Question 1

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

When doing research into the thriller genre, I found the following conventions within the genre that thrillers follow;

• Fast-paced
• The unknown/ narrative enigma
• Plot twists
• Investigation
• Protagonist accustomed to violence and often dis-empowered
• Complex narrative that still abides by Todorov.
• Violent crime
• Everyday setting where something extraordinary happens
• Themes of mirroring, identity, voyeurism.

In the making of our thriller we applied these conventions to our opening sequence in order to convey that it was in thriller genre and would appeal to the target audience. Those of the conventions that I have highlighted were those that we wanted to focus on and ensure that they were conveyed within the opening.


















Voyeurism


We portrayed the convention of voyeurism to the audience by ensuring that through the rule of thirds we had enough foliage in the shot to give the impression to the audience that we are watching from behind the bush. By doing this it makes the viewers alert and creates narrative enigma for them, in addition to this we have also used this convention to reflect the theme that the character is dead. As these types of shots puts distance between the audience and our character.