Question One: How Does your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

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

During the making of our thriller, we wanted to include as many conventions as possible, in order to achieve the best results.

For example, we decided to set the majority of the thriller at night which is a conventional feature as the audience would feel more afraid for the protagonist/victim.

Also, the torture/rape scene concept was inspired by ‘I Spit on Your Grave’ as the victim gets raped. Also by the way we ended our clip it was unclear on how the narrative would actually end, so the audience don’t know if the victim will live or die, or come back for revenge.

The fact that we decided to include a female victim for our thriller is conventional because the audience will automatically feel more scared for her safety as she will appear much more vulnerable.

Several other movies have include the concept of dramatic irony in the sense that the audience know that somone wants this girl, and something bad will happen at the party, but she isn't aware.
 
Even though the female is subversive in a way that she is wearing dark clothing(which could possibly suggest a darker side) she would be typically conventional because she is walking home alone, at night, through a park. This element
 sort of reflects the plot of 'I Spit on Your Grave' also, as the female is subversive because even though she wears white and is vulnerable at first, she goes to seek revenge on everyone who harmed her.





Out of all the different theories surrounding narrative, I feel that Aristotle's theory has been portrayed through our thriller. This is because he believed narrative was based on deriving emotion from an audience normally through fear or tragedy. As our narrative is about kidnap and torture, the audience are more likely to empathise with the characters and therefore give more of a reaction to the scenes that are being shown.