Sophie Teasdale Evaluation question 1

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

• Our product contains a range of shots (close ups, high angle wide shots etc.) this conforms to other thrillers. Also, like other Psychological thrillers we used non diegetic music of a heartbeat pace which should help create a narrative of a typical stalker. However, unlike other thrillers our opening uses more modern techniques which includes, using Internet sites to sustain our target audiences attention.
  
  
  

• We used close ups when wanting to draw attention to the object, as it slyly puts an image of violence in the audience minds e.g the high angled close up of the murderer crossing off the victims faces (which is also used in Se7en titles).

• Similarly, to other thriller openings our stalker does not reveal his face, we used high angled shots, over the shoulder shots and close ups (his hand on mouse) to create enigma.

• Also, we filmed our titles instead of editing them in after, as we could incorporate it in our opening, this saved us time on synoptic day when we did most of editing and it made our thriller opening more realistic (Like in Layer cake overlapping titles on objects making it seem more visual interesting). Yet, it went against the norms of a thriller film of cutting to black and then having the titles which made our thriller more unique.