Makeeha Ali- Evaluation Question One

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

The opening of our psychological thriller film ‘Education to die for’ adapted the conventions of a real media product, rather than challenging them. We decided to do this in order to emphasise the genre of our film, giving the audience a clear indication on what to expect from our film.

Title of our film

• The title of our film is 'Education to die for', we thought it would be appropriate for a thriller film as it subtly hints to what the film might be about but also creates a sense of mystery, a common convention used in various thrillers.

• The contrast of the black background and white font again indicates a sense of mystery and is similar to other thriller titles that i researched, such as The Prestige.
  
  
• We purposely made the font style of the title formal and in bold letters reflecting the genre of the thriller.

Conventions

• Our narrative plot was similar to a film called 'Cracks' which is set in school through lighting , editing and music we were able to adapt a innocent setting such as a school to fit into the thriller genre.
• The hall scene in our opening sequence creates an atmosphere of isloation and obbsession. As we slowly zoomed into Lucy putting up the picture of Mr Collinson in her locker. The lighting in the hall is very dim and gloomy, thrillers often use lighting as a way to convey thier generic convention.