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

The thriller we created adhered to many conventions of a thriller movie and in turn also opening sequences of movies in general, however also challenging a few during construction.

The first convention utilised in the thriller film would be the mystery presented and the introduction of a location/setting to the audience. The camera is laced so that it is a wide shot of much of the surroundings beyond the rooftop, with a character being in the shot but not being able to be identified. Both of these are great examples of conventions, with the mystery character being commonly used in thriller movies to set up a narrative enigma, using this within my thriller I thought would really add to the effect it had as a thriller and the professionalism it carried with it. Also the setting up shot of the setting is used lots as a convention of an opening sequence meaning utilising it was a good choice to make the thriller seem as real a media product as possible. Both of us feel that the shot showing the skyline of the city is similar to david fincher's skyline shot in his thriller film although maybe not as professional. The Character standing at the edge of the roof looking over the city is also akin to the opening of a film like Batman or Spiderman.

One convention we challenged would have been that in most thriller films you usually get to see the crime or murder committed, granted this is not the case in all thrillers but it happens enough the majority of the time that it has become convention. Guy and I however did not want this as we really wanted to push the idea of a narrative enigma being present throughout the entirety of the piece and did not want the viewers to realise or understand the ultimate fate of the characters they were witnessing on screen until much later on in the movie. We felt something happening to the characters with the first three minutes of the film defeated the purpose of the thriller genre entirely and instead kept the suspense and tension to subsequently keep viewer guessing. You can see the hooded man follow the man in the suit, but what happens next would not be revealed until much later and that generates masses of suspense and atmosphere in the film adding heavily to the verisimilitude.