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

For mine and Harrison's film opening, we decided to go with the genre of thriller. As well as meeting this specific genre it also challenges the typical conventions.

As we were aware, we knew that the conventions of a thriller film used suspense, tension, excitement as their main elements and will usually have a criminal or murderer. There is also normally some sort of main plot or chase scene. We have captured this through showing the police officer coming out of the police station as if something is about to happen. We have filmed flora walking through various different rural areas with not many houses as if she was trying to dodge any busy places, which you would kind of expect from a thriller film.We have built tension through the use of editing, by making things slow motion as well and using fast clips from different angles. Byhaving a police voice over and a helicopter sound at the very start of the clip gets the viewer interested as to what the film is about as opposed to having this sequence in the film where it is more obvious as to what the clip is going to be about.

As well as following the typical conventions of a thriller film, it also follows those of an action one. Conventions of an action film would include a hero, fights, chases, explosions and car chases. In our film opening we have included a selection from the list which make us think that the clip would follow an action convention as well as a thriller one. Its a chase when the helicopter at the beginning and police officer at the end are searching for the actress and you can expect an explosion when she drops a bag at the end.

You would expect a film following the conventions or a thriller or action film to be quite dark and mostly filmed at night time, but we have filmed it through-out the day. At the end when she is in the market square everyone is still lively and happy, not knowing what is to be expected.