1. This high angle close up is of the main character holding a knife to his wrist. A knife is a prop that is used as a murder weapon is lots of thriller movies, this meaning that the actual prop is a conventional prop. A knife can be seen in films such as psycho (A knife is the main weapon seen in this, The character Noram bates), another movie that is seen using a knife is Bourne supremacy (In this thriller the main character Jason Bourne is defending himself against an antagonist who is welding a knife).
2. In our finishing screen we have information about the movie written in white, with a red glow. All of it is on a black background. The black background with contrasting writing is a convention that can be seen in a lot of movies, This being because the text contrasts against the black gives a more clear viewing of the text. This kind of contrast can be seen in movies such as 1408 (In this movie it finishes with a black background and gold writing, this contrasts well because the gold has a faint shine to it) another movie that can be seen using this convention is The Boy ( Uses a very similar final screen to 1408, by this I mean a black background with golden writing).
3. This close up uses low key lighting in a very good way, this can be seen very clearly since our main character in the shot is very dark and the surroundings are very low key light. low key lighting is a very common it can be seen in a lot of very known thrillers such as the Dark Knight Rises, This can be seen in a sewer. Another movie that uses low key lighting is Vertigo, this can be seen when there is a night scene and the character is standing on the ledge of a window. The reason why low key lighting is used, is to emphasise and play with the fear of the unknown, this being because not everything is clearly visible in the dark.
4. This mid-shot uses a black and white filter to connote a past memory which is a very well known key convention of thrillers. A thriller that uses black and white technique is psycho, this mainly being because it was recorded in a time where they only had black and white cameras however the modern day connotation of black and white is importance, this meaning that black and white is used to give the audience a sense of importance in our shot. A flash back can be seen in the movie 1408 this being a common convention since it gives the audience more background information and a basic view of the narrative.
5. This over the shoulder shot shows the character taking some kind of pills attempting to overdose, overdosing is not a very common convention of thrillers however it can be seen in some drama/thrillers. A drama/thriller that uses pills as props is Suicide room ( in this movie the Polish teenage main character wants to kill himself by overdosing on pills). The reason for this convention is so that the audience understands that the character is at the lowest point of his life and sees no way out.
6.This high angle shows our main character Ryan laying on his bed having a break down. We used a high angle to make the character seem fragile and weak, this is a very common seen convention in thriller movies. Characters are made to seem weak and fragile so that the audience feels sympathetic. A movie that uses high angles to make the characters seem weak is the Avengers (This is used in one scene to make both Captain America and Thor seem weak and worried)
7.This is the bottom section of my Magazine cover which shows a lot of conventions that follow professional media products. Firstly There are text side polls linking to other movies that will be talked about in the magazine, this can be seen in Total Film (Issue 244 May 2016). The text is always a colour that contrasts with the background this is a key convention because it catches the demographics attention. I used white text and so did Total film. Another convention is that all Magazine covers have a main movie focus as the background, this can be seen done by Empire (2015 May). In this one there is a clear movie focus of Terminator Genisys, The background shows the main characters ( The Terminator and Sarah Connor). I followed this by putting our main character Ryan as the main focus of the magazine and make him also look at the audience, this following the key convention.
8. This is the bottom half of my Movie poster. The first convention that it replicates is the middle text linking to the title, this can be seen in the movie poster for The Martian. In this movie poster the middle texts quotes "BRING HIM HOME", I replicated this my saying "HIS MIND IS". Another convention that my poster shows is the main character used a s background, I used our movies main character Ryan as the background since it follows the key convention. This convention can be seen in lots of movie posters such as The Grey (Ottway's face is the main focus), Avatar ( close up on Naytiri's face) and Man of Steel ( Superman/Clark K is the main focus).
9. This is the top half of my magazine, the first convention here is having a clear and large Master head that stands out and catches the readers eye. these kinds of master heads can be seen in all magazines (Both Empire and Total film). My magazine follows this convention since the master head
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