EVAL Q1 ESSAY

I finished yesterday Evalulation question 1.
I did it with an Essay in Word, took screenshots from it and put it into a video on iMovie.

Thisis the draft of the Essay:

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

If you compare my thriller “Dark Vengeance” to a real thriller for example “The Crimson Rivers”, this film is supposed to be a thriller out of the crime/ action sub-genre, but it also includes a bit of psycho genre in it. So both opening sequences include killing, but our titles definitively diver from that one in Crimson River.

The main point is that the titles are on the actual shot and they are not on a black screen between each shot. The use of the black screen was a really important effect for our thriller, because we used it to build up tension and we used the style of suspense, which was invented by Alfred Hitchcook. This is the point where the cases study about thriller at the beginning of the term was really important, to get to know such kind of stylistic device.

The main point of our film challenging the characteristics is that we were actually looking for an adult as the Criminal, but we compensated this really well with the fact that we didn’t show the face of the criminal. We also tried to challenge a real thriller film with the use of a soundtrack, which fits perfect to each appearance of our titles, so this enhances the effect of it. We also imitated the kind of opening sequences of Se7en, because the completely don’t use a voices or speaking/acting in their opening scenes.

They just completely trust their carefully picked soundtrack, which expresses the creepy mood of a thriller perfectly and leaves the audience in expectations. This is the perfect way to draws the audience into the whole film after a short and simple opening sequence. As I knew after my interviews for EVAL Q4 the audience wanted to know what happens next. So this is another point where we imitated a real thriller, because we both had the same purpose with our opening sequences of Dark Vengeance.

We tried to imitate the opening scene of one of the American Crime Series for example: Hawaii Five-O or CSI Miami, NCIS, The Mentalist and NCIS L.A. So we tried to use these kinds of opening scene and changed it into a kind of thriller genre. We both liked these series and set us the challenge to make it suitable for a thriller.

Our Blog worked as a media product, as well. We used a media product to distribute our main product throw the whole world. So our two different media products came together and worked together, this is called convergence. I think it is completely different to a professional blog, because Film Studios that are producing a thriller film are not using a blog to present their whole process to the audience. They are using a whole film-team to create another film beside the thriller to show it from behind the scene.