Challenging forms and conventions of the media

My piece does not really challenge the conventions of thriller genres, for instance we have chosen a blonde haired blue eyed girl (Kayleigh Hobbs) to be our victim, and this is a deliberate choice for us as it helps to familiarise the viewer to the genre of film that we have elected to do (thriller.) We have also kept to conventions by having a male being the murderer; we did this for similar reasons as the first cast. When we film the murderer we use low shots, this makes him seem very powerful, in contrast we use high shots on our victim, by keeping to these conventions the viewer can become fully emerged in the storyline that we have created.

We have however challenged some conventions by making the murderer seem very normal, he has a job, wears suits, goes to work every morning, this challenges many conventions of a thriller, the killer is usually seen as lower class/ demographic (C1-D) we have made him upper class, this makes him more liked by the audience as he seems very normal to the audience. In this way we manipulate the audience to like and dislike him at different points in the film, we can do this using a variety of different camera shots, for instance use a tilted shot when we want the audience to dislike him, and use straight/steady shots when we want them to like him.