Conor Sturgess - Q1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Environment and costume.
We initially never intended making our movie seem seem so plain, for instance, the amount of black and white we have used (Clothes, tables,chairs and clocks). But after we uploaded a few clips onto our macs we noticed that the colours gave a strong indication of how she is feeling and her thoughts, so we decided to proceed with the majority of the film having a black and white dominance. These two contrasting colours tend to be used effectively in many thriller films.

Title Font
We all researched a certain of type font which we wanted to have in our opening scene. We ended up finding the font named ‘Segmental’ which we felt gave the correct narrative hint to our opening scene as its the same type of font you will see on a digital alarm clock with the issue of time being the main priority of our film.

Character
We start off by not showing any characters to the audience but instead numbers. Even though you will only see our main character for a few seconds between each clip, this reminds the audience that she is being haunted and disturbed by time.

Narrative
The narrative is strongly hinted in our opening scene. For instance the way the word ‘time’ keeps popping up as well as the number digits, showing she has no escape from time itself. We have also placed life threatening accident sounds onto news headlines and then number digits following straight after, helping the audience to try and link the two puzzles together and realise that they are all caused by linear but irreversible time.


Sound
We chose not to place any music onto our opening scene, as we believed it gave the impression of loneliness to our audience. However, we did in fact insert the sound of a clock ticking. The ticking is not only very important for the narrative, but also is meant to imply her sanity steadily slipping away.


However, what really helped us was the Prezi we each individually created to help with our opening scene. We made a list of vital things to remember when filming which are Mise-En-Scene, Editing, Camera and Sound and then we made a brainstorm under the headings to help. Numerous amount of times I would go back to my prezi and look again at my notes to see what our group could add onto our opening scene.

Thriller Genre on Prezi