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

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

A thriller film is a film that heavily stimulates the viewer's mood, giving them a high level of anticipation, uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and terror. I continued the key use of this convention in order to make my opening thriller based. Key conventions of thrillers include, a fast paced plot, the unknown, plot twists, investigation, a complex narrative which is not easily solved by the viewer and violent crime. In order to successfully complete the brief of a thriller these conventions had to be included. Evidence of this can be seen throughout my piece.  Several of them I have shown below through the stills seen below:

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1. The unusual shot, a close up of the neck and shoulders of my male character shows suspense, the uknown and the connection shown between him and his derranged associate, killing partner.

2. For this shot I gained inspiration from the iconic scene from psycho, I was extremely intreaged by the idea that the blood streaming down the plug hole signifies the life of the victim. Which follows the convention of violent crime.

3. This shot shows the cleaning of equipment used during a violent crime, dennoting that the equipment was used for a inhumain murder. However from the shot there is a sense of investigation as the audience are not aware of who has been savagely muredered and for what reason.

4. The fourth image showing a large kitchen knife indicating a violent crime has occured, however a short close up of a blood covered knife creates a sense of the unknown, increasing the heart rate of the viewer as they become intreged by the possible plot which will unvail in the remainder of the film.

5. The fifth shot shows a inanimate object, a basic carton of milk. This shows a sense of normality for the age and class being presented. This creates a sense of confusion for the audience as to what may happen in the plot as the film progresses.

6. This shot shows a child ranging from the ages 10-14 wrapped up and locked in a fridge freezer. This indicates a violent crime has taken place and that a complex narrative is going to unravel.

7. The seventh picture shows a low lit black and white eye from a frontel view. This makes the audience uncomfortable as though the character is watching them and they are the couples next victim.

8.  This shot shows the male character opening a man hole, with a black bag in his opposing hand, possibly trying to hide evidence, this creates anxiousness for the viewer as to what is in the bag he is attempting to hide.

9. The ninth still shows an everyday kettle used by everyone planning on making a hot beverage this links to a sense of normality for the characters, as the props shown have no enigma attached to them. Challenging the usual convention shown in many thrillers such as Se7en where props attached to negative behaviour are shown. Such as the removal of fingerprints and  pictures of deceased victims.