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Q3-20 Thriller Opening Evaluation

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

The first still image is of our credits and the design, which we chose to create them. Harry Brown is a film that we feel also revolves around the younger generation, which ours also does, so we used the idea of plain black and white credits. These credits are conventional to it’s urban, thriller genre as they are plain and give nothing away in terms of story line of enigmas.

This still image uses the thriller convention as a still weapon of some sort with blood on it is often used to create enigmas and to represent the genre and sub-genres. We used this knife, along with a gun and a small pack of sweets to represent drugs as our props as we felt we had to give and indication into our thriller by putting questions in the audience’ minds.

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I have chosen this image, as it is our best image that can represent our characters. We have gone with the convention of teenagers who have for some reason got caught up in drugs and violence. It is quite similar to film such as Harry Brown and Kidulthood and we have conformed to some the conventions used e.g. guns, hoodies, confrontations, drugs.

The location we have used in the opening is a mix between a deserted forest area and a kitchen. The forest is the area in which the ‘drug dealing’ and confrontations will take place and these challenge the urban conventions because in Harry Brown and other similar films, the ‘drug dealing’ often takes place in private city areas where they are more hidden and discrete. The kitchen represents the area in which drugs are often used.

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The camerawork used in our thriller opening has been used to try and portray real situations with the use of close-ups and the use of a handheld camera. Using a handheld camera is one of the biggest conventions in action-thriller films and we liked the idea of feeling the tension of a chase scene. These were most commonly used in the Bourne trilogy and it was very successful in adding suspense to the clips.

The genre that we decided to go with was the idea of an urban, drug-related thriller as we found that it went well with our target audience of 15-34 year old males and a smaller group of females. Adulthood is a thriller film that also follows a similar genre and we got some inspiration from it. The credits we used are similar to the ones in Harry Brown and the ones used for the title s of Kidulthood and Adulthood.