As you may know, postmodernism covers a broad range of topics from within a media text. Our piece itself could be considered postmodern due to the conventions that we have copied from other popular films. A large part of how we did this was by looking at various other media texts and researching how they were used and their effects.
Research was a large part of our planning stage, giving us the typical conventions that were used and how well they were executed in either representing the genre, or the scene itself. From this, we had extracted the information and applied it to our own media piece, which arguably was given a more professional look. With postmodernism in mind, we can apply its concepts to our finished piece and see how it follows the conventions. A good example is the lighting we had opted for, especially in the kitchen. As can be seen in the final few shots, the kitchen's lighting reflected the dark mood that the scene had tried to create. This 'effect' has been used time and time again in other horror/thriller films to reflect upon the thoughts and feelings of the individual in danger. Placed over the top we had music which built up to be suspenseful in the final few shots where these dangers culminated - effective in any piece which tries to develop the same sense of danger.
These are only a couple of examples, however you can see how they've used over and over again meaning we've been unoriginal in creating our piece. Theorists debate such points where they question whether postmodernism truly exists or not. Films are a bricolage of ideas (Many of the same concepts used to create something different; something new) so does unoriginality exist or deeper still, postmodernism?
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