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

Have we challenged conventions in our opening sequence?

Our opening sequence seems to follow most of the conventions of a psychological thriller movie. There is:

- Low Key Lighting
- Death/ Murder
- Tension Building Music
- Fast Paced Editing
- Build Up Of Enigma
- Antagonist/ psychotic(?) character*

(*It is unclear if the escapee is actually psychotic or whether they just have mental problems in the opening sequence)

There are only two things that our OS doesn’t seem to do. There is a murder in the OS, but it is not clear whether this person was killed, who was murdered and who committed the murder. The other thing we did not do was build up a strong understanding of the main character. She acts quite spontaneously (i.e. when she abruptly leaves the conversation with Nadia) and her mood changes throughout the OS. This may be confusing to the audience but we did this for a specific reason. Our plan for the rest of the narrative was that she would find out more about herself from Natalie and the other characters. The audience were supposed to pick up and understanding of her as the narrative progressed.