QUESTION 1:

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

Media Final Evaluation

Nabilah Vazir AS Media Studies Foundation Portfolio

Our media product challenged the norm of conventions within real media products by using a brighter and less sinister setting.

SETTING

We chose a park as the setting for the majority of our thriller as it is different to other thrillers which would captivate the audience and get them to question our choice as it is not conventional for a thriller to be set in such a bright and open place.

The opening scene from ‘Silence of the lambs’ for example, conforms with the conventions as the setting is more daunting and typical for a Thriller as the lighting is dark and it looks misty, which ours does not.

EDITING

For example, we included Jump Cuts to add to add to the tenseness of the situation as well as try and effectively portray the confused and stressed out state of mind of the character.

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We used various editing techniques in our thriller opening to emphasise certain moods (confusion, tense, scared) which is a thriller convention.

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The font we chose to use for the title of our thriller subverts the ordinary in various ways for effect.

FONT

We used a more simple font for our title to get straight to the point of the meaning of the title. Whereas a more fancy title would have been a distraction

Most Thriller fonts are more blockish compared to ours to emphasise a different message to the audience. For example: