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

Because we were familiar with thriller films we knew what sort of codes and conventions were associated with the thriller genre.

• They create a sense of enigma and suspense
• Some contain fast paced editing or slow paced to create even more tension throughout the film, this depends on the sub-genre
• The music is used to add rigidity. 
• Low key lighting
• Diegetic sound of either breathing or a heart beat
• Black and white shots

If we break this down further, we would have to look at the codes and conventions of the crime thriller as that is our sub-genre.

Crime Thrillers often focus on the life of a crime figure or a crime's victim(s), or the rise and fall of a particular criminal(s), gang, murderer or lawbreaker(s) in personal power struggles or conflict with law and order figures. Examples of crime thrillers are Se7en, Pulp Fiction and The Purge.
These are some of the codes and conventions we took into account when making our opening sequence.


Codes:

• Camera work (close ups of the characters to show their emotion).

• Body language (see how the character is feeling).

• Long shots (establish the location as well as what the characters are doing).

• Fast paced music (create suspense).

Conventions:

The characters might range from being:

• Materialistic

• Street-smart

• Dishonest

• Megalomaniacal

• Self-destructive


Completed by Somer.