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".

MY THRILLER. (POSSESSED)

This is the finished product of our AS media film in the genre of a thriller.

Promotion.

    A poster to promote our thriller:

This poster was created by our group using the software, Microsoft publisher.  The slogan "Revenge. Like you've never seen it before" is in a scary type of font to express to the viewer that the movie they are going to watch is a horror. The red font on the writing is eye catching and also the colour of blood so is scary and bold.

Finished Editing.

Today we completed all of our editing. we used techniques such as dissolve, fade out and many cuts. This enhanced the professionalism of our film, and made it better. We added titles at the start, which told the audience who the people starring in the film were and who directed the film.

Editing in process.

Whilst we were editing, we discovered that we had to attach some background sound onto the film to deal with continuity. We matched the pace of the music to the clips we had configured. We edited some clips so they were parallel with sections of the music.
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Finished filming completely./onto editing.

With 4 days to go, we have completed every aspect of our thriller filming. It gives us time now to assemble every bit of film off the camera and edit it to a professional standard. We hit a slight blip when we realised today, that a part of our film had been recorded over, however we went to our location and re filmed the small part, so all is okay. The part we had to re film was the part were i have to throw up, due to the fact that i am being possessed in the thriller.
Now we come to the editing part, we have uploaded everything onto the software 'final cut express' and we are trawling threw all our film and fitting everything together to a fluid piece of film.

Thriller conventions