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

Many films use different angles for different shots to portray different character emotions and/or grow the relationship between audience and characters. We decided to use this angle-changing technique, particularly close ups in our thriller product for two reasons; to create the feeling of isolation that the character feels, and to create a sense of empathy from the audience for the character.

Shots with very dark backgrounds such as the brick shots provide the sense of isolation more fully and though this is something seen in other films we feel we have developed the shot by having the bricks coming in as if by themselves.

The motion/action shots [two above left and right] both use the convention of a) the dark, shadowy, mysterious villain against the vulnerable female character and b) they are both shot within close proxemity of the action ggrabbing the audience's attention.