Evaluation 1; In what ways does your media product use, develop or challange forms and conventions of real media products?

I have chosen to compare my shots with 'A Touch of Evil'. I will use the shots to speak about conventions of a thriller.

The long shots in 'A Touch of Evil' are used to establish the setting which is very conve

ntional of a thriller movie. We used a pan for our establishing shot.

The shot panned around the room until it found Sarah standing doing her makeup. We were careful not to show much

of her, hiding her identity.This would create an

enigma code and arouse suspicion, in the audience, from the start of the film.The shot also starts to tell us about Sarah's character; the room is fairly big and suggests she is from a 'comfortable' background. The cream and baby pink walls have connotations of innocence and are typical of a 'teenage girl'. However apart from this the shots main purpose is to set the scene.

The other establishing

shot we used was a pan from the sky to David's house as

Sarah rings on the doorbell. This establishes the area we is very suburban and allows the audience to familiarize themselves with

it, signifying that something of importance will happen here.

Another convention of a thriller is an iconic item

. In the 'A Touch of Evil' shots above we see a close up of an explosive. In our opening it is drinking glasses. We filmed a close up of the glasses as

David pours Vodka into the glasses. This amount of time this shot is shown for is very long for just watching someone pouring a drink this suggests to the audience

that the drink is significant in the plot. In most thrillers the antagonist has a certain weapon significant to them. In our thriller the drink is David's weapon which he spikes with Rohypnol.

Like ' A touch of Evil' our thriller follows two characters; a antagonist and a prot

agonist. Sarah is shown in a very innocent light with a girly bedroom and clothes. The first sequence of shots focus's on Sarah which builds a relationship between Sarah and the audi

ence making the audience sympathise with her. David however is a dark character the first time we see his character he looks very mysterious as we only see his dark shadow. His facial expressions are misleading and the audience feel uncomfortable watching him as they start to see

the story unravel.