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

real media products?

Conventions of a typical thriller film.The female antagonist, usually portrayed as a male, is stalking the female protagonist.

The antagonist is hiding from the protagonist so that she isn’t seen stalking her.

The dark lighting suggests the theme of the film.

The shot only shows half of her face, which could suggest that they want to keep her character a mystery.

A typical thriller film would normally use a male as the antagonist, but we wanted to show how it could happen to anyone, and it doesn’t always have to be a male.

Typical titling.

• Also a typical thriller film would normally have a dark background with a strange font to make clear to the audience that they are about to watch a thriller film.

• For example, here are a few thriller film/TV series titles that use the dark background and the creepy bold fonts to show that it is a thriller.

We decided to put the titling in the corner so that you could still see the video footage because we liked the opening sequence as it was quick, flashing images and video which made the film seem tense and creepy, which was our intention.

This was to the end of the titling sequence when the title of the film was shown. The title is obviously ‘Hello’ and we had the black and white shot up first, for about 5 seconds, fading in and out. Then we had the second shot which is the crayon picture, which just quickly flashed up on screen. And lastly we had the production company with a black background. We wanted the production company on a blank screen because we wanted the audience to see who produced the film, as we feel it is important.

• As a group we decided to film in broad daylight, because most thrillers are filmed in darkness to represent the night time, which was too typical for us, so we challenged this, and filmed our first bit of footage mid afternoon. It was winter time, so it was grey skies, but still very bright compared to normal thriller films.

• Also the antagonist wears a grey jacket and black jeans, where as the protagonist wears, not brightly coloured clothes, but colours instead of black, which clearly shows the audience through stereotypes, who is the antagonist.

• Also the protagonist is smiling which shows that her life was happy before the stalking began.

Camera shots and filming techniques.

The unsteady shot adheres to the typical conventions of a thriller film as it shows how the stalker is following her .

When watching the thriller we noticed that it isn’t very noticeable due to the shot being cut short but of you look in the top left window you can see the protagonist sat in the window, we decided to do this to show how the stalker is a complete mystery, and maybe that they are not human?

The two shots of the stalker in darkness unable to see their face shows they’re mysterious.