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

Conventions of a thriller being conformed to

- Tense non-diagetic music to build suspense, but ours was different to the music/sound in the film openings we researched before as ours had an R&B beat to it.

- Rapidly sped up scenes to create illusion of distortion and unnaturalness. This is also done in 'The Ring' whilst Samara was climbing out of the well which makes her look really freaky e.g. at 0:52 - 1:05.

- Pleonastic sounds such as heartbeat generates psychological sense of fear and anxiousness.
- The storyline of vengeance which holds connotations of murder like many thrillers.

- Thrillers are supposed to keep the audience guessing.  Our opening is similar to Seven in how there are extreme close ups of Beth making something unknown, so there is something being hidden from the audience that increases their curiosity.

- The genre of a thriller is challenged by our feminine opening making it seem almost soft, similar to the opening of Obsessed with the romantic soundtrack. This is unlike the strong, effective impacts of some thriller openings like Seven.

Conventions of a drama being conformed to

- Broken relationship, dramatic confrontation.  Like Obsessed where there is a relationship extabliahed in the opening.

- Crying/emotional