The document discusses how the student's media product uses and develops conventions of real films while also challenging some conventions. It summarizes how the film title, costumes, editing, genres of psychological thriller, characters in conflict, lighting, and ambiguous ending both utilize and expand typical conventions. The film poster includes standard features but centers the protagonist's image, and the radio trailer employs a loud narrator and impactful sounds effects to draw the audience in through auditory senses alone.

1. Q1. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE
FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA
PRODUCTS?
Sanjidah Rahman 12A1

2. THE FILM

3. FILM TITLE AND TAGLINE
 “Ignis Fatuus”
 “Something that misleads or deludes and
illusion”
 Both the title and tagline, I thought, is very
catchy, intriguing and somewhat clever as it
pulls the audience into watching our film as
there is a sense of mysteriousness which is
exciting for the audience.

4. COSTUME AND PROPS
 This is a feature that all films have. Costumes
and props help give an overall appearance of a
character and the atmosphere.
 Example – In our film, the wife is seen wearing
a red satin gown.
 In most films, red can be used to portray a
character being playful or aggressive. However,
the meaning of red in our film reflects herself
as she is the victim of her husbands abuse.
Also, it foreshadows a coming event. Therefore,
we developed the use of red in films by giving it
more meaning.

5. EDITING
 We challenged the conventions of trimming
cuts in films by adding transitions, split
screens and motion blur.
 Example – In the end scenes of our film we
added transitions and a split screen to
enhance the atmosphere of the scene. We also
used motion blur in the running scene to
create suspense and excitement as most
running scenes are usually fast paced, we
decided to blur the scene and decrease the
speed to maintain the suspense and
excitement.

6. USING CONVENTIONS
 Psychological thriller is a genre that focuses
heavily on a character. Certain themes in a
psychological thriller include mind, identity
and reality. It usually contain elements of
mystery with horror.
 Our film focuses heavily on a male
protagonist who has a conflict within himself
(mental stability v mental illness). However,
the audience does not know this until the
very end of our film. Therefore, there are
certain elements in our film which creates
suspense, but we see this through his
expressions and his actions.

7. DEVELOPING CONVENTIONS
 In most Psychological thrillers, there is always a
character surrounded by conflict, and this would
be within itself or the outside forces.
 In our film , we developed the conventions of a
psychological thriller of characters being in
conflict, by adding an argument between the
husband and wife in the opening scenes of our
films. By doing this, there is already heavy
tension between characters at the very beginning
of our film.

8. CHALLENGING CONVENTIONS OF
THRILLER
 The thriller genre usually consists of dark
lighting and lurking shadows to create
mysteriousness. However, our film didn’t
include these typical lighting. Instead we
filmed in daylight using natural outside
lighting and still successfully we
managed to create the tense mood and
atmosphere we aimed for.

9. CHALLENGING CONVENTIONS OF
THRILLER
 Most conventional Psychological thrillers end
with a solved problem or situation. Films such as
Memento is a good example of this as it ends with
a twisted puzzle.
 The way in which our film has challenged
conventions is by leaving the ending unsolved
and in a confused manner for the audience. We
leave the story In our film with the protagonist
knowing of his situation but walking away from
it. This allows the audience to think about their
own ending and whether he gets help or not.

10. THE FILM POSTER

11. THE POSTER – TYPICAL FEATURES
Film
Company
name
Picture of
protagonist Date of
release
Film Title
Rating of
Tagline the film.

12. USING THE CONVENTIONS TOWARDS
OUR FILM POSTER
 Title of film is the largest font.
 There is a single dominant image
in the centre of the main
protagonist.
 The dark and eerie colour in the
background is a typical colour for
our genre - thriller
 It clearly defines the films genre

13. RADIO TRAILER

14. RADIO TRAILER – TYPICAL
FEATURES
 Our radio trailer includes the following:
 Film title
 Name of cast
 Production company
 Tagline
 A male voiceover narrating the story
 Music and sound effects

15. CHALLENGING CONVENTIONS OF A RADIO
TRAILER
 Creating a radio trailer could be seen as
difficult as the audience can only be reeled in
by what they hear.
 We used a deep and loud male voiceover as it
would be more exciting and thrilling for the
audience.
 Music and sound effects played an important
role as it not only creates excitement for the
audience but you can have a sense of what type
of film it is. For example, fast paced music
could suggest an action film.