Evaluation question 1

Evaluation question 1

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

In our product we used and followed most of the typical codes and conventions of the thriller genre. We used diegetic and non-diegetic sound, enigma codes and different camera angles. We also included a flashback to make it meet the conventions of a real media product.

The main inspiration for our media product came from different British TV thriller dramas. The main influence which we biased our Thriller around was a British thriller called 'The Missing'. We biased this for our main narrative of our media product. The missing is about a family which goes on holiday to France and their son disappears and the series is about the father trying to find the son a few years later. Our media product was made similar to the missing but we chose to have two brothers going to a park and the younger brother would go missing when the older brother is looking away. So our product develops a narrative similar to a real media product

 This is the missing compared to our product.

We used different types of special effects one of them were flashbacks. In the start of our product we included a flashback this was also inspiration from the missing. They show a scene in the missing where the main character is taking on the phone about finding something. So as a group we decided that we could make this scene into a flashback for our opening sequence. We have done the flashback at the start for it to create enigma codes.

A editing technique we have used is the use of slow mo. We used slow mo for it to build tension. We used the slow mo in a few short scenes leading up to the younger brother disappearing. Another editing technique we used is adding in different types of sound. We added in different sounds over the scenes too added more tension. For example one of the shots were the older brother kicking a bench. We added in a louder sound of him kicking the bench to make the sound stand out. We also used a POV sot when the brother is panicked and looking for his brother.

The mise-en-scene was important to our opening sequence. Our location was suitable to the type of characters we had. We chose a park because it was typical of where a child would be or go missing, We also shot this in day to subvert conventions. The typical conventions would be for it to be filmed at night or to have dark lighting. But we subverted these conventions. We made one scene in the park similar to another British drama called 'Remember Me'. The scene we took inspiration from was one scene with a swing swinging on its own.