The document summarizes how the media product, a psychological thriller, uses and challenges conventions of the thriller genre. It follows many typical thriller conventions like quick movements, tense music, and an unreliable victim character. However, it challenges conventions by not including guns/blood and instead uses a teddy bear for comfort. The target audience is ages 15+ and the opening credits use a softer font in black and white. Cinematography uses techniques like high angles, close ups, and panning shots to portray the victim's unstable behavior and vulnerability. Editing and sound are used conventionally to build tension. Costume, lighting, and mise en scene also advance the plot and character development in conventional thriller style.

1. Q1.In what ways does your Media
product use develop or challenged
forms and conventions?
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2. Does my product follow the conventions of a
thriller?
• Yes I believe my thriller follows the conventions of a thriller. Thrillers it
is common to have low key lighting, quick movements, slow music
that builds up tension, diegetic and non diegetic sounds and my
thriller includes most of those things, as it has quick movements.

3. Generic conventions of a thriller
• In most thrillers, there is guns and blood and sometimes drugs
involved, even though my thriller doesn’t involve guns, drugs and
blood. We challenged it by using a teddy bear that provides our anti
hero with comfort.

4. Conventions and target audience and opening
credits.
My thriller is targeted at the audience from ages 15 and above, we
have made sure that what they would expect in a psychological thriller,
would be included in our thriller.
CREDITS
Instead of using the typical
thriller font we went for a
softer look on our credits,
but we still kept it in the
white and black colour
scheme to add a bit of
tension. The titles font has
an awkward look to it almost
making it look like an
unfinished drawing.

5. Characters
• In out thriller we used one character, which is the female
victim who is mentally unstable, this is conventional to a
psychological thriller as it is expected for a victims actions
to be unreliable and unpredictable, this character also
challenges conventions as her actions can be perceived as
evil and putting others in danger, however overall the
character is conventional as she creates emotions from
the audience.

6. Cinematography
• We used a lot of panning shots, which shows
the characters unstable behaviour. And
shows that is capable of committing danger.
• We also used high angles from a cameras
point of view looking down at the victim. This
shows that she is vulnerable and is in danger.
• Furthermore we used close ups of the victims
face to show that she is emotionally unstable
and her facial expressions are clearly
unstable.

7. Editing
• We used fast pace editing to build tension for the
audience and support the characters instability.
• We used a reaction shot to show that the characters
emotions and her reacting to the baby and her
mental state.
• Overall, we used conventional editing techniques in
order to ensure our victim was presented effectively
demonstrating her state clearly to the audience.
A reaction shot
from the thriller

8. Sound
No diegetic sound was used during the scenes when the
victim was running down the stairs causing tension for the
audience.
There's is on screen sound when the victim is outside and
there is traffic, making the audience feel like they are part
of the plot, it shows that the victim is in more danger.
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9. Mise en scene: costume and body language
• The costume of the victim is her is her pyjamas
showing that she has been staying at the hospital
for a while, the colour of her costume are very
feminine and varies from white to light pink
making her look vulnerable and delicate to the
audience, but we challenge the conventions of a
traditional thriller because by the end the product
she is the evil person.
• The whole way through she looks scared and
confused which makes the audience pity her.

10. Mise En scene: lightening and colour
• Through the production, we have a low key lighting to add tension
and drama. We used a lot of low key lighting that which will create a
dramatic effect. This is used in most thriller films to create add a dark
mood to the scene.