1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our media product, does incorporate generic conventions In the first scene/frame, of the main character walking builds up to the action it may keep the audience tense and on the edge of their seats as in the first frame of the character being shown it shows only the back of the main character and of him harshly walking away from the camera through a corridor, also this in this frame it shows a realistic setting of a school this may create a sense of 'the unusual' occurring within a normal setting as the character is acting different and unusual to what someone would act within a school. Our thriller opening shows flashbacks as it is a big part of the opening. It shows the present when showing the credits and then shows the 'flashbacks' of the main character within the school. It shows the presents credits by having colour within the shot and when showing flashbacks it changes to an old world effect that we have created by editing on the macs. We also used the convention of covering the killers face when they walk into the room, this will make the audience interested and then benfit later on in the film as to different suspect of atcually who the killer is. The creation of suspense using soundtrack is used as the music is very loud very unexprected and the auidence may start to notice the music being really dominanant and therfore create a particular athmosphere of the main character being angry or upset etc. when the main character is walking down the stairs when the high- angled shot is shown. In the frame of the main character walking into the room it shows Twists and unexpected turns. This is shown becasue so far the audience had not been given much information to what is happening until when the man is in the room and gets the piece of paper saying 'You are next' thats when the story really starts and the twist and turns begin. I dont think that the conventions within my thriller could represtent it as a sub-genre as it has different conventions not particular ones to suit one sub-genre, just general conventions which would be found in a thriller. However if it was to be a sub-genre type thriller i would think it would be a Drama-type thriller.



Some of the conventions that are shown within our thriller opening indicates an infulence that we have had from other thrillers. For example the use of flashbacks that we have used, shows this in the talented Mr ripley but we have used this idea and made it different and our own such as making effects to make it look like a visable flashback.