Q1: In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Overall, our film opening follows the conventions found in most thriller genre films. This helps our audience identify the exact genre that the film is going to be through the first 2 minutes. We drew inspiration from a range of films, but we mainly took a lot from the Eminem Music Video/Short Film - 3AM. This music video showed a varied amount of thriller codes and conventions which helped us come up with the whole idea for our film.

Used	Un-used
we used a lot of shots that didn't reveal certain things, using shadows and camera angles. for example we did not allow the audience to see the protagonists face for suspense.	we failed to use reflections and mirrors which we had originally wanted to use for more dramatic moments like the death scene.
we used a lot of darkness to keep the film quite dark in its personality.	we failed to use a wide range of thriller-type camera angles and shots which may have made the film opening a lot more diverse.
in our thriller opening we decided to use a knife as our killers weapon. we chose to use this because it is a brutal and primitive weapon so it would make our hooded figure seem more animalistic.	we did not use blood. blood is a huge factor in conventional thrillers, we showed a few dead bodies but we didn't go into much detail with gore.
youth. we decided to theme our film around Youth culture. so we gave our protagonist a black hoodie. this widens our audience because it also includes younger people to watch our film. the hood also represents darkness, the colour and the fact that it creates anonymity for the murderer.	we wanted to use a spotlight/street light to shadow over the protagonist while he watches his victim.

my conclusion to the question in hand is that our film follows a lot of thriller-genre codes and conventions to help the audiences recognise the style and genre of the film, identification is the main factor in film making, along side connectivity. the way that the audience feels when they watch the film, this is why we didn't use some of our ideas that we had for our film opening.