Evaluation Question 2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

How gender is represented?

In our Thriller Gender can only be lightly touched upon cause there is not much you can say about the main character, except how he didnt act as a typical dominant male who would have put up a fight against the killer.But with the killer their identity is unknown so you cant determine whether or not they are male or female.



How is Age represented?
In our Thriller it shows an independent young person living alone, this in itself is very uncommon and highly contrasting to the usual stereotype of a young person. The same problem with the representation of the killers gender is also applicable for their age as it too is not known.

How is Class Represented?

The protagonist in our  thriller comes across as being well refined and organised, and this could give the  impression he  belongs in the  higher class of society. and by being attacked in his own home could give the impression that those in higher classes are vulnerable to those who are below them in society.    

How is ethnicity represented? 

Ethnicity is also another one which is not really represented in anyway, also again the killers ethnicity is too not revealed to the audience. 

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

The Conventions of Thrillers
On the right is an image of a mind map in my media book of the what conventions we think are in thrillers. In this mind map we cover a wide variety of points which range from aspects of thrillers such as enigmas, red herrings an dramatic irony to what scenes you would expect to see on a thriller film such as murder, kidnapping and car chase. We also included a couple of typical things such as a setting for a thriller, which would be an urban setting like a city, and actors like Liam Neeson or Matt Damon.

Types of Thrillers: Spy Thriller
                            Political Thriller
                            Conspiracy Thriller
                            Legal Thriller
                            Psychological Thriller








The use of conventions in our Thriller
In our Thriller we focused highly on the use of dramatic after the repeated mornings to create a huge feeling of suspense for the audience.We also added music which acts like a red herring as would create confusion as contrasts to what you would usually expect from a typical thriller.
We also didn't want to include any shocks as the use of a masked serial killer and shocks could have pushed our thriller more into the horror genre. If i had to catagorise our thriller in the list above id say it would belonged to the psychological thriller area, this is because of the attempts of trying to confuse the audience and throw them off as much as possible.

Thrillers which influenced us and which ours are similar to


Here you can see an image of Hannibal from Silence of the lambs, our influence of using a mask came from a couple of films but this one was the most notable. The main influence for it is the iconic memorable look which the audience would remember.

Our Thriller: The Routine

Here is our complete version of our thriller.

Rough Edit & Storyboard

 Rough edit for the opening of our thriller.

And here is the Storyboard for our Thriller:

Sound in our thriller

In our thriller to we added sound effects to emphasise the tense moments in our opening, for example we added a low frequency bass sound to emphasise his shock as he discovers a blooded knife in his kitchen drawer. This sound was edited on a program called Fruity Loops, and the sound was created by using the sound of a kick drum on the program and lowering the pitch to create a low bass sound.

Here is an example of what the programs user interface looks like. as you can see on the far left there are many instrumental sounds which can be selected and edited by changing the length and pitch of the sound.

How our film meets thriller conventions

The way our film meets the conventions of a thriller is how the film starts off really contrasting to what you would usually expect from a thriller, this done by adding a red herring which is joyful music in an attempt to throw off the audience and cause confusion by being unsure as to what the thriller is about.


Another convention is we based our thriller about a serial killer but by kidnapping the main character and not killing him we have steered clear of a horror genre.

Also we use a build up of suspence when you find out the killer is in the main characters house, and this suspence grows as you can spot the killer behind a glass door as the main character runs out of the kitchen to the front door. Also just before the killer attacks the main character there is a shot of him peaking around the corner of the door frame, this is the final inection of suspence until the point were you think the killer may reveil his identity but he still has on his mask.

Mise en Scene of our Thriller

The aspects of mise en scene in our thriller consist of lighting:

Costume:

Here is an image of the main character of our thriller and the costume which is worn through out his morning routine.  

Here is an image of the killer with his mask on.

Here is an image of the makeup being applied to the killer to make the surrounding area of his eyes  more dark creating a more sinister look with the mask on. We also made sure the killer was dressed all in black to create a mysterious facade for the killer.

Props:

The props we included in our thriller was a kitchen knife which the main character used in the morning to cut his apple. we also covered this knife with fake blood for when the main character finds it on the forth day. 

Our Film Editing

In this post I have screen shots of the process of editing our film on Sony Vegas

In this Screen shot you can see the first repeated day is complete and cut down to the appropriate length.

Here in this screen shot you can see us trying different zoom effects to make what the killer wrote on the mirror more obvious for the audience.

Music of our thriller

We chose to use this song which gives a rather happy and jolly feel to the film, this creates the contrasting effect to the genre to throw off the audience and to cause slight confusion as to what they are watching. Also the phrase:
"Everyday i seem to turn around
I'm on my back again
coz i know there's something
better than the tomb I'm living in"

This relates to the main characters repetitive morning and schedule and what gives the film its name.

What audience our Thriller appeals to

After looking over our thriller we came to the conclusion that it would be suitable for an audience which ranges between the ages of 12  upwards. We came to this conclusion because as the film features a moment where one of the characters gets attacked by the killer so we thought this featuring of violence. Also our film doesn't contain any major violence, drug use, sex or any other graphic images which means it wouldn't be rated a 15 or 18.

Completed Ident

Here is the finnished ident for our thriller .