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

• Our media product we decided to use a clear theme, which is rape but not a common one
• Our media product follows the genre of thriller and sub-genre of crime thriller, however crime thrillers normally focus on the criminal but ours focuses on the victim and how the police are helping our victim
• We use different methods in our film opening to show the conventions such as:

-settings

-costume

-music

-dialogue

SETTING- we filmed our opening at night time as this is when most thrillers are set, night time suggests danger and a sense of not being seen. So we thought to use a long path with cars around which creates lots of hiding spots for a killer 

COSTUME- we dressed our rapist/villain in a hoody as we were then able to hide the rapist’s identity, and give him anonymity. Also gives him the appearance he is a ‘hard man’ which is a character used in many thrillers 

We dressed our victim quite confidently and in a revealing dress to follow the theme of most victims in that they are naive and unaware to danger, also her heels suggest if she was being chased she wouldn’t be able to run

And we dressed her in a baggy hoody for the recording scenes

MUSIC-  we use two different soundtracks 

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We used this as it sounds like a typical track used to create suspense and signify danger, it builds up near the rape so our audience know something bad is going to happen

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We use this to portray our victims situation, she is in hiding and as a victim, so we have music to make her seem innocent and also the music is sad and slow and we use it to almost pull on peoples heart-strings so they have sympathy for her.

DIALOGUE- short simple script which tells the victims story, she is telling the interviewee what happened in a factual way and doesn’t say much of her emotions but we see, like any victims, she has been affected by it and she has been troubled by the event.

Our film conforms to the classic 3 part narrative of a thriller 

·         However ours departs from Todorov’s Theory because we use flashbacks during our opening- so our film won’t be set in real time throughout.

·         Events won’t be shown in order and the audience already know she is in the safehouse (the victims journey) before they know the full details of the disruption.

·         Use of classic character roles in thriller- victim, villain and helpers of the victim

·         Our film is told in the view of the victim, we follow her story and we know her opinion of the event before it has happened.  To make it look more like an interview to a video we added a red recording sign and a border around it.

·        Similar to The Lovely Bones which is the story of a 14 year old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who is murdered by her neighbour and she tells the story from heaven. It is similar because we also have our main character, the victim, tell the story to her interviewer as if she is telling it to the audience.

In this trailer we hear the main character, Susie, narrating the story of the film.