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

Our foundation project, “Pulse”, is released at the beginning of 2009, directed by Jamie Hajigeogiou. This is a horror film that involving the central chanter being a psychotic member who prays on the innocent victims, mainly female, that later on one victim will destroy him. It begins of a mid shot from a girl, lying on a bed in an old and dark kitchen, connected with a heart monitor. Her dress is torn up, her body is covered with mud and she is unconscious. Then a middle-aged man, in an operating coat, goes into the room. After him walking out, the girl wakes up and get scared as she does not know where she is and being lonely. Hearing the sound in the room, the man walks back in and as soon as the girl sees the middle-aged man, a series of chasing sequence in the wood where the man tried to catch her comes up in her through a flashback. The girl starts panicking and shouting with a screwdriver. He raises his hand and starts stabbing her several times. Then the heart monitor goes off indicating she’s dead. The man walks out with blood on his dress and mask. This will lead to the next part of the film.

Our production project is typically a “Western/American horror movies” as the mains conventions of contemporary of ours are similar to the typical horror films such as using female as victims in vulnerable situations with a male protagonist killing her by a frightening weapon (the screwdriver) at an isolated location, in a large and empty old houses where it’s likely to be impossible to get help from the outside. We also constructed our project to be more frightened as fear; death and violence are all coming likely to be in a row after a very long duration of silence and slow moving scene. To get this done, we did several researches in order more information on how they successfully achieved to represent their idea.

Our influence is mainly from Saw as the most of the main themes we used for our project are from Saw. In Saw I (2004), directed by James Wan, there is a stabbing scene of a guy was made to stab another one in order to get a key from his stomach. The iconography of the stabbing scene looks horrible and describes the protagonist as a psycho. Thus, by having such this scene in our project, we can easily show one of the main premises of the content of our film such as psychotic. Also, in every single Saw, we can learn that the victims always wake up in an isolated room in a large and old house. This would create immediately the lonely and lost feeling of the main character from a place where we all do now know. Additional, in Saw, sexual equality is nothing. Female are taken and killed as horrifically as male does. To have a total psychotic who kills woman or man terribly as in Saw, this constructs a more atrocious protagonist in our film.

Our male protagonist appears likely a doctor. Here we tried to challenge the fact that doctor, who is always supposed to help/cure people generally, is a psychotic. At first, the audiences cannot know if the doctor is a good or a bad person as he seems to be taking care of her and he shows no sign of going to kill the girl. When it comes to the part that he stabs her horrifically, it completely goes against the idea of doctor “being an omniscient to help people”. This will therefore help us to exhibit our main themes of a psychotic killing people.