Evaluation Question 1 update

1. Evaluation
1 In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventionsof real media
products?
Before starting our Thriller opening we did research into a variety of areas relating to thrillers.
Specifically we looked into aspects of Conspiracy and political thrillers as this was the specific thriller
genre we were wanting our thriller to be.
Conspiracy thriller - Protagonist must confront a large, powerful
organization whose threat only he sees. The protagonist usually must
do this alone.
Political Thriller - Political relation or the whole government is at stake.
The protagonist is employedby the government to stop the decline.
Protagonist – Usually has a problem or is sent on a mission to solve a
mystery.
Antagonist – Enemyof the protagonist and responsible for the danger
of the protagonist.
Iconography - The usual icons of thrillers are guns and other types of
weaponry. In later years of thrillers blood and screams also plays a
part in the iconography.
Setting – Most common thriller settings are shady inner city areas with a variety of background
sounds suchas cars, shouting and rainfall and scenesoften include violence.
1.1 Research impacting ideas
Before the production of our film we
researchedfamous thriller films and past
students films. We looked at two film in detail:
Gone girl and
Se7en. The
main influence
out of the two
was Gone girl
due to the way
it presents its titling as it’s so simple and yet has sucha chilling effect
on the viewer. From this we thendecided to use this in our thriller
My Gone girl research
Runner Title sequence

2. to cause similar effects. From se7en although we liked the montage aspects of the title sequence we
decidedit would not fit with the style of our film and so stuck
with Gone Girl. In class we looked at past students work.
Particularly we liked an aspect from this students thriller titled
PENUMBRA. At the end of their thriller they show a flashback of
a girl being murdered to fill in a gap of information. Although we
didn’t end up directly using the flashback feature we did give use
the clip at the beginning of our thriller of the passing of a memory
stick to give the audience more information. We also like the
Thriller titled TORN as it
used its score to narrate the actions with in the scene,for
example the music quietening as he finishes cutting the doll.
Our music emphasized certain aspects of our thriller for
example the begging of the chase scene and the build up
towards the fight and final shot.
1.2 Conforming to conventions
In a fewways our thriller did conform to conventions of both types of thriller. In terms of a political
thriller our protagonist was employed by the government to stop hackers from leaking information
which would destroy it. This is supported due to a
‘shifty’ phone call to a mystery person at the
beginning of our opening which is quite common in
the political thriller genre.
1.3 Rejecting conventions
1.4 Narrative theory
Narrative theory can very muchbe applied to our product in several aspects.