We utilized the conventions such as costumes, shots, font and incidental music. In our film we used costumes such as in style fashionable clothing when fitting the characters Ally, Ashley, and Sarah because their characters were popular teenage girls that lived in the area. When focusing on Patty's costume we wanted to portray her character as an antagonist by having her dress in black clothing and put darker makeup under her eyes. This showed a clear difference in lifestyles between Patty and Ally. This also reflected the jealously Patty has for Ally and her best friends because they have nicer and fashionable things that Patty does not have. Ally's outfit included fashionable jeans and a flowy pink shirt, her friends Ashley and Sarah wore similar outfits like jeans and a nice shirt. The outfits all were similar and made Patty's outfit stand out more than theirs because hers was dull and not colorful. In the movie, Hush when focusing on her costume you can tell she is wearing casual in style clothing and when evaluating the antagonist in the film he is wearing darker clothing to indicate a more creepy effect. For our shots, the establishing shot shows the road that both houses are located on. In this shot you can see both Ally and Patty's houses. This shot is important when utilizing the social classes of both Patty and Ally due to house size and the outside appearance of the houses, it also reflects back on jealousy again when it comes to Patty's feelings toward Ally. The two thirds shot was captured of Patty walking in front of her house picking flowers. This shot showed Patty toward the right half of the frame allowing her house to take up much of the shot to show the audience a close up of Patty's current living situation and where she lives which is much different when comparing to Ally's. The mid- shot of Patty walking in Ally's backyard when she was not home shows how Patty is about to go into her house without permission because no one is home and it leads in to her opening the sliding class door. The font we used in the beginning of the film for opening credits was called "DIN Alternate Bold" and it was used to represent Ally's life. The font is slick and formal which compliments Ally's lifestyle. We choose this font due to how well it replicated her character in this film. For incidental music, we used this music in the creepy scary scenes of our film or the scenes where you did not know what to expect next. This music was also used in Get Out and The Quiet Place. These films used the incidental music the same was we tried to portray it in our film. We used this music in the scenes of Patty broke into Ally's house and when she went through her belongings.
When reflecting on issues in social classes and relating that to our film we understood this issue is a real life thing. We know girls in high school that form clicks and "groups". There is also the people that strive to be in one of these groups and that is when jealousy comes into the picture. There is higher and lower classes especially in the school system. The higher classes are looked up upon and lower look down upon as they are stereotyped this way. Ally looks at Patty in a bad way and Patty wants to be Ally and have her life. However, Patty psychologically was obsessed with Ally and took matters too far by messing with her life. When looking at social classes many groups are diversified and this can cause personal problems. When looking at films with female lead roles, the films we looked at such as Sinister and Get Out used males for leading roles. In our film, we used not only a female for a leading role but used a whole female cast in our film. This eliminated gender discrimination when using mainly males in films.
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