Evaluation.

1.) In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and convention of real media products ?

The key conventions of the thriller genre are to do with sound and editing. The way the film uses quick cuts and camera angles keeps the audience entranced in the story line of the thriller. Music is another key convention as it is used to build up tension. The way lighting is used to create a shadow for example, is a key convention as the tension built up is key towards the success in the audience's eyes of the thriller.
In my thriller we used a variety of conventions to try and keep the thriller thrilling. We used a number of quick cuts followed by different camera angles, to try and keep the audience enticed. We used a P.O.V (point of view) shot a few times throughout as the thriller is about a boy being possessed, and there are shots of him looking at objects est. We also used a mid-point shot aiming at the boy when watching him be possessed as we thought it was the clearest shot to see him being possessed. We used a rhythmic musical beat throughout the thriller to keep the audience on tenterhooks.
We took a slight amount of influence from the legendary thriller released in 1973 (The Exorcist) as we felt it was the most well known and well executed example of a thriller, which involves the main character being possessed by an unseen demon like figure.

Exorcist (1973), our comparison to a real film.

Possessed (2011) our AS level media thriller film.

Our thriller is different to most other Thriller's as most films have a variety of different actors in. Our thriller has only one actor in it ( the man being possessed), we see brief footage of a woman walking with the man, but there is no dialogue used. Our thriller is also different to most, as their is no scene of confrontation between a set of people, instead there is a confrontation between a man and his sanity. The genre of our thriller is a "Psychological Thriller".