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Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My thriller was inspired by a lot of thrillers. With a particular scene from Carol Reed's " The Third Man". Where Orson Well's Character Harry Lime is introduced and also the beginning of the film where close-up shots where shown. These shots have then inspired the location my Opening Sequence.
The use of the tilt shots show confusion and disorientation to the character because they thought Harry Lime was dead but he really isn't. The use of the tilt shots in my Thriller Opening is to show who the perpetrator is, and how was he involved in the murder.
Another way, the Third Man has influenced my
Thriller Opening is with the use of Close Up
Shots in the opening scene, where Holly
Martins was talking about the streets of
Vienna in the 40's.
The use of the close up shot will allow the audience to identify with Mary's (the main character) emotions, which is nervous and anxious because she knows what happened and she's just trying to play along.
I have also used generic conventions in my thriller through the use of my soundtrack. My soundtrack, as I would describe is dramatic and suspenseful thus changing the mood of the scenes as the chord of the soundtrack increases in volume.
I have also linked the names of the characters in my Thriller Opening with the names of the characters in any Media texts. The main character in my Thriller Opening is called Mary, she is a friend of Jane (another character), her character was inspired by a character in a horror film called The Roommate called Rebecca Evans (portrayed by Leighton Meester), her character is called Mary because audiences would usually think Mary is an innocent name but things aren’t always what they seem, which shows that Mary could be a different person. The other characters in my Thriller Opening are called Harry; his name was inspired by Orson Wells’s character in The Third Man, Harry Lime, he was called Harry because his name shows suspicion, as if there is an enigma within him. The last character in my thriller is called Jane; her character is inspired by Jane Seymour (third wife of King Henry VIII) she died innocently because of complications of her birth to her only son Edward.
The location of my Thriller Opening also challenges Thriller Conventions for example Jackie Brown (A action film but still uses Thriller conventions), Quentin Tarantino challenges Thriller Conventions in his films; In this film there was a scene where Melanie was shopping with Louis, and at the end of that scene, shoots her and ends up killing her. The film challenges these conventions, because it was filmed in daytime, when there’s not that much suspense but doing this so, would increase the suspense because there is chance someone else could see what is Louis doing to Melanie. There are also other Thriller films such as Animal Kingdom and The Third Man use Noir settings e.g. light to create a sense of nightmare within the shot. Another way that I am challenging Thriller Conventions is when I had a High Angle Shot of the victim in broad daylight when murdeers in Thriller Films often happen at night time.
By challenging Thriller Conventions, my film would be different from traditional thriller openings because I am doing something different with the traditional conventions, used in Thriller Films.
After I finished filming my Thriller Opening, I originally had two titles to name the film. The first one would be "The Next One" because the perpetrator would end up coming to Mary and the fate of her will be unknown. The other title I had chosen is called "The Betrayal" when Mary walks off with perpetrator, thus making the audience think that Mary had something to do with the murder of Jane, but had to not use it, as this ending would end the film. Then I came to the name "Come Walk with Me" when I reviewed the footage while editing. Instead of her walking off with the perpetrator, the perpetrator takes her hand and the film ends, thus making it mysterious and add enigma.
It can't be seen but
Louis is pointing
a Gun at a public
place in Broad
Daylight.