The document discusses conventions used in the student's thriller film project. It begins with an overview of common thriller conventions like suspense, action, and red herrings. The student's film employs masculine conventions as there are no female characters. It uses enigma codes by starting with an unexplained body and cliffhangers to generate questions. Jump cuts create confusion for the character and audience. Close-ups of the body hide its identity through shots starting at the feet. The opening is analyzed using Roland Barthes' theory of enigmas and found to introduce a problem like a generic thriller. It is similar to the film "Brick" which also starts with a body and hides its face. No conventions were challenged as the film focuses

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
EVALUATION QUESTION 1

2. CONVENTIONS OF THE THRILLER GENRE.
• In a thrillers there are lots of types of conventions that make are
in the thriller genre. These conventions are suspense, action,
fast pace editing, enigma codes, McGuffins, protagonist and
antagonist / hero and villain, red herrings, cliffhangers gender
and many more.
• These thriller conventions are what makes up a thriller film. For
example red herrings, what a red herring is in a thriller, a device
or an object that keeps the audience away from the truth of
something else that may be going on in the film.

3. CONVENTIONS THAT I USED IN MY THRILLER.
• The conventions that I have used in my film are masculinity, the reason for this is because
there are no females which are shown, which makes masculine, use of enigma codes this
is because a problem has been introduced from the start of our film, the first thing that
you see is a body lying on the floor, this straight away gets people questioning, how did
the body get there? What happened? What’s the real situation? Questions that will keep
an audience keep watching. There was also a use cliffhangers which go back to the
questions that a audience would ask, how did the characters get into that situation? Jump
cuts were used in our thriller, this is to show the confusion of the character and then also
get the audience to empathies with the character with there confusion. There was a use of
close up shots of the body lying on the floor starting from the body's feet, the reason for
this is to hide the identity of the body, there is music in the background to indicate that
something has happened and that there isn't a solution yet.

4. • I have looked at my final thriller opening, I can apply the theory
of Roland Barthes enigmas, having applied the the theory
Roland Barthes I can see my thriller opening is a generic film.
• The reason why I can apply Roland Barthes theory, is because
we introduce the opening of the thriller with a problem, this is
foreshadowing the rest of the problems which will happen in the
rest of the film.

5. COMPARISON WITH MY FILM TO A REAL FILM
• The start of my thriller opening is similar to the the start of a thriller called Brick. The
reason why its so similar because in both films, we are trying to hide the identity of the
body which is lying on the floor. The way both films do this is by start of by the legs.
• I have not challenged any conventions in my film, the reason for this is because it is a
masculine thing, all males have problems in between each other.
OUR FILM (CATCH 45) BRICK