Evaluation 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our film follows typical film openings, and follows the accepted conventions of thrillers in many different ways, however our film also challenges the accepted conventions of thriller films.

As a film opening, we've included idents and titles, so that it is clear to the audience that it is a film opening. We have also included some conventions of thriller films to that is also clear to the audience that it is a thriller film. Comparisons with how we have done our thriller film opening can be made with The Silence of The Lambs -which has a classic thriller opening- as I will show you now:

The Silence of  The Lambs opening:

1/2 Similar to ours, and to most film openings, they have the big production/distribution ident first to attract attention, followed by the smaller independent production/distribution company ident.

3/4/6 They have their titles and name of the main actors like us, except our actor titles come much later than the title of the film, which I think is an error on our part. They also include the names of important crew members, like director of photography and sound and lighting technician, which we follow also.

7 In order to challenge accepted conventions of thriller films, we changed the gender of the protagonist/victim to male- in thriller films it is often female, such as in The Silence of The Lambs. Females are seen as more vulnerable than men, so often play the role of the victim, whereas in this it is a male victim, so the threat towards him isn't as anticipated.

5 Low lighting is used to create tension and uncomfortable viewing for the audience.

8 Extreme close-up of protagonists face to convey the emotion in the scene.

9 Certain amount of threat is shown, as blood is shown on this knife, murdered bodies are shown in The Silence of The Lambs. The blood signifys the oncoming potential threat to both protagonists in both films.