Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The theme of our film was a thriller/murder-mystery so it was essential to include its own conventions. We needed to make the film opening foreshadow aspects of our film so viewers can roughly understand the plot of the film without giving way too much information that will reveal the rest of the story. 


As found in most murder mystery films, we had to include 2 key status characters. One being the person who will unravel the mystery and the other being the villain who caused the mystery. However, we challenged this by making the person unravelling the mystery a murderer to as this fulfils the duty of a guardian angel. This also helps to add a mystery theme as this would not be expected.

Character who is the villain

Character who solves the mystery

One of the themes we had to include in our film was pursuit and murder. We thought about this when making our film as this is commonly found in most murder/investigation films and as we were merging two genres in one, we handpicked different conventions from each genre and combined it together so that the pursuit and murder can take place in a mysterious way.


In terms of editing, a common convention used in thriller/murder-mystery films is the use of fading to black. We used this to add suspense to the scene and to suggest there is quite a dark matter at hand. We also used a limited amount of jumpcuts in our film as murder-mystery films aren't meant to cut to different stories and has a slow progression of the plot.