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Evaluation question 1
- 1. EVALUATION-QUESTION 1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
- 2. THE GENRE I havechosen to do a Thriller and so I will first tell you what the conventions of a thriller usually are. Low key lighting Grey filter Someone is killed Storylines can be confusing Eerie music is played Dark/dull colours Don’t see the main character face on until later. I have chosen nine frames in my film which I would like to comment on and elaborate how I challenge or conform to the thriller conventions.
- 3. FRAME ONE This frame is in the first scene of opening. As you can see I have chosen to film on a bad day so it isn’t that sunny and rather grey. You can see two characters in the frame the victim who is a man and the killer; who you can’t see the face of but certain aspects imply it’s a woman e.g. long hair. This challenges a very big aspect in a thriller genre, the idea that a woman kills a man isn’t very common and the roles of killer and victim have being reversed. This is because women are seen to be more vulnerable and in need of protection. Because I reversed the roles it challenges this convention.
- 4. FRAME TWO In this frame I have decided to follow the conventions as you can only see the feet of the killer approaching the victim slowly. From the boots you can tell that this person isn’t to be taken lightly, they mean business.
- 5. FRAME THREE In this frame again you cannot see the killer face on but you can see her getting closer. In this shot the gate will crash and the man will turn around this makes it very eerie when there is nothing there. Making it seem more like a thriller.
- 6. FRAME FOUR This frame is just designed to look eerie with the music in the background giving it an extra bit of mystery. The idea of a swing swinging in the wind looks quite frightening as the audience will know that someone or something else is there with the character
- 7. FRAME FIVE Again this frame suggests that there is something else, something unsettling about the way the roundabout is spinning mindlessly by itself. This conforms to the thriller genre
- 8. FRAME SIX In this frame I used a free hand camera to show as though the character is being watched by someone. This creates tension as the advice will expect an intense build up.
- 9. FRAME SEVEN This frame creates a lot of tension as you can see the killer approaching from behind the victim. The next scene is a black screen with the sound of a branch snapping. This implies that the guy has being killed.
- 10. FRAME EIGHT In this frame you can clearly see that the guy is dead and the woman reaches for a box. This is a establishing scene to show that the box is valuable. It still conforms to the thriller genre as you never see her face.
- 11. FRAME NINE Frame nine shows the woman walking away again you cannot see her face. And the whole sequence just feels eerie accompanied with the music. There is no dialogue just so that the audience could make their own assumptions on what just happened.
- 12. Q & A FROM VIEWERS Q-Where you surprised that the A- I guess, you took a different killer was a woman? approach on thriller scene. Q-Did the thriller genre was A- Yeah because the scene where she was leaning on the wall looked a bit established? shady, plus the music gave it a thriller feel. Q-Would you go see the film in A- If it was free. cinemas?
- 13. CONCLUSION Overall I thinkmy media product was a success because it conformed to the some of the conventions to established that it is a thriller genre. But it also brings something new to the table, and perhaps this could give a new look on the whole thriller genre.