EVALUATION 1

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

We have taken inspiration for the following thriller films:

Clockwork Orange (1973, Kubrick)

Shutter Island (2010, Scorcese)

Physco (1960, Hitchcock)

Thriller is one of the most popular genre of films, they seem to provide a psychological experience as you watch itfollowing an exiting journey. With the characters they seem to put the character in and tense situations. In our film we have followed the conventions of thrillers by building up suspense. We do this with the music and dark shots and an extreme close up shot of the eye looking deranged. We try to put the character in a sense of danger.

Similar to Clockwork orange we have created a mystical enigmatic sense and making the character more mysterious and interesting we have done this with camera shots, with the close up of the face and eyes looking directly into the camera and then the slow zoom out gives a deranged sense of a mental person. This is similar to the opening scene from Clockwork Orange with the strange person with the deranged looking eyes. The person is also compounded by the surrounding being compacted in by the lockers and the back wall.

We have also done this with the editing. In the scene of the extreme close up of the eye shot we have added red saturation onto the eye through the imovie software. We also did this with our music creating a tense atmosphere and giving a strong feel about what is happening as it compliments the atmosphere already created. Prison scenes are part of most thriller films and this adds to the conventions and sense of enigma within the thriller.

Our Character creates a great power of suggestion of being dangerous as in the mise-on-scene he is wearing a straight jacket which is iconic in presenting the idea that he is a threat and has to be restrained in such a way. It also installs fear when he is unlocked and escapes making audience wonder what will happen now he is out and who let him out ?