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

My media film closely follows the typical genre of thriller for many reasons. Firstly, I play on the stereotypical role of a weak, helpless female victim being abused by a male muscular perpetrator. In many classics such as Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' the main scene consists of a defenceless woman being repeatedly stabbed by a mysterious male. Furthermore the use of creepy and eerie non-diegetic music along with the dark mise-en-scene is very common in thrillers. Typically before a climax or the anti-climax, creepy music is played to build-up the climax and scare the audience. Finally, iconography which is defined as a pictorial illustration of a subject is followed closely by my film to give typical conventions of a thriller. If there was no music, I still feel as if the audience would still interpret my film as a thriller because of the striking images I have shown throughout the opening scene of the film. Overall, I asked 30 people, which aspect of my film, gave away the genre being a thriller. With 10% agreeing it was the music, 33% saying the flashing images and special effects made it obvious and the final 57% claiming they thought it was a thriller because it was similar to the openings of other thriller films they have watched.