The document discusses how a media product used, developed, and challenged forms and conventions of real thriller media. It states that conventions like dark corners and shadows were used to achieve a supernatural thriller genre. The editing developed these forms by using dim lighting and a cellar setting to create a mysterious atmosphere. While most thriller conventions were not included, like mcguffins and action, the goal was to build intrigue through atmosphere rather than adhere strictly to conventions.

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

2. Use of forms and conventions
When creating our media piece, we tried to use the general
forms and conventions of thrillers as much as possible.
During the planning and research stage, we started to look
into the different types of thriller conventions and forms and
what the best rated thrillers contained, we felt that using real
media (thriller) products would help us to gain more
knowledge of the genre, pick up on some more information
of what different forms and conventions of thrillers that there
is, and help us develop a thriller product at the best of our
ability. To achieve this we created moodboards which
consisted of pictures, we created a wordle to show some of
the features we already knew and also ones that we had
discovered during our research. When filming our product,
we used conventions such as dark corners, shadows etc,
and to make our genre of thriller a supernatural one.

3. Developing our media forms and
conventions.
We went on to develop the forms and conventions of our
media product when we got to the editing stage of the whole
process. We decided to play on the dark corners/shadows
convention of a thriller and make it so the whole product had
dim lighting in the background, to try and give our piece a
more grim and gritty feel from the beginning. We also took
advantage of the setting of our thriller, which we were lucky
enough to use; using the cellar as the background scenery
helped us create the kind of mysterious supernatural vibe we
wanted the audience to feel when watching our opening.
Throughout most of our product you will witness key forms
and conventions, we tried to develop them so they were
more obvious, helping the audience to understand what type
of opening they are watching; helping them to establish the
genre of the opening, to which they would begin to question
what could possibly come next.

4. How our media product challenged
forms and conventions.
Although we tried to stick to most thriller conventions that we
knew and we were familiar with, we did not include some
conventions that most thrillers do tend to include such as
mcguffins, suspense, action, mirroring etc. we felt that the
style of thriller we were trying to achieve did not need these
conventions and forms included in the opening sequence.
When researching into thrillers, we came across certain
thrillers which had most of these conventions in the first 2
minutes; however we wanted to create more of an
atmosphere and decided to focus more on how to keep the
audience interested, how to begin to build questions in the
audience’s heads and how we were going to include
conventions and forms which we felt were more important to
include when creating a thriller opening.