The document discusses conventions used in thriller genres and provides examples of conventions used in the author's thriller film. Key conventions discussed include suspense, fast pacing, cliffhangers, enigma codes, and masculinity. The author analyzes how their film applies conventions such as an opening scene with an unknown body on the ground and cliffhangers to engage the audience and establish mystery. The opening of the author's film is compared to the film "Brick," which also starts with an obscured body to hide its identity from viewers.

2. CONVENTIONS OF THRILLER GENRE
• Firstly, within a thriller there are plenty of different types of conventions
that are used within the thriller genre. Examples of these
conventions could be suspense, fast pace editing, enigma codes, action,
McGuffins, red herrings, cliffhangers, gender, protagonist and
antagonist/ hero and villain ETC.
• Overall the thriller conventions are the key elements within the thriller
itself. An example of this could be cliffhangers. A cliffhanger is used
within a thriller it is used to make the audience want to watch more of
the film. As well as, a cliffhanger is used to make the audience confused
and excited for the rest of the film. A cliffhanger will be used in all films
that have another part to it, for example: the hunger games has more
than one film and to carry on each film there must be some sort of
cliffhanger right at the end of the film to make the audience want to
watch the next one.

3. CONVENTIONS THAT I WE USED IN OUR
THRILLER.
• The conventions that I have used within my film are the following:
masculinity. The reason in which we used this is because there are
absolutely no females that are used. Therefore, this makes our media
product masculine. Furthermore, enigma codes. This is due to the fact that a
problem has been introduced from the start of our film as the first thing that
you will spot within or media product is a body lying on the ground. Straight
away this gets people thinking about how the body got there. As well as, the
audience will want to know if the body is dead or alive. Likewise, the
audience will be questioning there selves what’s the situation? Additionally,
there was a use of a cliffhanger which goes back to the questions that an
audience would ask there selves how did the characters get into that
situation? Correspondingly, a jump cuts were used in our thriller. This is to
indicate the confusion of the character and then this will also get the
audience to empathies with the character on the floor beginning with the
body’s feet. The reason for this is because it hides the body’s identity as you
cannot see the body’s face in which this makes the audience want to know
who’s body it is. The music which is playing in the background is being
played to indicate that something bad has happened and there is no answer
to what the problem is just yet.

4. OVERALL
• I have scanned through my final thriller opening. After view my final
media product I am happy to say that we have applied the theory of
Roland Barthes enigmas having applied the theory of Roland Barthes I
can see that our media thriller product opening is a generic film/movie.
• The reason in which I am able to apply Roland Barthes theory is
because we introduce the opening of the thriller with absolutely no
problem. This is known as foreshadowing the rest of the problems
which will happen within the rest of the film/movie.

5. IN COMPARISON WITH OUR FILM TO A REAL
FILM
• The beginning of our media product it is very similar to the start of the
film/movie called brick. The reason in which it is similar is because in
both films both of the body’s identity's are hidden. The way in which
both films do this is by starting of the scene by the legs of the body’s.
• All in all, we have not challenged any conventions in our media product.
This is because it is a masculine thriller scene and all of the males have
issues in between each other. On the other hand brick contains a
females body on the floor rather than in our media product were a male
is on the floor.
Our media product (Catch
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Brick