Evaluation question 1

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

The media product shares a convention with many films that use titles over the film as it plays. Our film does it and so does the 2005 film "pride and prejudice" which has titles over the film. Another convention it shares with real life products is that the thriller genre usually has a woman as the character in distress. Our film has a woman as the kidnappers victim and the film "the transporter" has a woman who has been taken hostage/kidnapped. Another convention that our film shares with thriller genre is the kidnapper is a man which is present in our film. However. when it comes to the titles style and font, we challenged the convention and used a style that is not normally used, if used at all in thriller films. For the title of the film, we challenged conventions and used a unique title and for the setting/location we followed the conventions as much as we could since we use a mix of houses and places which are used for storage, which are places which are the norm in thriller films. Also, how we opened the film challenges conventions of thriller films but not some phycological films like the 2002 movie "signs" which has a similar introduction to ours. the story challenges yet follows some conventions of thriller films as the plot if fairly unique but uses elements from films such as "phone booth" where commands are issued to a man through a telephone. The opening shares some with phycological thrillers as it shows the setting and uses music to set the mood and foreshadow what kind of film it is. The way characters are introduced also shares conventions with some films but also challenges them for example it challenges the way the main character is introduced in "signs" but also shares conventions with films that show the room or place the main character is in and then reveals who the main character is. For special effects we shared conventions with films as the sound effects are similar to that of which you would find in a normal thriller film.

here are two grids showing what i mean, the first is using examples from my group's film and the other is clips from mainstream films.