Evaluation Q1 (Blog)

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

The aim of a thriller movie is to create suspense and excitement for the audience. The film we had created uses conventions of a thriller movie as our film creates suspense and excitement for the audience, we had shot our film on a park and the home of the antagonist. These two location would be used in a thriller movie as the villain's house who we filmed in was dark, and he had mysterious photos of his victim. Including this in our film, would create a sense of awkwardness in the audience, as they would wonder why he has pictures of kids. Also, the thriller genre often consists of an investigation of an enigma or the hero is the only person whom is able to solve this enigma and reveal the truth. Our film has a hero whom is the father of the victim who is kidnapped, he is the hero who saves his daughter from the antagonist to save the day. 

We have tried to use conventions of real media products as we included many different conventions which are used in the thriller genre. Also, we had gotten our idea of our story from a film named 'The Lovely Bones', which uses the idea of the villain collecting and storing items of his victims in a diary. We had replicated this idea, where our villain does the same collecting pictures and a hair tie. Next, we had used Diegetic and Non Diegetic throughout our film, we had used Diegetic when you can hear the trees in the park, and when the villain is walking towards his victim, and Non Diegetic sound is used when we had added our own music throughout the beginning and end of the film. Our composition went well with the film as it gave a sense of awkwardness throughout the audience. 

From my research of thriller movies, I had found out that Murder and Kidnapping is one of the biggest conventions used, and also I have seen either a murder or kidnapping in most thriller i have watched, therefore this resulted in us including a kidnapping in our movie, and to engage the audience even more we had used a little girl aged 3 years old. The idea that the girl is young makes it realistic about the fact that she would be easy to kidnap due to the size, age and gender. Also, we had dressed the child in a typical way a 3 year old would dress, by her being dressed with a flowery dress and with point tails. We had used girl to act as the victim, as it would contrast with the fact that the villain is a male, and males are the more dominant sex.