Q.01. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

1. Title of the film – We developed an idea from a thriller film that we researched, which is “Die hard – With a Vengeance”. The title of die hard came in with a sound like a single explosion. In our opening scene, we made a sound effect for each of the letter of the title coming in.
2. Setting/Location – Regarding location, we made use of one of the most common place for a thriller film, the woods.  The sense of isolation and the appearance of the woods, dark and lonely, helped us create tension to appeal to the audience.
3. Costumes and props – For props, we made use of work clothes and a bike. The character pushing it and walking through the woods alone gives the audience a sense of isolation and creates tension.
4. Camerawork and editing – The tilted camera and the black-and-white colour of the shot is one convention of thriller films. This creates tension and a sense of uneasiness. This also helps the audience get a feel of what happened to the character.
5. Title font and style – The font of the title are done in big, clear, white letters. We challenged normal thriller, which uses fonts in bold capital letters. This simple font and style combined with the sound effects combines really well to catch the audiences’ attention.
6. Story and how opening sets it up – The film opens by a seemingly person gets off work and goes off. This helps show the difference when the character enters a attack or struggle.
7. Genre and how opening suggests it – Another common convention of a thriller film is violence of an attack. The bat connotes this violence well, especially with it pointed to the character. The distorted colour also adds to this, thus creating the tension needed in the scene.
8. How characters are introduced – The character introduction is done very clearly, with an attacker and the one who gets attacked. One of the main conventions of thriller films is that the main character gets attacked, assaulted or tortured by an attacker. The opening scene shows clearly who is which.
9. Special effects – We used a black-and-white shot effect for a flashback. A flashback is one of the conventions of thriller films. Furthermore, by taking  the shot from a high angle and making look like a CCTV camera, this makes it look like the character onscreen is being watched or followed.