Party as I wanted my character to relate to the film and want her own tea party. I feel that this really worked as Alice in Wonderland is something most children grow up with enabling my character to revert back to her childhood. I also liked the way  Alice in Wonderland is a film for young children but is still disturbing and very  surreal.

Sight and sound

When it came to the review I wanted it to look as authentic as possible for this I tried to copy the   template as much as possible. I knew that my short film is very surreal compared to the films Sight and Sound review in the front of the magazine so decided to model my review on the ones listed towards the back of the magazine. With the review I felt it had to follow the normal conforms as it is something that will be published in a well established magazine. 

Posters

After looking at some surreal posters I knew that as it was surreal no surreal poster was the same, because of this Yasmin was free to do what she felt was surreal. Although she did what she wanted for the poster Yasmin still showed she had some inspiration from the research I had done. Pictured above is a poster both an established surreal film and our film. As you can see Yasmin was inspired by the disfiguration of human limbs onto toys/objects which also references to Hans Bellmars work.

The Killing Joke

After looking at the Killing Joke I realised that I wanted to use the same type of make up as clowns are once again, like Alice in Wonderland, linked to child-hood. I decided that rather than having full clown make-up to make my make up colourful and playful. My make-up I feel reverts the character to a child again as it's something most young girls do, play with their mothers make up.  The killing joke also inspired me to have more suspense in my film. In terms of cinematography I was once again inspired by the Killing Joke and other surrealist films, I wanted to use jolted movements, high angle and low angle shots to make the film seem more menacing.