EVALUATION QUESTION 1

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

In the process of research and planning we investigated the conventions of thrillers for our own film introduction. We reviewed thriller openings including ‘Kidult hood’ and ‘London to Brighton’, taking notice of the social realistic style of the films and techniques used that we could include in our product. 

It was clear there were some gothic representations, often shown through darker lighting and night time scenes, creating suspense and darker gothic tone. This created an almost horror type atmosphere, with the presumption that something bad is eminent. We wanted to develop this, creating both the suspense of a thriller while incorporating this darker gothic element.  Both films mentioned above are social realistic, a genre that we wanted to incorporate into out product, as there was a natural feel to the shots that we thought we could develop into our piece. Thrillers often present action and pace, which is shown by the use of camera movement, and high speed cuts. We used this in our opening in the chase scene, sometimes using handheld shots and high speed cuts to represent the frantic situation and build suspense.

Annotated final cut:

Written by Ewan Leslie