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

After watching a few different films of different genres, romantic comedy, horror and thriller, we decided that the physiological thriller would be one of the best genres for us, as we had ideas of what shots to include and the locations that would match. These locations include abandoned houses, hotels and parks. Similarly we chose to use the location to be a park as it helps to enhance the vulnerability of the girls. By doing this we foreshadow the events that will follow. While filming at the park we made sure that the scenery behind gave the idea of death and mistreatment, the trees that seem barren and bare helps to add to this concept. Along with other films of the thriller genre we have used dark and gloomy shots as this adds to the atmosphere a thriller needs for example in “The Shining” dark gloomy shots are used to emphasise the danger and fear of the woman and boy. Also within “The Shining” there are close ups similar to the one shown above that helps to create fear in the audience as the fact that the character is wearing black suggests gloom and the idea of a killer/criminal. We also have a close up similar to this that helps to show the danger of the ‘stalker’ character within our piece.


After looking at different films we liked the idea of pictures and memories in a box to create the idea of danger and different hints at what has happened to the girls friend. We got this idea from the poster from the film “Memento.” The pictures on the front caught our eye and helped us with the idea of creating the box to show old photos and meaningful objects that show the connection between the two main characters. This is unusual and therefore creates an original aspect in our pieces rather than in any other film.

The idea for our piece was created after we mind mapped what the typical thriller has in it. The main idea we came up with was the idea of a venerable person being stalked, again emphasised by the park location.

While editing we decided that we wanted a quick cut rate that leaded to people wanting more information about the situation that was happening within the film. They also help to draw in the audience, as they don’t know what shot will come next, this adds to the audience wanting to keep watching the film to find out what happens. This is similar to most thriller films openings as they draw the audience in quickly and effectively.