Evaluation
Our media product follows the conventions of a thriller as the normal protagonist is an innocent, young female and the antagonist is an older male, my product follows this it also follows the convention that the antagonist is stronger than the protagonist, we also incorporated information of the antagonist as in some thrillers the antagonist is a stalker we used that in our product by creating a miniature shrine of the protagonist and placed different snap shots of pictures of the protagonist during the chase scene to shed some light on the antagonist like in ‘Cape Fear’ (1962) in which the antagonist starts stalking his victim. We also used suspenseful, unnerving and intense music during the title sequence this is to build up the tension before seeing any action. In our product we have a chase scene which is a common scene in the thriller genre as the protagonist is on a mission of escape which is almost impossible for the protagonist to do for this scene we have incorporated a dark and slightly aggressive piece of music to match the pace and feel of the chase and to add tension the chase. For the conventions of a thriller there is normally a murder shown which is what we incorporated within our product with our protagonist getting murdered. Another convention we followed was that thrillers take place in dark, remote and unpopulated areas so we used a walkway by a canal under a bridge also for our media prodcut our opening there is no dialogue we only hear a little of ambient sound which is the protagonists and the antagonists footsteps and the birds and the opening ends at the scream of the protagonist. In some thriller openings a murder is shown which in our media product we have included. We challenge conventions by showing our antagonist in the opening sequence as in the thriller film genre you either see the antagonist later in the move or not at all. In our media product represents young, white females as that is our protagonist which is conventional for the thriller genre and our media product also represents an older white male which is conventional for the antagonist in the thriller genre stereotypical stalker/murderer wearing hoodies, jeans. In our product we did not include another ethnicity group as our protagonist or antagonist just like in ‘The Haunting in Connecticut’ (2009) which is a Horror/thriller film where the main roles of the cast are all white.
Looking
back at my preliminary task in which we didn't really know how to operate a
camera or which shots would look best for our task, for our media product operating
the camera was much easier than before and we applied that in our media project
by knowing what camera angles and movements looked most effective for our genre
of film. With a good knowledge on the 180-degree rule was very good so we could
not confuse the audience if we didn't stick to the rule we applied that to our media product by when
filming the side view of the actors running we only filmed on one side and we
did not switch to filming on the other side of the actors. From using Adobe
Premiere for our preliminary task we had a good idea on what effects and transitions
to use for our scenes and importing the music to see what different effects and transitions sounded best.