2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? The thriller in which we produced incorporates a number of different conventions outlining what genre it falls into, as soon as the audience witness the opening scene. Throughout the opening, representations of typical thriller scenes are developed, twanged with independent ideas from the group and myself, such as flashbacks of the victims eye, and the build up of the assassin secretly behind the door. We incorporated our own sound effects of screaming of the victim, the tap running vigorously and the panting of the victim too. By having these ideologies shown in the opening, indicates what genre our filming fits into being a physiological thriller. Conventions from other thrillers fall into our work you could say, as many have been used already an example of this would be the typical male stalker obsessed with the female victim, and then leading onto death or torture, however with our own ideas of mise en scene and camera skills we have with an effective storyline to overcome the cliché of other texts. Also by researching other thriller films such as Signs and Phsyco (on my blog) this gave me an understanding of what a successful film is like, therefore by looking at the timing on each shot and hearing when the sound comes in at the appropriate time, really made me think how precise all these elements had to be in order for a effective opening.
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4. Although this may not have adjusted our group’s grade and it wasn’t a major point to why our work wasn’t the best, I feel that if we did direct her as an actor to be more terrifying this would have made the opening very scary. The environment had two effects in our film. The first environment in which we shot in was inside the house, where it’s dark and a door is hiding the view of what we want to see. After this shot we follow on to see the environment in which is outside in a dark wooded area blocked off from anyone and anything. The environment inside is clean, tidy and a positive atmosphere indicating a careless attitude from the villain, which we want the audience to gain an understanding of. However outside the environment is messy, dark, enclosed with many trees, creating a sense of disturbance and claustrophobia illustrating danger and eerie sensations. We felt the social groups of teenagers and youth ages today had to be demonstrated through the use of costume, innocent dialogue and props; this would then connect a variety of audiences to our filming. Due to society nowadays there is a lot of crime taken place by young people. Older generations of audience would look upon ours and gain a different view on them as many issues aren’t raised by the fact of younger people killing other people due to jealousy and obsession of that particular person. We don’t want people to watch this and think that teenagers are a bad influence to modern society but different personalities I think would be intrigued to watch this. However some audiences may watch our opening and think this is not for them and that maybe they might be interested in made up issues not issues that may concern future preference, as people will not only be interested to see a film which contained their style, but the personalities present in the film, are quite common in teenagers in today's society, and so some viewers may be interested to see how each character copes with the issues risen within the film.
