This document discusses how a media product uses conventions found in real thriller films. It provides several still images from scenes in the media product and explains how they employ conventions of complex narratives with clues, lighting to build tension, camera angles, flashbacks, and enigmas designed to be resolved. While some conventions like clues and lighting are used directly, others like symbolic dolls are left for the audience to interpret, challenging expectations slightly. Overall, the document shows how the media product incorporates standard thriller conventions to engage the audience.

1. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
This still image from our
thriller opening uses a
convention found in
many mainstream
thrillers. This is, a
complex narrative
structure, with false
paths, clues and
resolutions. This still is
showing when Nate
starts to remember what
he witnessed all them
years ago, this is when
he witnessed his mother
being attacked by a man
still not convicted for his
crime. This stillshows that a clue has been given to the audience that Nate has
started to remember what he saw. This is convention used in many thrillers. This
is developing the convention as this is giving the audience clues to his memories
of what he saw that day.
This still image in
from the sequence
were we use a
convention, this is a
crime ta the core of
the narrative. This is
when unknown
attacker is attacking
Nate’s mum. This is
using the convention
to keep the audience
interested in the
thriller opening so the
want to watch the rest
of the film to find out
if they discover who
the attacker is and
why he targeted Nate’s mum.

2. This still image form our opening use
the convention, a narrative pattern of
establishing enigmas, which the
viewer expects to be resolved. These
dolls are a reference to time, which the
audience is expected to find out. There
are references to time as the crime
witch Nate witnessed was in the past
along time ago. This is challenging the
convention, as the audience do not find
out in the story that these are a reference to time but I left to discover this
themselves.
This still image uses one
convention found in many
thrillers, this is lighting. The
dim lighting in this shot starts
to play with audience emotions
they start to become nervous of
what is going to happen next,
the start to think that Nate
might be in danger witch leads
them to be confused until the
see what he saw all them years
ago.
This is shot from the begging of
the conversation between Nate
and Lucas. The convention used
in this is camera angles, this
convention is used in every
single film. This over the
shoulder shot shows that Nate’s
in a bad place right now has he is
in the building where he
witnessed a violent attack on his
mother.

3. this is a screen shot of
Nate when he has flash
back of what he saw that
day. This convention is
flashback which appear a
lot in thrillers, this is why
we choose to this
convention this is using
the convention as we had
seen this many times
before on thriller films .
even some classic thrillers incorporated this convention in there thriller 30 years
ago.