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

Within pre-production myself and my group all suggested some genre ideas and themes that we would have preferred to  incorporate which  both subverted or converted to the norms within whats shown within films. We all suggested that for the genre a psychological-thriller would be more in our interest. Therefore from our group work we were able to narrow down the possible genres and settled for our genre to be a 'psychological-thriller' as we all were in favour for this.  A psychological thriller is thriller story which emphasizes the psychology of characters that tend to have allot of prevalence and their emotional instability. Additionally in terms of classification, the category is a sub-genre of the thriller category. From this we researched into what's common within psychological-thrillers and found that they mainly have non-linear narratives, have a dissolving sense of reality, moral ambiguity and complexity within relationships between obsessive and pathological characters. This also focus upon the emotional state of a certain individual that has experienced some kind of mental illness, mental break down, physical out of boy experience or has experienced criminal insanity.  This helped shaped out narrative vastly as we were able to understand what would attract the target audience and how we could class the genre as a psychological thriller.

Within the beginning of the film, it focuses on the use of flashbacks and a montage of shots which are to infer that the story is from the emotional consciousness of Sister Judith. Therefore we felt that a non-linear narrative would be vastly realistic as the mind is naturally fragmented and sometimes can dissolution it's subject into believing that something is reality when really its just an imagination of the human mind. The relationship between sister Judith and father Abraham we feel  foreshows emotional instability, as both characters are some what mentally unstable, or have been socialised into traditional norms. As sister Judith feels attracted to females more than she does males.
Due to her being brought up within a heteronormative ideology she  feels she is somewhat not blessed and therefore she seeks guidance within Father Abrahams church. Within this she is romantically  attracted to sister Mary rather than father Abraham( which he assumes she is attracted to him seen as he realises he is blessed with holy looks and has added to his ego.). The complexity within this relationship troubles all counterparts and offers much ambiguity to whether sister Judith does find Father Abraham or if she feels vulnerable due to her troubled past.  

screen shot from the part of the montage at the beginning

screen shot from the part of the montage at the beginning

screen shot from the part of the montage at the beginning

The montage at the beginning is accompanied by a childs laughter and  a childs melody, which is typically sung by a parent or guardian, as well as the sound of the incidental no-diegetic church bells that are played in rhythm with the montage of shots.We feel this has captured an eerie but pathological themes, that are traditionally typical of psychological thriller as they connote that there is more to the plot and may leave the viewer intrigued. The non-diegetic sound is also to demonstrate that the prominent themes within the film are a mothers love and the possibility of a child. We initially took this idea from the film; Mama(2013). Which highlighted how the maternal instincts of a mother can lie within someone even when they do or do not have a child. 

Close up of father Abrahams religious iconography(cross). This use of the cross is featured over the title 'purity'. This is to connote how the film will be somewhat centralised around religion.

two shot to capture both sister Mary and Sister Judith who have just been interrupted by father Abraham due to their frequent close encounters 

two shot of sister Judith and father Abraham within the church

Low angle shot of the church windows. This is to connote how the the church has a dominance over the individuals subject to attending it.

poster from the film MAMA: highlighting how the mother(right hand corner) is over protective and her mental stability relies heavily on the child that is not hers.

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The mise-en-scene was an important aspect of out film and to authenticate this we used various religious props such as the cross that father Abrahams is wearing, the religious costumes of the sisters and the father and we also we able to the film in our local church. This was to add more realistic elements to the film and for the viewer to be able to get the most possible engagement that we could offer.