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.
