Media activity 5

1. HOW DID YOU
ATTRACT/ADDRESS
YOUR AUDIENCE?

2. Genre conventions.
• Our opening uses many conventions of Thrillers. These include:
blood, increases of ambient sound and fast pace editing to add to
intensity. Another film that uses this is ‘Fight Club’ in the
changeover scene in which the narrator discovers that he is Tyler
Durden and all of the past hour an a half of the movie flashes back
into his memory in the way that they really are. This is similar to the
end of our opening when Scarlett wakes up and sees that there is
blood on her hands.
https://youtu.be/TPZ0Rl62kRc
Fight Club changeover
scene. (Watch from 2:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3R
UCIWh8u8
End of opening. (Watch from 2:00)

3. Use of music.
• The opening background music is somewhat eerie like ‘The
Machinist’. Although ‘The Machinist’s opening music is somewhat
more aggressive. Which supports the genre conventions of Thrillers.
In the bathroom scene the crescendo of the music and the heartbeat,
the intensity provoked in the scene supports conventions. However
in the party scene the music is more up-beat which subverts
conventions.
Wrong Path Opening
Music

4. Unique Selling Point.
• Our unique selling point is that, apart from the
murdering our opening is quiet an accurate
representation of one type of teenage. Unlike many other
films that are made about teenagers by adults that don’t
represent teenagers in an accurate way.