Evaluation

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our media products conveys many conventions typical of an opening to a psychological thrillers. After researching different ways of approaching how to film openings of psychological thrillers, such as creating a sense of the unknown using extreme close ups or mid-action openings. We decided to use the convention of captures the audiences interest by portraying something ordinary and mundane, that is interrupted by danger or drama. One of the films that I researched that uses this method was Blue Velvet. We began our opening with a character making tea which builds a false sense of security as the character is in the safety of his home. This was disturbed by the arrival of a kidnapping note and the actual kidnapping of the daughter. The beginning of our production is meant to create confusion for the viewer using the convention of suspense and tension. The music typically creates a tense atmosphere which adheres to the conventions of a thriller. There is a non-linear narrative which supports the conventions of an independent thriller as creates confusion, which enhances the suspense and tension. Thrillers often contain motifs which when researching auteur, Alfred Hitchcock we saw he used many motifs such as in the Psycho and The Birds. We used close-ups of black biker gloves so the audience can associate them with danger and distress. However we did not use the convention of extreme closes-ups to create suspense as in our audience research we asked “What do you expects to be in an opening of a Thriller” the answers were establishment of characters, dramatic scenes and the ending. To appeal to our audience we conveyed the convention of drama.