The document discusses a student media project called "Stalk" that was created to conform to the thriller genre. Stalk builds suspense from the start by showing the protagonist running away from an unseen pursuer. Tension is built through diegetic sounds like gunshots and non-diegetic background music. Research of similar thriller films helped inform the opening scene. While the product has no dialogue, the background music allows the audience to understand what is happening and engage with the story. Pleonastic sounds like a heartbeat contrast with the credits to show the protagonist is scared. The goal was to engage and entertain the audience through realistic conventions of the thriller genre.

1. In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
We decided to call our final product ‘stalk’. Our final product follows
stereotypical thriller conventions. We came to a conclusion to use different
types of techniques to conform to a thriller genre.
Stalk conforms to a thriller genre as it builds up suspense from the start
after seeing the protagonist running away from a unseen guy. This makes
the audience want to know what is to come next. We also used digetic
sounds such as a gunshot which builds up tension- we decided to use this
after doing market research which include people filling out questionnaires
and answering a few questions on what they expect to see in thriller films.
We also included non difetic background music which kept the audience
engaged and suspense.
In addition to this before we decided how our opening scene would be we
researched into similar products which are already in the market such as ‘
inception,
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This gave us a few ideas of what to include in our own product.
Furthermore our product had no dialogue in it however the background
music allowed the audience to sympathise with the protagonist and get a
rough idea on what is going on. The background music also kept the
audience engaged with the opening scene as they would have to think
what’s to come
Within our final product we used pleonastic sound which was the heartbeat
which contrasted in line ith the credits, this shoed that the teenaged girl
was scared and frightened.

2. Overall thriller films are meant to engage the audience and make them feel
part of the film. We as a group tried our best to make our final product as
realistic as possible to keep the audience engaged and entertained.