- The group drew inspiration from existing thriller films like Hostage, Trapped, and The Last House on the Left for their plot ideas. They aimed to conform to thriller conventions but challenge traditions through aspects like music. - They developed details about how the rest of their hypothetical film would continue after the title sequence, following a detective protagonist searching for the abducted victim April. - The group tested different music styles but ultimately chose a tension-building "Panic music" track to heighten discomfort, challenging the tradition of softer piano scores in thriller titles. - Research found audiences preferred traditional male protagonist/antagonist and female victim roles, so the group conformed to this convention to create a successful

2. • Our individual research and planning played a large role for the aspects that develops and
uses conventions of real media products already on the market. As everyone in my group
researched different directors and individual title sequences we had a large range of research
to draw ideas from.
Plot:
The inspiration for our plot ideas stems from many thriller films already in the genre. Some
examples are: Hostage directed by Florent Siri, Trapped by Luis Mandoki and The Last House on
the Left directed by Dennis Ilidas.
We decided during our planning process it was important to keep to a pre-existing convention
on the thriller market. It was decided we would develop/challenge traditional conventions
through other aspects of our title sequence such as the music etc.
However:
One way in which the plot in our title sequence challenges the typical traditions is the characters
that appear in our project.
We have the antagonist, played by George, which conforms to traditions and we have a victim
character which again conforms, however the protagonist doesn't appear…

3. For a successful title sequence, we needed to have an idea on how the rest of our film
would be. This originates from the beginning of our planning stages. Once we decided
on the abduction idea we gave ideas of rough details of how the rest of the film would
go, even though we were only producing the opening title sequence.
- The protagonist we planned would be a detective. As a group we planned the rest of
the film would follow his story about finding “April” who was shown in our title
sequence and other young girls.
We decided against showing this character in our title sequence because we didn’t
want to open up the storyline too much, despite us challenging tradition conventions
we didn’t want to provide too much of the storyline.
Continued…

4. Music:
Once we had finished editing together our raw footage we started researching different
music styles. We started off with “Tonight you belong to me” we became aware of this
1920’s piece of music when it played on popular series ‘American Horror story’. When we
put it alongside our footage we originally felt the music was well suited. After feedback
from our teacher we decided there wasn’t enough childlike imagery to link the music to the
edited footage. The music didn’t correspond to when George (the antagonist) was in view
of the scene.
Sound Prezi:
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5. Actual Music:
The music we decided would be perfect for our title sequence was called ‘Panic music-
background instrumental/soundtrack score/ scary, suspense sound effects.’ It is a tension
building piece of music which heightens and falls throughout our title sequence.
Our title sequence develops conventions of media products already in the market as our main
influence for this piece is from the thriller ‘Se7en’. The music is intentionally piercing to
provide a discomfort to viewers, especially when the young victim, April, is in view in the scene.
Although the music we decided upon supports the same theme as the music in ‘Se7en’ it
challenges the traditional type of music often used in thriller title sequences. Many play
classical/ soft piano composites to accompany thriller openings, as a group we didn’t want to
conform to the most well known music for our project. It was important for us to provide an
alternative feel of tension and build up within our opening.

6. Development of traditions in thriller:
After my questionnaire it was clear the stereotypical male protagonist/antagonist and
female victim was favoured within our target audience. My group also gathered parallel
information in their questionnaires. This is traditional for multiple genres across the film
industry, before the questionnaire we originally felt a stray from this tradition would be
suiting however we concluded addressing our audience was more important.
Looking at our final product the traditional damsel in destress worked well within out
title sequence. The conformity to classical conventions specifically from the thriller genre
enable my group and I to create a successful thriller tittle sequence.
Our title sequence used products already on the market to aid ideas within our planning
and production, it also opposed conventions as we brought in new and original ideas.