The document provides an evaluation of how the media product uses, develops or challenges conventions of typical thriller/horror genres. It compares the elements used in the media product, such as titling style, camera movements, shots, angles, mise-en-scene, editing techniques, sound, and narrative theory, to conventions found in well-known thriller/horror films. The evaluation indicates the media product developed some conventions to better suit its target audience while also challenging conventions in other elements to subvert audience expectations of the genres.

1. EVALUATION – QUESTION ONE
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My Product Typical Thriller/Horror My Production – use, Comparison to Existing
Conventions develop or Products
challenge?
Titling – Font normally used: Courier Font used: Adobe Horrors and thrillers like
colour, font Font colour used: Red Arabic (Regular) misery/secret window/
and style (blood/danger/anger/love) Font colour: White 12monekys
Font style: on screen, pause and (No death)
fade out Font style: Typewriter
(Help build suspense)
We developed this, as
the normal titling
wouldn’t fit with our
finished product.
Camera Establishing shot at the beginning No establishing shot or Psycho: uses an
Movement- to show location. zoom in to show establishing shot to show
pan, track, Zoom in after establishing shot to location as we location then zooms in to
crab, crane point out victim. subverted the horror show victim.
genre and decided to
get straight into the
film by an introduction
of the characters.
Framing a Framing shot normally used: a Shots Used: medium Seven: starts with medium
shot medium shot to help show victims, shot, close up, low shots of protagonist.
ECU, CU, MS, protagonist, and antagonist. angle shot, high angle
LS, ELS shot, low level shot,
zoom in.
We used this idea as it
helped the audience
realise who might be a
victim.
Camera Angle From killers view: high angle to High angles and low Seven: uses a low angle
High, Low show vulnerability of victim. angles were used to shot to show the authority
From victim view: low angle to show victims and and power the protagonist
show authority of killer. weakness. has.
We used this idea
again as it helped
establish characters.
Mise-en- Dull remote/isolated location to Bathroom/Bedroom Misery: uses a room, which
Scene show that the victim has no chance are isolated areas as it with just him by himself in it
of surviving or escaping what is is only one person in showing that he is isolated
about to happen to him/her. each location. Showing from everyone one else
the person is alone like a victim in a
and there is no horror/thriller film.
escape.
We developed this
idea as it helped suit
our target audience.

2. Editing – jump Fast editing normally used when Match cuts to show a Seven: gives the audience
cuts, match something is about to happen to continuous story. a quick image of what has
cuts, reverse help build suspense. Reaction Shots to happened in the beginning
shots, cutting Editing used at the beginning of show when something and what is going to
rhythm the movie is fluid to help unsettle happened. happen later on.
the audience before something Cutting rhythm used to
happens. help establish the
story.
So used this idea as
we decided to kind of
stick to the
horror/thriller ways.
Sound Dark/Eerie sounds used to help Subverted the normally Psycho: uses dark eerie
create tension and also unsettle thriller music and went music in the begging to
the audience. for more general music make the audience
to make the audience uncomfortable.
feel comfortable before
tension starts to build
and this again helped
show who our target
audience was.
Narrative Roland Barthes – Enigma Codes Roland Barthes – Scream: Todorov
Theory Tsvetan Todorov-Equilibrium Enigma Codes. All starts with an
Levi-Strauss- Binary Opposition We crated a mystery equilibrium but then loses
Vladimir Propp for the audience to try balance as the film moves
and figure out. on.