This document discusses several generic conventions and challenges of thrillers that the filmmakers considered in their short film. They prioritized including suspense and tension through a stalker voyeuristically watching the main character. Their psychotic stalker character was difficult to portray within the short time constraints. The filmmakers also challenged the convention of only having male detectives by not including strong male characters or actors. They ultimately titled their film "The Hunted" because audience feedback suggested it sounded creepy and precise for the stalker character. The main prop of a phone was used to create significance and foreshadowing. Practical location issues forced changes to the originally planned setting of filming across from houses, but the new woodland location still fulfilled thriller

1. 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 that's why we didn't 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 psychotic 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 wasn't
practical so we had to adapt our character to be just stalker with our our psycho
characterisation

2. Conventions we challenged
One convention we challenged in our thriller was having no real strong male
character or actors in our film , this to try break the stereotype of the badass male
detective that we generally see for example in series like luther although there are
a few female character the main detective is a male and the resyt of the actors
and actresses ,stand in his shadow

3. Title
We dabbled in a few title names such as FIFi, 12:30, Blindspot , Lakeside...but
when we did our mini pitch the title that received the most positive feedback was
The Hunted , 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
everything she does and if we did make a full film The hunted aspect would of had
great significance throught the film.

4. Prop
Our main prop was inspired from film like Perfect Guy and Taken the phone is
such a iconic prop in many thriller and we wanted to harness its reputation to
create significance , in our opening scene a close up shot of the phone and the
way it is framed,also the dragging of the feet in the background can take from the
significance we tried to portray 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 majority did so maybe we could improve that

5. setting
Our setting did have to change because the location we found was not practical to
film in due to public disturbance . The ideal location we wanted had to change,
due to 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 as she gets ready to go jog before he goes to
kill her to give some substance to the killing but we didn't 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 the wood where she jogs (Black Park) and
the stalker not seen until killing her from behind. Our new location fulfilled our
thriller needs in creating mystery and suspense.

6. location

7. 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.