Evaluation Question 1

1. My product; Disutrbia managed to use, develop and also challenge real life thriller media products in a number of ways. In a thriller film, it is usually expected that there is a main antagonist and protagonist, with the story usually being the two battling each other, with suspense and tension created leading up to this, followed by surprise and shock. Your typical thriller may feature the following conventions, such as a powerful dominant male being the main antagonist and a vulnerable female being the main victim, usually seen with blonde hair, films such as the shining and psycho are both examples of vulnerable female victims being hunted by a powerful male antagonist. Suspense, shock, tension and surprise are the four main elements of a thriller, which are usually built by micro-elements, such as mis-en-scene, sound, lighting and cinematography. My film builds tension in a number of ways, especially during the kitchen scene, where iconography and slow editing is used to build suspense, where Cameron grinding the knife gets slower and slower, coming to a sudden point where he slams it into the plate, the audience are taken away by this, which further draw them into the scene, which then leads into the shock where Cameron kills his own mother. My film also followed the generic conventions of a thriller in a number of ways, having a dominant and unpredictable male antagonist have weak and vulnerable female victims, as Cameron kills his mother and the ending features a cliffhanger where his girlfriend is in danger. This can be compared to a thriller such as the shining, where the main character, Johnny is hunting an innocent, weak and vulnerable female, which is his wife. Although our character is not as insane, he too like Johnny is mentally unstable and the added sense of unpredictability creates suspense and keeps the audience on edge, wondering what will happen next.

Tension:

Shock:

Surprise:

Eery Music

Suspense

Slow editing