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

.Every successful thriller film team uses cinematography, mise-en-scene and editing to ensure that their film follows the generic conventions of shock, fear, tension, mystery and many more. This is so that the audience can create an emotional relationship with the characters and enjoy the film they are watching, this can be specifically seen in ‘Paranormal activity’. The use of the home-made camera effect allows the audience to relate to the characters as they seem like a normal family and that the scary happenings could occur to the audience, making them feel afraid. This can also be seen in ‘Insidious’, the use of a mysterious hidden antagonist creates tension towards the audience as they don’t know what could be hiding behind the black vale. Similarly in our thriller opening, our antagonist (Alice) is hidden by a gas mask, this also creates tension as the audience can’t see what she looks like and why she may be hiding her face. The use of a young antagonist may shock the audience as they would not expect it to be an innocent looking girl which adds the mystery to our opening thriller scene. This element of our thriller specifically resembles ‘Sinister’ by the use of a young female child who turns evil, this creates again, tension and surprise as the audience is shocked by this unusual happening. These elements used in my thriller opening, and real thriller films are generic conventions that are purposely included into the films to make them stand out and have an emotional link with the audience.