1. In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our opening sequence uses conventions common to many
thrillers, for example our opening scene pan shot over letters which gives the
viewers a numerous amount of ideas related to what the letters may be about and
what they are for and why the word “failed” is written in big bold capital
letters which builds up suspense in a lot of ways because it keeps the audience
on their toes about what’s going to happen next. These effects used in suspense
thrillers can be seen in the opening sequence of Identity 2003 directed by
James Mangold which starts off with a pan of newspapers cut outs on a table in
a dark room with only one form of light which comes from a lamp. I find that at
the start of thrillers like those stated above they start off a story at what
you see and hear in the beginning is always a key part to what happens in the
next film or towards the end, also while the camera scrolls across the
newspaper cut outs in Identity there is a soundtrack with a low tempo and pitch
paying in the background which I think adds suspense because usually when
something starts off slow it’s because they’re building up to something so I
feel it gave me the audience something to look forward to, this to me is a key
part in thrillers because it builds up the tension an makes the viewer feel
like they have to know what happens next because the newspaper cut outs mean
something. Lastly, the titles of thrillers are what make them what they are for
example “identity” gives away many ideas of what the film might be about and
gives audiences who like thrillers the chance to try and predict what the film
may be about before they see and I believe that’s why in police shows that have
murder they always show the victim dying in the beginning so that a “who did
it” concept can come into the viewer’s mind because while they watch it they
are trying to fiqure who did it before the show ends which is what keeps them
interested and watching from beginning to end, an example of a detective/ cop
show that does this is “Diagnosis Murder” which at the beginning of every
episode shows someone getting killed and say around 10 minutes after that they
reveal a list of suspects which could of done it and may make one person look
like they done it so that you/I the viewer can put together a story in our minds
of how they did it and when according the show. In our opening scene it appears
that our challenge is going to be how were going to build up suspense in the
film and made us have to rethink the initial idea and change the story a little
bit because the title “Over the edge” can either tell a lot of stories or none
at all so we will stick to the suspense thriller an may adjust it so that the
audience create an who done it situation instead of making every key part in
the opening sequence happen quickly because it I now clear to us that the idea
of a suspense thriller is for people to create an idea in their mind of what’s
going to happen and slowly build up to the idea of what’s going happen, how and
why. So we had to rethink what the initial meaning of “Over the edge” was and
how we can adjust it by adding in other ideas and we have done this by adding
in another character at the end of the opening sequence which will keep on the
edge of their seats and to this we may add an action match to our parallel edit
and how to make it seem like it was part of the plan all along.
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