Evaluation- Question 1

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

My project uses conventions of thriller with slight twists to its formualtion and challenges to larger parts of the genre. The sound is distinctly strange and unnsettling as I felt the natural sound didnt create impressive atmosphere, although some natural sound could have improved the idea of the characters seclusion, an aspect lost because of my strive to challenge conventions of thriller. The expressionist style (taken from "Dark City") I feel puts emphasis on the mystery element I tried to convey in the narrative as using conventional thriller wouldnt draw the audience to my red herring, a staple of Hitchcockian thriller I attempted to use. My opening focuses on trying to pawn itself off as a combination of the Noir Thriller genre with Surrealism and Expressionist nuances, in the same vein as "Se7en" (1995, David Fincher) , "Blue Velvet" (1986, David Lynch) and Cronos (1993, Guillermo del Toro). Particularly using the mystrious almost fantastical elemnts of "Cronos" creating an element of mystery that almost excels the human character, creating colour in the film (although briefly).

In conclusion my thriller focuses on challengeing the conventions of modern/.conventional thriller in search of creating a mysterious and interesting take on the genre, using arthouse style and using developed directors ideas.