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


We made this title using Adobe After Effects; we found that Adobe Premiere Pro wasn't sufficient enough to create the desired blood like title. The bloody title complies with the conventions of a typical thriller title, the music also amplifies this.


Our opening setting showed a forest, with the dead victim lay in the middle. This conforms to a stereotypical murder scene, much like something you would see on a film, like S3ven or shows like CSI. Forests are also seen as dark scary and desolate which also supports the conventions of a mkurder scene.

This scene was set in a police interview room, it is dark which supports the conventions of an interigation room, it is also lit low to emphasise the characters fracial expression as the light bounced off the tabkle beneath them onto their faces. Their costumes are also a convention of an investigatior, black and formal.

This is the setting of an office in the police station, very casual with lunch breaks and reminders on the notice board, this is a convention of an office and it contrasts well with the mencaing music and the introduction of the murderer.

This distrubing shot of the killer hides his face which refeclt his personality sneaky and elusive. The high severely angled lighting was meant to represent the light coming from a small window in the jail sell, this supports the conventions of jail cell.

This shot was inpired by the film harry potter and the prisoner of askaban the scene with Sirius Black moving in the news paper.

A screen shot of the victim which supports the conventions of a thriller as it is shocking.

Our immitation of static wich creates confusion another element that supports thriller conventions.