In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
In our opening of a thriller we portrayed many thriller conventions such as the hermeneutic code, one of Bathes' Main thriller codes, which portrays an unexplained sequence to the film. this is shown in the part where the phone call is made from an unknown source, this is a mystery to the viewer. The viewer may feel as though the person behind the phone call may be the villain. This creates suspense for the viewer and a guessing game is created in their mind. The final scenes when all is revealed and all loose ends are tied off and closure is achieved. In addition, the Todorovs' theory can also be applied our opening sequence. Although it is not very clear, a state of equilibrium has been portrayed in our opening sequence. The viewer is uncertain about who plays which role in the film, this can be classed as the Enigma code. The way the tension is built up and the audience is left guessing what happens next, this is portrayed near to the end of the sequence when you are able to see a mysterious hand landing on the shoulder of the 'Mother'. This convention was developed throughout the sequence as we have made suspense the main culprit for the audience.
Our opening sequence can be compared to other films in the film industry such as kidnapping story line which usually add a sense of fear and angry in the emotions of the audience. Usually, films with this type of story line tend to be very physiologically difficulty for the audiences to comprehend. In addition, our thriller opening sequence has a challenged the Vladimir Propps' convention, whereby it doesn't abide by the rules of this theory. This is because Vladimir Propp proposed that there is a struggle between the hero and the villan. Although, it seems like our opening does portray the conventions but it challenges it because of ethnicity and gender throughout the sequence. Films such as 'Copy cat' (1995) which was an agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
Our opening sequence can be compared to other films in the film industry such as kidnapping story line which usually add a sense of fear and angry in the emotions of the audience. Usually, films with this type of story line tend to be very physiologically difficulty for the audiences to comprehend. In addition, our thriller opening sequence has a challenged the Vladimir Propps' convention, whereby it doesn't abide by the rules of this theory. This is because Vladimir Propp proposed that there is a struggle between the hero and the villan. Although, it seems like our opening does portray the conventions but it challenges it because of ethnicity and gender throughout the sequence. Films such as 'Copy cat' (1995) which was an agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
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