Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge the Genre's Conventions - Evaluation

Our title sequence does not try to challenge conventions in any way, as we use multiple generic triggers of the genre that are used to instill a sense of fear and increase the amount of tension in the scene, such as the mirror scene or the various POV shots.

Moreover, we use the conventional order of opening a scene, with an establishing shot opening up the entire piece, which then pans to a side alley.

Furthermore, the connotations of the dialogue intrinsically link with the thriller genre, as foreboding glimpses are given to the audience to reveal the eventual death of Tom. one example of this is given when Shira (Tom's girlfriend) is having an argument with Tom; "If you don't stop drinking like this you're going to die!" That phrase at the end is used only moments before Tom's death, showing that Shira almost knew that he was going to die and gave him a fair warning only seconds before his demise. This foreboding speech is only one of the many elements that are used in thrillers to show or foreshadow a person's accident or death.

In Addition, the black hooded jacket used by the killer is directly linked with the grim reaper and death. These two images embed a sense of fear within the audience, as death is seen as a frightening experience, and the image of a hooded black creature is often labeled as 'The Harbinger of death' which creates both suspense and fear whilst retaining all of the genre's conventions