Research - Convention

       What codes and conventions are your conforming or subverting? 

         As you should know, the production that we are creating consist the genre, Thriller/Drama. Firstly, How does the production conform to the conventions of thriller? Well lets start with the sounds and the music that will be used. In most thriller movies, the music played in the background creates suspense in which our product will also  do. The reason for this is that the audience will be aware the product is a thriller offering them safety as they will know what content will be included as well as fulfilling their needs of a thriller genre movie. Therefore, our product will be conforming to thriller in terms of the music. In terms of sounds, our product will consist sounds of a footsteps (digetic) as well heavy breathing to also build up suspense. The sounds of footsteps coming from an unknown location is seen in many thriller movies or TV shows such as Stranger Things, conforming to the conventions of  a thriller text. 

           A variety technical codes  will be used for our production such as camera angles, lighting, voice-overs  etc. In terms of lighting, low –key lighting will be used in some scenes  to make it more dramatic  as the product is meant to be drama and thriller. Low-key lighting is seen in many dramas and thrillers which therefore means we will be conforming to their codes as well as shadows being used to create a dark, suspense atmosphere. However, our product will not be using black and white shots which can be seen in many classic thriller movies, therefore challenging the conventions of thriller. This is good as gives the audience more excitement as they would not expect that, engaging them even more as they would want to see what other new things would be included that they wouldn't know about. 

         Moving on to visual codes, our product will consist a variety of codes helping the audience to understand the product for instance, the location. In most scenes the location will be in a dull , small room to create an isolated atmosphere. During this scene one of the characters with be in there playing as a psychotic man. The use of the camera angles used during this scene will engage the audience with camera angles such as over the shoulder, where they will get the perspective of the character. The use of the props being used will challenge the conventions of thriller for example, knifes are stereo typically seen in thrillers as well as other weapons however, our product will not consist any weapons challenging the conventions. For some viewers this may be shocking however, for others this will make them curious on how the product will be made to reach the requirements of a thriller genre. The use of acting will be dark as in mist thrillers/drama movies, the acting are rather dark to build suspense where as if the acting  was more positive (happy) a different atmosphere would be created such as a happy atmosphere, which doesn't conform to thrillers/dramas. Overall, the product will conform most of time to the conventions of thrillers in order to reach the needs and requirements of the audience however, the product will aim to challenge some of the conventions in order to give a little bit of excitement to the audience.