asmedia thrilleropening zubair: Evaluation question 1

In wgat way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Media representation is very important when creating films. The media portray a selective amount of opinions to the world. Thse opinions are vital and are usually taken in buy the general public. Represents allot of different opinions and usually has different reasons and people that it is aimed at. We had to take all of these factors in account in order for our film to be successful, at the same time we wanted to make our film co-exist with the stereo types. The stereo types we used were the male dominance over females.

Our thriller does relate to the conventions of a thriller, how every it is different from the usual thriller as it is based on reality. The opeining of our thriller creates suspence and it is about murder, which comes under the sub genre crime thriller. Crime thriller is about murder, rape or something along that line. Our thriller is about a cerial killer, we do not reveal whether there is any sexual purpose but we leave that for the viewer to decide. We build this question by making the victim showed in the film to be female.
We used the CCTV effect to show that there is something watching you, this can be intrepretated many ways.

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This image is pins on a photo of someones eye, this is very strange and it creepy. It also builds up suspenCe because we as a viewer have no idea as to what it is about and why it is there. This relates to the conventions of a thriller.

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This is an image of pictures of children on a wall. We have some idea that this picture is of past victims or of people who may be future victims. We have no idea why this person has chosen children and what he gains. This relates to the conventions of a thriller

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Is an image of a book , we do not have a clear indication as to what is in the book and what importance they have. I think that the director is trying to show us a little bit, he does this to make the viewer think about what it might be. It relates to the thriller conventions because it is all related to suspence.

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This is taken from the film seven, it is taken in a photo booth, I think that this has many representations such as the colour red. The colour red represents love and danger. I think this is a clear indication for what the director wants us to think about.

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Is an image of papers, we do not have a clear indication as to what is on the papers and what importance they have. I think that the director is trying to show us a little bit, he does this to make the viewer think about what it might be. It relates to the thriller conventions because it is all related to suspence.

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This is a very intresting image, it is off a man trying to put a thread through a needle, we also see blood on the man hands and a sought of bandage on his hands. I think it is clear what the director is showing, he his trying to tell us that it is very tense and edgy. We get this from the needle and the thread. We also see blood and bandages, this I think shows pain and danger. All of these relate to the conventions of a thriller

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It is an image of an outline of hands

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These are a few Frames from our film

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This is an image of a Our main character who is playing the role of a villain, we have used the effect of CCTV. We chose this because it shows that something is watching. This relates to the conventions of thrillers because it builds up suspence, we are not clear wheather he is a victim or villain.

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This is an image of Jordan walking up the stairs, this is right after the cctv effect. We are trying to continue the ‘somethings watching you effect’.

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Frame 3 is a example of our titles, we have chosen the black background because we wanted to bring a dark effect. This is related to the conventioms of a thriller and we also used a red font to represent danger.

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This is an image of Jordan marking his next location, it reflects the conventions of a thriller at the same time it shows the audience what is the next step.

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This is an image of a newspaper, we wanted to bring the sense of reality thorugh out the film opening and this was our chance.