Our film challenges some conventions of typical thriller films in three key ways: 1. It uses white titling instead of red and features a bible-inspired font rather than typical thriller fonts. 2. It establishes shots from inside the church location looking low to high, rather than outside looking high to low. 3. It features a female villain/murderer rather than the typical male villain of thrillers.

1. EVALUATION – QUESTION ONE
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My Product Typical My Production – Comparison to
Thriller/Horror use, develop or Existing
Conventions challenge? Products
Titling – colour, font The colours of our titles The titling that we used Other films that
and style are red to represent was not typical of films use this
blood, which is typical of that same genre conventions are
of films in the thriller (thrillers) we used white films like misery
genre. Which would instead of the typical and the secret
typically for shadow red that is used in window
blood of death that thriller we also used a
would happen later on font that was related to
in the film the a theme in the film
by making the font
resemble font that
would be use d in a
bible
Camera Most of the camera Instead of a normal The Texas
Movement- pan, movement that we establishing shot that chainsaw
track, crab, crane have used in our film is shows the location massacre also
very slow, this is typical from outside. We zoom in to
of a thriller it keeps the challenged the documents in the
atmosphere chilling convention and shot opening
and creepy for example the inside of our sequence as we
the pan that we have location, which is a have done in ours
church instead to
create the feeling of
claustrophobia with in
the church. Also
zooming in to close
ups on pictures
Framing a shot Most commonly used We did use a lot of A film that is a
ECU, CU, MS, LS, are close ups and close ups on picture thriller and also
ELS extreme close ups of out victim and we has extreme
there are also normally also use along shots close ups is the
extreme long shots instead of extreme Texas chain saw
used for establishing long shots for our massacre.
shots. establishing shot.

2. Camera Angle The establishing shots In our film we Other films that
High, Low that are used in thrillerssubverted the follow the
are normally shot from convention by conventions of a
a high angle looking shooting from the thriller when it
down on the certain inside of our location comes to camera
area and then lower in instead of the outside angle are Psycho
to the place where the and we shot the and the secret
story is set. establishing shot from window also
low to high instead of Panic room.
high to low.
Mise-en-Scene The hooded jumper Our villain/murderer Not many thrillers
that the actress uses to is female instead of have villains that
cover her face is typical male this challenges have masks our
of a bad/villain person the conventions of a disguises
in a thriller to have a thriller which would however some do
disguise. normally have a male avoid seeing the
villain. villains for longer
that needed e.g.
the secret
window.
Editing – jump cuts, The cuts in a thriller not While editing our film Other films that
match cuts, reverse usually jump cuts on to we did not make the follow the
shots, cutting a change in scene and rhythm fast because convention of
rhythm the cutting is done in a we wanted to stick to slow paced cuts
slower pace and there the typical convention and a slow
are is not a lot of of a thriller so that we cutting rhythm
reverses shots and could accomplish the are The Texas
there is a very slow chilling and creepy chainsaw
rhythm to create a feeling that we were massacre the
creepy and chilling trying to get. beginning and
atmosphere. also Panic room.
Sound The sound in a thriller The sound that we Our film similar to
is usually dark and used in our film is a psycho.In the
slow paced music that chilling dark sounding opening titles that
goes with the slow organ which sounds sort of music
pace of the film the as if it is playing in creates the tense
music is usually the background atmosphere of
discorded and (diagetic sound) but it the film. However
unpleasant on the ears is actually a track that not all similar
which ands to the scary we added in as non because other
feel of the film diagetic sound. thriller do not
We also used a voice have voice overs
over so that it could
have a scary effect
also of someone
talking to the

3. audience so that they
feel as if they are in
the film
Narrative Theory There is most Our film does follow Our film is similar
commonly a villain the that typical to many other film
(who is seen as bad) in narrative theory and in that they have
thriller and a victim we do have a a villain and a
(who is seen as villain(Grace)and a victim e.g. Texas
good)and there is victim (Gwen) which chainsaw
normally some sort of we find adds to the massacre the
chase to when the suspense because beginning and the
villain tries to pursue the audience want to panic room
the victim. know if Grace will
catch Gwen