Our film used several conventions of the thriller genre including mysterious music, a lack of dialogue to build suspense, and positioning the audience on the edge of their seats. We developed camera movements from watching other thrillers, including pans and tracking shots. Photos were included to generate enigmas and mystery around characters and events. The score used string instruments to create a sad and lost atmosphere, a conventional way to reflect emotion in thrillers. The opening challenges thriller conventions by attempting to trick and confuse the audience at first to generate interest in watching more.

1. Evaluation Question 1
In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?

2. The thriller genre is
based around, tension,
excitement and
suspension.

3. My film has used this in various ways;
• Music- using strings, violins and other soft
scary instruments.
• Having no dialogue- withholding information.
• Having the audience on the edge of their
seats, is the main aim of this film.

4. Colour and font style.
Our film followed a number of different
conventions shown by some of the films we’ve
analyzed. One of these conventions used in
our film was to do with out credits and the
fact that they are over black screens, and
some are done so they fit the whole screen,
like ours did and like ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
compared to the credits.

5. Camera movement
We developed our movement ideas from
watching other thriller films that we had all
watched. Most commonly there was pan’s and
tracking movements. So we used these ideas
to plan our scenes and how they would work
together, we panned across the items to give a
jist of what's happening.

6. Mise en scene
The props we used in our thriller films are very
dependant on the story. We only used the
items at the start with no characters so now
costumes.
Editing
We didn’t use a lot of transitions. In a thriller
film they usually use a lot of jump cuts, but we
didn’t follow this convention of a thriller we
used cross-dissolves as it is not just a thriller.

7. Sound
We didn’t use very much dialogue in out film as
we agreed that it was more effective if we
used a soundtrack, as that means that the
audience would be more focused on the
images rather than listening to a voice, that
why we have just used it at the end,

8. Still 1:
Hidden identity
Element of mystery;
who’s Hannah?
Use of sound to create atmosphere:
Conventionally in thrillers, the score reflects a
character or an emotion. In the score we made
we used loads of stringed instruments, to give a
sad, lost effect.

9. Still 2 and 3:
The creation of enigmas:
Photos add the conventional mystery to the thriller,
immediately creating enigmas:
Who’s the girl? Who’s the boy? How important are they
to the film narrative?

10. Still 4:
Creation of
mystery:
Developing thriller
convention of
elements of
mystery.
Who’s is the car?
Why is it there?
What’s happened?

11. Still 5:
Sense of mystery:
The audience should
hopefully be asking
questions like:
Who’s written the
diary?
Why have they
written the diary?
What’s been 10
years?

12. There are many conventions
shown in thrillers through
different techniques and these
were just a few that we used
and showed in our film; ‘The
Last Rose’.

13. The opening of my movie
challenges real media products
because it uses new ideas for how
the genre of a thriller movie should
start by attempting to trick and
deceive the audience at first then
slightly confuse them to make
them wonder what’s happening
and want to watch on.