The document discusses typical conventions used in thriller and horror films including dark colors and fonts for titles, dialogue between main characters within the first few minutes, varied camera shots and movements to establish locations, and an intense non-diegetic soundtrack in the opening sequence. The filmmakers chose to follow some conventions such as titles, camera shots, and editing techniques but also challenged others by not focusing on a typical crime/murder narrative or including a male murderer. They aimed to identify with thriller conventions while developing the narrative in a different direction.

1. Media Typical thriller/ Horror Conventions My production- Use,
product develop or challenge
Titling- • Typical thriller conventions have low key lighting , dark colours We choose to stick with
Colour, font portrayed in the opening two minutes. Titles are usually in dark similar titles of usual thriller
bold colours and go across the screen fairly slowly. These films. We choose to keep
and style and colours connotate anger, hatred, blood, murder, which are all this convention as we
overall usually portrayed throughout the film as it progresses. wanted our audiences to be
conventions able to identify with one
• Titles shown within the first minute of the film element of our film with
other thriller films.
• Dialogue initiated between the two main characters within the
first few minutes of the film One character spoke out at
the ends of the first two
• Cinematography within the first few minutes foreshadows minutes but no dialogue
events which take place in the rest of the film between the two was
initiated.
• Narrative is based around a crime/murder The narrative around the
visitor was not based around
• Male murderer a murder but a crime so we
could say that we abided by
• Psychological playground this convention slightly
• Time, date of area awareness given without a year to make it
contempary to all audiences
• Guns and knives used as mise en scene
• Dark rainy weather
Camera • Panning and tracking shots used to establish location in the We opened our film with a
movement opening sequence tracking shot of one of the
• Birds eye shot to get the audience watching all the action main characters. This was to
show the audience that this
character will be in the film
and is a vital component to
the following events which
would take place throughout
the film
Framing • High and low angels shows varying between different status Using a range of CU, MS,
shot-Close characters. LS ect we believed it would
• Show between500-700 different camera shots through out the get the audiences attention as
up, Medium
film we varied them making the
Shot, Long • Close up shots of victim and killers face near the end of the film film more interesting. This
Shot, abided by the conventions of
Extreme thrillers as most thrillers use
Close Up, a range of these shots in
Extreme order to show different types
of emotion
Long Shot
Editing • Jump cuts Researching into different
• Straight cuts types of editing we should
• Slow cutting paces to start off with then once the action kicks in use, we choose to stick by
frantically paced shots are put in. the conventions. We used
many jup shots to go

2. between the mother walking
down the street at the
begging and the child minder
Sound • Intense non diegetic sounds in the opening sequence. We used a selection of non
• Non digetic and digetic sound birdge diegetic and diegetic sound
• to have emphasis on the
emotions being portrayed at
the given time.
We choose to use a lullaby
remix track to show reflect
the youth of the child and
twisted it around so that it
foreshadowed events which
took place in the later film
This once again abided by
the conventions a thriller
films