This document summarizes how the opening of a student film uses conventions of the psychological thriller genre. The opening establishes the dark tone through the spooky title font with dripping blood. It was filmed in an abandoned hospital wing to resemble isolated settings from films like Shutter Island. Costumes used paint as blood on a villain to create mysteries around how they were injured. Jump cuts were used to disorient the viewer and mirror films like The Silence of the Lambs. Character introductions and close ups of a beaker and danger sign further tease mysteries and questions in the viewer's mind, signaling this is a psychological thriller.

1. Evaluation Part 1

2. In what ways does your media
product use, develop or
challenge forms and
conventions of real media
product?

3. The first frame is of the title. The title is shown in a black
background and the title is red. The font I used reinforces
what type of genre the film is. The font is very spooky and
it has blood dripping down. This foreshadows that during
the film that there will be death and violence. Also the best
red colour on the font sets the tone of the film it gives it a
dark intense atmosphere.

4. The second frame is of the setting/location. We went to king
George hospital and filmed the abandoned part of the
hospital. The location fit our genre perfectly as the story is
based at a hospital. This is similar to the film “Shutter
Island” because it to is based at mental hospital. Also the
“The Shinning” has similar features about the location as
they are both empty dark location. The hospital which we
filmed at looks isolated and it sets the tone of the film
giving it a dark feel to it.

5. The third frame is of costume and props. In this frame we
used paint as blood on the main villain of the film to show
that they have been hurt. As the film is a psychological
thriller we don’t show how the villain is hurt as it creates
enigmas. Questions start to be raised such as how did he
escape? How did he get injured? This links to the genre of
our film because it starts to play with the audiences mind.

6. The fourth frame is of camerawork and editing. In this
frame we used jump cuts to make the villain jump from one
place to another. This helps to portray a psychological
thriller. This is similar to the film “The silence of the lamb”.
This is also a very popular psychological thriller film which
also creates enigmas similar to ours.

7. The next frame is of the title font and style. The title I made
on Photoshop. The font looks dark and spooky. This relates
to the genre of the film and it lets the audience know that
the film will be a psychological thriller.

8. The next frame shows the story and how the opening sets it
up. We have a close up shot of the scientist speaking to the
camera that she has been working on a cure in order to save
the mental patients at the hospital. Also we have another
close up shot of the beaker which show that the scientist has
been working. These shots all relate the genre of the film.
The audience start to wonder and question why her camera
broken and so on is. These all relates to the psychological
thriller genre because the audience all start to ask questions
and wonder what will happen.

9. The seventh frame is of genre and how the opening suggests
it. The frame is a close up of a danger sign on the other side
of the fence and we moved the camera a bit. This shows that
someone is looking through the fence and we don’t know
who it is. The danger sign foreshadows that something bad
will happen to the characters in the film. This fits the genre
because it plays with the audiences mind.

10. In the eight frames it shows how characters are introduced.
We introduced the main character “The Scientist” using a
close up of her talking into the camera. In this clip she
introduces herself and what she doing. This helps the
audience to know what the main character does with this 15
second clip.