Evaluation Question 1

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

conventions of real media products?

The thriller genre is based around, tension,

excitement and suspension.

My film has used this in various ways;

• Music- using strings, violins and other soft scary instruments.

• Having no dialogue- withholding information.

• Having the audience on the edge of their seats, is the main aim of this film.

Colour and font style.

Our film followed a number of different conventions shown by some of the films we’ve analyzed. One of these conventions used in our film was to do with out credits and the fact that they are over black screens, and some are done so they fit the whole screen, like ours did and like ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ compared to the credits.

Camera movement

We developed our movement ideas from watching other thriller films that we had all watched. Most commonly there was pan’s and tracking movements. So we used these ideas to plan our scenes and how they would work together, we panned across the items to give a jist of what's happening.

Mise en scene

The props we used in our thriller films are very dependant on the story. We only used the items at the start with no characters so now costumes.

Editing

We didn’t use a lot of transitions. In a thriller film they usually use a lot of jump cuts, but we didn’t follow this convention of a thriller we used cross-dissolves as it is not just a thriller.

Sound

We didn’t use very much dialogue in out film as we agreed that it was more effective if we used a soundtrack, as that means that the audience would be more focused on the images rather than listening to a voice, that why we have just used it at the end,

Still 1:

Hidden identityElement of mystery; who’s Hannah?

Use of sound to create atmosphere:Conventionally in thrillers, the score reflects a character or an emotion. In the score we made we used loads of stringed instruments, to give a sad, lost effect.

Still 2 and 3:

The creation of enigmas:Photos add the conventional mystery to the thriller, immediately creating enigmas:Who’s the girl? Who’s the boy? How important are they to the film narrative?

Still 4:

Creation of mystery:Developing thriller convention of elements of mystery. Who’s is the car? Why is it there? What’s happened?

Still 5:

Sense of mystery:The audience should hopefully be asking questions like:Who’s written the diary?Why have they written the diary?What’s been 10 years?

There are many conventions shown in thrillers through

different techniques and these were just a few that we used and showed in our film; ‘The

Last Rose’.

The opening of my movie challenges real media products

because it uses new ideas for how the genre of a thriller movie should

start by attempting to trick and deceive the audience at first then

slightly confuse them to make them wonder what’s happening

and want to watch on.