Evaluation Question 1

In what way does you media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Within our opening sequence we didn’t wish to challenge the conventions of a thriller genre in a way that our target audience may not gather what genre our movie is.

In a way we did ever so slightly challenge the conventions because our thriller wasn’t the typical kind of one you would usually see, instead of the typical one where somebody gets kidnapped or attacked we decided to look at other successful thrillers which are not directly associated with that, so in this case we decided to make ours about obsession with a slight twist which we hope will surprise and catch the audience out when watching it to keep them satisfied at all time throughout.

I will use these four screenshots of our actually opening sequence I will use to best describe the conventions we used in our thriller.

Screenshot 1:

The first screen shot consists of our victim laying on the floor dead, this is an example of our opening sequence not challenging the typical conventions of a thriller because the majority of thriller always seem to have a murder and we decided to add this because it was one of the obvious conventions which enabled the audience to understand that this is a thriller, we decided to put this shot very near to the beginning of our sequence to create mystery and suspense which is used more often than not within a thriller and even some films outside the thriller genre.

Screenshot 2:

The second screenshot is of our victim being held by the arm by our villain, within this frame our group also decided to follow the codes and conventions of a thriller, the villain is a female which is one of the most important codes usually seen in all thriller movies, this is due to the fact that women are usually seen as objects who cant fend for themselves in dangerous and risky situations.

Screenshot 3:

Within this frame we decided to do an over shoulder shot where only the victim is seen but the person with their back to us which is the villain is not revealed at that moment in time, these makes the audience suspicious and desperate to find out who that is, what is going on and why this is happening, so a lot of question are being asked which get revealed in the film.

Screenshot 4:

This is one of the ways our opening sequence only slightly challenges the conventions of a thriller, we use a chalkboard font which in the scenario we have in the opening sequence creates a depressing scenario which plays with the emotions of the audience. It also in a sense creates a bit of mystery as to why this black and white font is used for this kind of opening sequence, we did it to mix things up and not create the typical opening sequences the audience has seen many time before, this will keep the audience engaged and wary as to what is happening at all times.