In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge

conventions of real media products?

9 shot analysis

How we used the indent

The first thing you see in our media product is the indent we made at the start. We felt it was necessary to have this in our product as all real media products use this In their films.

How we challenged a real media product.

We challenged a real media product when editing our piece. We decided to go for a sepia look rather than your average back and white. We did this because we felt we needed something to make our opening stand out from the rest and we felt that this made our thriller original.

How we used conventions.

We decided to use candles in our thriller as they are a typical convention of a thriller. We felt that candles would really establish the genre of our piece to our target audience and would bring the right kind of eerie effect that we wanted to our clip.

How we used typical camera work.

We used an overhead camera for this shot. We felt that this would work well in our piece as it looks like this is from the ‘stalkers’ perspective, making the audience feel more involved in our piece. The blurry effect on the clip gives off a mysterious feel.

How we used music.

This is the final cut from our piece. Throughout the piece you can clearly hear low orchestral music. We felt that this is a typical convention of a thriller; it brings out the eerie and mysterious themes that we wanted in our opening.

How we developed music

At the very last clip of our thriller you can clearly hear an alienated sound, we used this to develop on the idea of this clip being just a thriller. Suggesting that this thriller has a sub-genre ( supernatural thriller)

How we developed on conventions

We decided to use cut out newspapers and pictures of the stalking victim , as this can be something that you would see in a real thriller, however we developed on this idea by creating a shrine of the newspaper cut-outs and the pictures of the victim, we also used red pen to circle the victims face in the picture making it really stand out.

How We used conventions

We decided to use a typical black hoodie for costume in our piece. We felt that if we used any other type of colour or clothing the audience may not get the type of genre that we are using, as this hoodie/colourcombination is easily recognizable to any audience.

How we used camera work.

We decided to use this high-angle shot on the stalker as we felt that it would bring the audience in, as if they were looking over the stalkers shoulder. This angle shows the side of the stalkers head but not the front, making the audience question who the stalker might be, what they look like etc.