Conventions and Social Groups

Our Film, "Point of No Return," we use the found footage convention used by such horror movies as "The Blair Witch Project," "Paranormal Activity," and "Troll Hunter." We used this convention in our film, as we thought it would look more natural than attempting to record a full blown "movie," as we did not have to the equipment required. Furthermore, as found footage films were some of my favorites because of how creative they were, this was an obvious choice. I love this choice as it provides a sense of realism to the film, like this actually could have happen and leaves events like this occurring open to interpretation from the audience.

Our film tackles the issue of people getting way over their heads in a dangerous situation. This is mostly caused by social media, peer pressuring kids into surpass expectations in an effort to "go viral". This brainwashes kids into wanting to do anything in their power to become popular. This can be seen through mass media such as Snap Chat and or Instagram: trends such as "Kiki do you love me" where people would get out of their moving vehicle to dance beside it while Drakes' song plays. This put many kid's lives' in danger, resulting in many injuries as they would do it on active streets. Not only that, but it also proves the social idea that anything you see on the internet is real, as long as you have "proof". Such as the new "Momo" challenge where it was believed that kids were committing suicide after being told to by "Momo", which has now been proven to be a hoax.