As Media Evaluation- Question Three

Question 3-

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

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The generic conventions of a thriller are, dark lighting, suspense filled soundtrack, unexpected sounds and a series of camera angles, to name a few. These are all presented in successful thriller films which, support us as a group using them as we know that they have made a positive impact prior. As a group we researched past thriller films in order to collect a wide knowledge of conventions, their impact and their success rate. For example: a conventional storyline to a thriller is the use of an unknown caller which, we as a group first indenitifited in scream. As a group we used the use of an unknown caller in our thriller to make sure we were being generic and were displaying to our audience a sense of foreboding. Having we had not taken this research, other aspects we used such as low key lighting which is seen in Prom night, and a suspense filled soundtrack which is seen in The Conjuring, we wouldn't have known how to use them to their full effect. These were used in our thriller at different points. Low key lighting was used throughout, but, we used a relatable setting which too is a convention. We used a train station as our target audience were ranged between 15-18 and would currently be using public transport to get home perhaps late at night. By using this, the audience were relating the events that took place to the characters to themselves. Our opening sequence defines the thriller genre as it obtains many micro elements of the genre throughout the duration of it, if we was to compare our thriller to another film it would be final destination in regards of this. Our story line is slightly simular and the use of transport being used is also evident in ours, other micro elements that are simular are the use of high pitched music which, is used in our thriller. Both our thriller and Final Destination use the use of high pitched music when the main part of the thriller is about to take place, this means we can define to our audience when certain parts are going to happen. 

Over the years many media distributors have created a reputation for themselves that ensure people wanting to have their film distributed by their company. Having created my film, it allowed me to place it within the thriller genre firmly and think and consider what company may have distributed my film to the public. One media distributor I considered was LimeScape. LimeScape distributed the Saw films to the public and although Saw is a hybrid between horror and the thriller genre, I saw similarities within the Saw films and The Continuity (My thriller). Simulaities I found and discovered were the continuous storyline and the use of the suspense filled soundtrack. Having seen similar conventions used with a film that was distrubted by a company, allows me as the maker of my film, to consider my film perhaps being distributed by them too due to the similar nature.