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

My media project is set in the thriller convention, which means it fits into the board thriller convention using excitement, suspense and tension as the main elements. The thriller genre intensifies the stimulation of the mind and imagination of the audience. I researched the convention by watching a multitude of thriller’s and breaking them down to find what main elements are, this, helped me to understand what is critical when choosing what to included, when creating a gripping thriller. My thriller uses role reversal of the hero in the story being a woman and the villain being a man.
However it sticks to the convention of being the hero who wins. The film is a non-liner starting at the end with a big fight to the death, or so the heroine thought which allows the film have a sequel film produced.
Each film I looked at the had simmerlaritys in its mise-en-scene all of which are very visually unique to thrillers. Most of which are dark and look damp, cold and either set in woods or old structurally lacking buildings. this all adds atmosphere to the scene even without any acting, combine this with background music which spikes in volume and pitch suddenly and your half way to creating a great thriller, Because we were unable to find a building fitting the description we decided to go for the next best. So we chose to film around a woody area, i scouted an area of 25 miles we narrowed the potential shot sites to just three:
site one was perfect for the script but health and safety ment it was unusable as there was access issues.My media project is set in the thriller convention, which means it fits into the board thriller convention using excitement, suspense and tension as the main elements. The thriller genre intensifies the stimulation of the mind and imagination of the audience. I researched the convention by watching a multitude of thriller’s and breaking them down to find what main elements are, this, helped me to understand what is critical when choosing what to included, when creating a gripping thriller. My thriller uses role reversal of the hero in the story being a woman and the villain being a man.
However it sticks to the convention of being the hero who wins. The film is a non-liner starting at the end with a big fight to the death, or so the heroine thought which allows the film have a sequel film produced.
Each film I looked at the had simmerlaritys in its mise-en-scene all of which are very visually unique to thrillers. Most of which are dark and look damp, cold and either set in woods or old structurally lacking buildings. this all adds atmosphere to the scene even without any acting, combine this with background music which spikes in volume and pitch suddenly and your half way to creating a great thriller, Because we were unable to find a building fitting the description we decided to go for the next best. So we chose to film around a woody area, i scouted an area of 25 miles we narrowed the potential shot sites to just three:
site one was perfect for the script but health and safety ment it was unusable as there was access issues.

site two seemeed a bit new

(the trees were thin and there was very little diversity), and was far too noisy for the site to work on digetic sound as it was close to the a17 this was a real problem as it left us with only one set :

which left me with only one option. bourne woods:

the woods itself was perfect although there were still problems with this place because of the car park being too open there was no chance of getting the shotts needed so the script was edited to fit our set. there were problems with lighting i wanted a much darkker set but the weather was far too variable once the light started going it went too fast to make the shotts have the same lighting so we filmed during the day as there was less variation in light.

the charecters are dressed almost all in black which give the effect of darkness and evil. This is done to both charrecters because it allows the audience to missplace their support. helping keep the audience on their feat, and intrested.

the effect i used were a mix of conventional and non-conventional; the speeding up at the start to the film is used in manny films to do pov shots of a demonic beast or alien just about to attack its pray... in my case however i used it to get to the fight scene which emphasises it as if this was very important and it is to the whole illusion of the protagonist actually being the antagonist and visa versa. The non-convetional effect i used was a negative type effect, which was used in the starting point of the film, to reduce the visability of the background, and focus on the forground, which holds the text ( this helps set the scene for the audience quickly just like in the star wars cronicals), telling the story .