In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventionsof real media products?
Our production develops conventions of real Thrillers, but doesn't challenge its conventions. The reason being, that we aimed to appeal to a target audience, so we had a guaranteed audience, rather than trying something original. The actor we used as our main protagonist is the classic blonde, innocent type. This is seen in a lot of thrillers, because the “Blonde” is stereotyped as being the more vulnerable. In our production we used long shots of our protagonist to show isolation, this is a common convention used in thrillers, such as Psycho and Birds, by Alfred Hitchcock. In our opening we establish each character separately to the audience. This is done by showing individual shots of the characters.
The music used hints to the audience that something negative is about to happen, the isolated setting also does this.
Our antagonist, ‘Stanley’, meets conventions of a psychological thriller as he is mentally disturbed. After collecting information from our audience surveys, we saw that nearly half of the people asked preferred to hear classical music in an opening of a thriller. Thrillers such as Panic Room, use this to attract they’re target audience.
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