1. EVALUATION – QUESTION ONE
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My Product Typical Thriller/Horror My Production – Comparison to
Conventions. use, develop or Existing Products
challenge?
Titling – colour, Traditional and common My film production The conventions of
font and style thriller/horror movies tend is developed and typical thriller movies
to all have red coloured has taken a good compared to my two
titling due to it understanding of minute thriller
symbolisation of blood and the modern thrillers. openings have many
murder. The Font is mainly Analysing and comparisons. The
clear and it presented in big annotating thrillers, colour is similar to
bold writing that has an especially with how the typical style of
effect added to the title titles are used and thriller movies, the
such as the title may presented. The use reason to why my
dissolve or fade in. It is of the typical colour film used this
regularly presented in one red is used in my conventions was due
shot or sometimes in a production due to to the colours and
broken shot. The style of how clearly the representation of the
the title is important and is colour red gives the colour red. The font
normally shown in over the impression of blood was creepy and
scene shot, for example, and murder. Titling changed in motion as
the camera filming a in red sets the I researched in other
remote location and title scene, along with a movies such as
appearing as the scene clear big font. My ‘Thirteen Ghosts’ the
moves forward. The title film used American change in title gives a
has a clever way of Typewriter font that clue or a more scary
representing a key feature challenges other appearance of the
in the film. If the title is thriller titles in a film. Thanks to the
broken and the audience way that allows our modern day thriller
can figure out what is being viewers to read opening, my film
represented, it could show carefully and settle learned and used
a sign of split personality into the film as the many techniques
such as the title in ‘Psycho’. title is being from general thrillers
presented. which helped style
and title my film
appropriately.

2. Camera In typical thrillers camera In our final media In comparison to
Movement- pan, movement and angles, product, we used typical thriller our
track, crab, crane normally tend to begin with two camera a hand final media product
an establishing shot, held camera and a used good camera
maybe of the location or of directors camera, movement as we did
a character. Most thrillers our camera not want to start with
like to use the camera and movement mainly an establishing shot
zoom in to a location or go used was to track but start a track shot
through a window and start characters. We where the character
the film for example, wanted to keep the is holding the camera
‘Secret Window’. Some directors camera and introducing to the
films like to show a track stationary and allow audience who they
shot of a creepy location. the hand held are.
Also several horrors use camera to go with
male killers and use the the characters so
camera to show the killer the audience could
from a low angle shot and feel as though they
show the killer looking are part of what is
down from a high angle going on.
shot on his victims, mainly
females, this is done to
represent the dominance of
the character.
Framing a shot Most films use extreme In our final product In comparison to
ECU, CU, MS, LS, long shots, for example in we used close up typical thrillers my
ELS ‘Halloween’ the director shots, medium shot final media product
likes the audience to see a and long shots. We used a good amount
location or the outside of a started with the of framing shots as
building, there will be close up shot so we wanted to keep a
normally very little detail the audience could clear and good
visible, although it gives the see what the understanding to the
audience a good characters are like. audience of what is
impression of the film. We the used the going on. Similarly
Close up shots are long shot to show a we did use long shots
important, especially when eerie feeling to the but did not use
something has gone wrong audience as the extreme long shots
in a film or a character is camera is picked because we did not
hiding or being silent. up by the killer and want the audience to
Extreme close up shots like zoomed in on all know too much about
to get a good detailed look four characters the characters.
at a character, maybe a from a distance.
shot of an injury or the fear
look in a characters eyes.

3. Camera Angle The high and low camera In our final media In comparison to the
High, Low angles movements are product we did use typical thrillers, Our
combined to create a high angle shot but final media product
sequence of images High not as much due to Did not use too much
angles tend to make the the meaning of high of high angle shots
view smaller, less angle and low and low angle shots
significant, mainly used in angle shots, which because we were
movies where the high are mainly used in focusing on the
angle empowers and thrillers where they females in a forest
belittles a character, such like to get the point with a killer around
as in ‘Secret Window’ the of authority across. them and not on the
character is standing high However we did authority of who is
and tall on the top of his use the low angle more inferior than an
steps commanding his shot where the all another.
maid or speaking down on the characters were
her. Low camera angles being watched by
are mainly used to make the killer from a
short characters look taller. long shot at a low
So the added height on the angle.
character or object on the
screen may add fear and
security to the viewer who
is psychologically
dominated by the figure on
the screen.
Mise-en-Scene The Mise en scene used in In our final media In comparison to
typical thrillers have mainly product we focused typical thrillers our
good low key lighting which and wanted to final media product
helps set the scene, having make sure we got used and took in the
depth in a film and some props and location research of Mise en
thriller change the size or completely correct scene well as we
proportion of the a object In for the setting of wanted good lighting
a film which can be our movie. We and props and made
manipulated through checked the sure the location was
camera placements such weather to make suitable for our
as having a weapon such sure that we could chosen idea.
as a knife being clearly film at a dull dark
visible. light because we
wanted to set our
film with low key
lighting.

4. Editing – jump Typical thrillers use jump In our final media In comparison to
cuts, match cuts, cuts and reverse shots, for production we typical thrillers our
reverse shots, example in 'The Butterfly mainly used cut final media product
cutting rhythmn Effect' used cut shots and shot and also had a did editing well as we
at the beginning uses fade cutting rhythm had to edit from two
in to establish the through the scene different camera. We
atmosphere. The fade in where the character used many jump cuts
introduces the atmosphere is walking away from the characters
and area of the scene and slowly and the and had a cutting
the quick cut shots show scene is cutting rhythm going.
the characters quick from hand held
movement in the scene. camera to directors
camera.
Sound In the films that I have In our final media In comparison to
studied, there are a mixture product, we used typical thrillers our
of sounds such a diegetic similar techniques final media product
and non diegetic sounds as we used diegetic we wanted our sound
used. For example in sound at the to be creepy and
'Secret Window' there is beginning and the scary as all thrillers
use of diegetic sound being non-diegetic sound have good use of
used as the character is we used as our sound.
talking to himself. In the scene was showing
beginning there is non- the forest.
diegetic sound being used
as the location is being
shown.
Narrative Theory Typical thrillers use many In our final media In comparison to
different Narrative theories, product our plot is a typical thrillers our
a famous theory is by Levi typical thriller and final media product
Strauss who believes all we want it to be used a simple way of
stories are based on binary simple but not portraying our story
opposites e.g. Night and simple where it is and probably had a
Day, Black and White, Love easy to figure out Barthes theory.
and Hate. the killer. Our
product may be
more like The
Todorov theory.