2. The Meeting
Directed by Jon Champion and Conor Willis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um_NjMI90vA&context
=C3209253ADOEgsToPDskKJZUJI2e8ho3Qvl5e8GtOf
3. 1. In What Ways Does Your Media
Product Use, Develop and
Challenge Forms and Conventions
of Real Media Products?
Conor devised a questionnaire which gave us results that
allowed a better understanding of the Thriller genre.
Some of the results showed that Certificate 15 was the most
popular choice for thriller films. Other results where based
around codes and conventions such as setting. An urban setting
was the most popular of the choices we presented our
answerers with.
http://thatone-conorwastleyasmedia.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-
post.html
4. 1. In What Ways Does Your
Media Product Use, Develop and
Challenge Forms and
Conventions of Real Media
Products?
I watched The Adjustment Bureau, Inception and The Dark
Knight as inspiration for direction and shooting as well as
representation of characters. What I noticed was that the
way in which the camera was used often mirrored the
emotional connotation of the scene.
In The Adjustment Bureau, There are points in the opening
where the camera is shaky because David Norris’ fate is
uncertain.
http://jonasmediacoursework.blogspot.com/2011/11/dark-
knight-bank-robbery-scene-hd.html
5. 1. In What Ways Does Your
Media Product Use, Develop
and Challenge Forms and
Conventions of Real Media
Products?
We used this technique; The emotional scene between
James and Katherine was handheld, symbolising their
emotions being all over the place whereas the scene in
the tunnel was filmed with a tri-pod symbolising James’
professionalism.
In terms of representation, I noticed that the character of
Cobb in Inception is represented as the best within his
field; he educates Ellen Page’s character on the art of
extraction. We took this concept and made sure that
James was the Hooded Figure’s ‘best client’.
6. 1. In What Ways Does Your Media
Product Use, Develop and Challenge
Forms and Conventions of Real Media
Products?
We used Warner Bros which is one of the most popular
thriller institutions, it was used for The Dark Knight and
Inception. We wanted to give off the same level quality
and so we used WB to do so.
One technique we used to stand out was the use of a
song to amplify the emotion of the opening rather than
an original score which is the norm for thriller films
