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

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

The genre of film that we have made can be categorised as a psychological thriller. The story is focused on the character played by Lewis. We got ideas for our film by researching films such as Butterfly Effect and Se7en which also fall into this genre.
The whole aim of our film opening was to create suspense to the build up of the film itself, if it was to be created. You will see by our first scene that the interogators travelling from the stairs to the investigation room is dragged out in a way that, along with the music creates suspense to what is happening or going to happen next.
Through to the end of the film opening, the story focuses on Lewis's character and what has happened for him to be in the situation he is in.
Both Butterfly Effect and Se7en have an opening with very low key lighting. We decided to keep the scene of the interogators trip brightly lit. Although the length of time taken and the music used is building up suspense, the viewer is given a false sense of security and therefore wouldnt be expecting the next scene. This is where we introduce the low key lighting, as used in Butterfly Effect and Se7en.
At the end of the interogation scene we use a close up of Lewis's characters face. This allows the audience to become more involved with the character.