1. In What Ways Does Your Media
Product Use, Develop Or Challenge
Forms And Conventions Of Real
Media Products?

2. Genre – Thriller
Codes and Conventions
• Lots of shadow
• Low lighting
• Quick cuts to speed up pace and increase tension
• Flashbacks to show what’s happened previously
• Tense soundtrack
• Mysteries in need of being solved
• Element of realism in locations, plot et cetera
• Twists towards the end

3. Thriller Introductions
From analysing various thriller introductions, I
found out there appear often within them. For
instance, there is always the set-up to the rest
of the film. Either within establishing a
character flaw or setting up an Enigma Code
that the rest of the film will aim to answer

4. Mise-En-Scene and Camera Angles
• Obstructing Camera Angles – hides things
from view
• Low lighting
• Weapons
• Familiar safe environment to establish false
sense of security or dark, gritty, unclean areas
to show it’s not a nice place

5. Editing and Soundtrack
• Quick paced editing to create a frantic
atmosphere or very slowly paced to build up
tension in the scene
• Tense soundtrack that works with what’s on
screen to set the viewer up for the film

6. Glass Jaw Analysis
Mise-en-scene
• Desolate locations – dirty places
• Bright lighting generally
• Alcohol/drugs
• Assassination carried out
• Enigma code created at the end of the film
Editing/Soundtrack
• Tense music
• Quick editing during the fight, slower during the introduction

7. How Does Glass Jaw Conform To Codes
and Conventions In Other Thriller Films
• Tense music that rises and falls with the action
on screen
• Enigma code established
• Quick editing
In these ways Glass Jaw conforms to the
Thriller norm and fits with possibly the most
important part of Thrillers which is the
creation of the Enigma Code.

8. Ways Glass Jaw Challenges Aspects of
Thrillers
• Usually bright lighting – middle of the day
– This is to fit in with our plot since gypsy fights are
not usually at night and also challenging the
thriller genre in that darkness doesn’t necessarily
mean a lack of information, being ‘in the
dark’, and having this brightness in the shot
reverses that stereotype

9. Is It Easy To Tell This Is Part of A Thriller
Film?
• Yes, I think it sticks pretty solidly to the codes
and conventions of a normal Thriller film
• There is a little deviation from that genre
which in some cases is bad, but in the case of
Glass Jaw I deem it to be good so that it’s not
too messy and all over the place