The document discusses how the opening scene of a media product builds tension and suspense through the use of camera shots. It describes how cutting between shots of the main character getting ready and a body on the bed leaves the audience unsure if the body is alive or dead. Changing between these shots and showing the body in more or less detail creates questions for the viewers and tension around what happened. An over-the-shoulder shot of the character looking in the mirror pans to reveal the body under sheets on the bed, shocking viewers into wondering if she injured the person.

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

2.  In almost all thriller movies there are always parts where the story builds tension
and suspense for the audience and in our opening scene i feel like we did create a
lot of tension and suspense throughout the 2 minute scene.

3.  When the main character (Lola) is inside her room getting ready for the day ahead
and the camera suddenly moves to the bed looking towards the body causes
suspense because at this point the audience doesn't know whether they are alive or
dead. Then the shots change again to the girl getting ready then back to the full
length shot of the body. By changing up the camera shots and what combination
we see them in builds tension because we see a quick glimpse of the body then
back at the girl and she is acting like nothing has happened, then suddenly back to
the body where we see it in more detail. This also creates a lot of questions for the
audience about the body and why this situation has occurred.

4.  The over the shoulder shot shows Lola looking blankly into the mirror with no facial
expression and then the camera pans across to the rest of the room and it shows
us the body under the sheets on the bed and this shocks the viewers into thinking
she has injured/killed this person and they want to know why.