1. Evaluation Q1
In what ways dose your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real products?
Camera angles shots and movements
The convention for a thriller in terms of camera angles shots
and movements are shots that are used to create tension and
puts the audience on edge, one example of this is David
Finchers 1995 “Se7en”. As you can see from the picture that
David Fincher uses close ups very well, it uncomfortable and
makes the audience fill trapped. To some extent we wanted to
emulate this. For our opening scene are male lead should feel
claustrophobic and trapped in the interrogation rooms, so we
decided to a lot of close ups (as demonstrated on the left).
Another thriller convention that we stuck to was the chase
scene. Chase scenes are very common in thriller they add to
the excitement when they are done right. For our chase scene
we used a combination of tripod, hand held, close, medium and
long shot to try and make it as exciting as possible. When we
were planning we looked at chase scenes like the one from the beginning of Martin
Campbells “Casino Royale”.
Mis-en-scene
When we were planning the mis-en-scenes we split it up into
the interrogation scene and the chase scene. Both of the
scenes have been done so we had tons of footage to look at.
For the interrogation scene we wanted it to look as real as
possible so we looked at crime thrillers with interrogation
scenes and the interrogation room always looked bear ,with only one light so we had the
some for our interrogation.
For our chase scene we know that we wanted to have it in a
forest so there would be nice contrast with balck and white
that we chose. We picked that forest in perticula because we
felt that it was a kreepy feel, we thourght that it it the scene
very well.
The costume is probably the biggest part of the mis-en-scene that we use in our scene.The
costume is the biggest hint as to when the story takes place, we do not reference it in
dialogue but the narrative is set in the 1920s we tried to communicate that throughtthe
use of the old fashion hats, suit and ties.

2. Lighting
With the lighting we only really done it in the scenes when we were in the
interrogation room because we did not have the equipment to effectivly
light the forest the way we wanted to. For the interrogation when we loked
at other interrogation scenes they only had one light sourse from over head
so we decided to in keep with theis convention.
Editing
Editing like every thing else we slip it into the room scene and the chase scene. For the
interrogation scene we enishaly shot both sides of the conversation but we wanted the
fouces to be on Mr Briar, so we edited the detective out of the shot and just used voice
over for his side of the convosation. For the chase we wanted to give a sence of ergency
we we used quick cut to build the pace of the scene. Using quick cut the make the scene
fill faster is a commonely used editing trick.
Location
We had two locations that we ended up shooting at.fFor the
interrogation scene we shot it in callum’s bed room because
it was esay to use and the walls were plain white which is
what you expect an interrogation room to look like. For the
chase scene we shot it in a forest near my house, we shot
there because we thourght that it would look cool when
converted the black and white and we felt that the forest
looked kreepy egnught to be a place that a murder would take place.