In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Use: One of the main conventions of the thriller genre is vulnerable woman, as seen in ‘Single White Female’. The low angle camera shot shows how she is being followed and also reinforces her defencelessness. The isolation of the location again reflects how isolated she is and how isolated she feels. A vulnerable woman is stereotypical of the thriller genre because women are normally seen as the weaker sex and who are normally stalked in comparison with men. Use: By having a strange girl in the film it enhances the sense of mystery, an example of this type of character in a film is ‘Sleeping with the enemy’, the audience continue watching to find out who she is, why she is alone and where she is going. This sense of mystery is reinforced by the driver of the car being unknown and also whether she gets into the car or not. The eerie non-diegetic music in the background also adds to the intense feel of the opening and the close up of the girls face shows her lack of understanding of the situation and what may lay ahead. Develop: Our film develops the use of a phone box as seen in ‘Phone Booth’, in both films the person inside the phone box is being watched and both lives are at risk. A phone box is an ideal location for a thriller film due to its isolated location but also that it is an everyday object, one of which that is never normally seen as dangerous. The lack of other people being in scene enhances the remoteness, and that she has no one to help if anything happens. Develop: In our film we decided to make the walk from the house to the phone box extra long, we did this so the audience understood how long the walk was for the girl even though it actually wasn’t that far away. By having the screen split into 4 sections, it emphasised the length of the walk and also implied how people were watching her the whole time and she couldn’t escape. The split screen allowed us to film the walk in many different angles which also created a chance for her status as a character to be reflected, for example the high angle shot shows her vulnerability.

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

Use: One of the main conventions of the thriller genre is vulnerable woman, as seen in ‘Single White Female’. The low angle camera shot shows how she is being followed and also reinforces her defencelessness. The isolation of the location

again reflects how isolated she is and how isolated she feels. A vulnerable woman is stereotypical of the thriller genre because

women are normally seen as the weaker sex and who are normally stalked in comparison with men.

Use: By having a strange girl in the film it enhances the sense of mystery, an example of this type of character in a film is ‘Sleeping with the enemy’, the audience continue watching to find out who

she is, why she is alone and where she is going. This sense of mystery is reinforced by the driver of the car being unknown and also whether she gets into the car or not. The eerie non-diegetic

music in the background also adds to the intense feel of the opening and the close up of the girls face shows her lack of understanding of the situation and what may lay ahead.

Develop: Our film develops the use of a phone box as seen in ‘Phone Booth’, in both films the person inside the phone box is

being watched and both lives are at risk. A phone box is an ideal location for a thriller film due to its isolated location but also

that it is an everyday object, one of which that is never normally seen as dangerous. The lack of other people being in scene enhances the remoteness, and that she has no one to help if

anything happens.

Develop: In our film we decided to make the walk from the house to the phone box extra long, we did this so the audience

understood how long the walk was for the girl even though it actually wasn’t that far away. By having the screen split into 4 sections, it emphasised the length of the walk and also implied how people were watching her the whole time and she couldn’t

escape. The split screen allowed us to film the walk in many different angles which also created a chance for her status as a character to be reflected, for example the high angle shot shows

her vulnerability.