Anelka

1. In what way does your
media product use,develop
or challenge conventions of
a real product .

2. Generic Conventions
Suspense and tension is one convention of a thriller that is needed in all thrillers
so we made this a priority , when coming to come up with our plot, some of our
ideas missed this concept and thats why we didnt choose them , the way we
achieved the suspense and tension was from the voyeuristic feel of our film the
fact that someone is watching and stalking you and you completely oblivious to it.
Another generic convention we thought was key was a pyscotic character/ stalker
but we was leaning more physco and obsessive stalker but this was hard to
achieve as in too minute to create the character we wanted to portray wasnnt
paractical so we had too adapt our ch`aracter to be just stalker with our our
physco characterisation

3. Title
We dabbled in a few title names such as FIFi, 12:30, Blindspot ...but when we did
our mini pitch the title that recieved the most positive feedback was 9:30, the
audience said it gave a more creepy sound to it and it sounded more precise just
like our character in the film, the stalker is meant to know eveything she does and
if we didmake a full film 9:30 would of had great significance

4. Prop
Our main prop was inspired from film like Perfect Guy andTaken the phone is
such a iconic prop in many thriller and we wanted to harness its reputation to
create significance , in our opening scene our female reciee a text message
nothing creepy or scary but the close up of the shot of the phone and the way it is
framed suggest something else giving it a sense a of foreshadowing which i think
we tried to give off, obviously some viewer didnt see it like that when editing but
majorit did so maybe we could improve that

5. setting
Our setting did have to change beca
Use of the practicality of our first idea, in our first idea we sought to have the
stalker watch from a distance from his house across the road and film from both
perspectives hers and the stalkers but we didnt know anyone that had access to
two house opposite each other and our neighbours were not to fond of the idea,
so we had to adapt with the adaption, we found it hard to change the story abit but
we handled it with care so our base ideas and conventions were not lost in the
transition.We changed to just one house and the stalker filming outside the house
in unusual places and in the females blindspot.

6. Costume
For costume we didn't plan it to much we told our actress to where what she would
in the house if she was to maybe go out ,because we wanted to create a
closeness with the audience and create a sense of realism in our thriller not
something that was imaginative and fantasised but something that could happen if
your not paying attention, problems we faced with this was our actress done her
hair so when filming on the second day we had to make sure the outfit matched
and her hair was done the same which proved time consuming when it came to
filming on that day.