Question 3: Evaluation

Question 2: Evaluation

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Question 1: Evaluation

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

Our Thriller ‘Angel Café’ was inspired by many Thrillers and the key influences that the thriller conventions have on the mise-en-scene of a film. The Third Man was a key aspect in the ‘noir’ style to our film – with the strong shadows and key lighting at some points. Also the wonderful cinematography used by Carol Reed, the director, influenced our tilt shots – such as the tilt shots used on doors and windows, of which is echoed in our film by the tilted window shot and also other tilt shots used.

 The enclosed space of the café and the freezer where the female character is locked in is very similar to the enclosed and claustrophobic spaces such as the toilet scene in 'Witness' where the young boy witnesses the murder. The dim, chiroscuro lighting was something that we tried to show and use in our own film. With the lighting only being from inside the café, it is ambient lighting, just like in Witness.

 

The costume for our Thriller was inspired by the costume in Carol Reed's 'The Third Man'. The sleek black coat and wide rimmed hat, which is typical of the 1940s Thriller, was a key influence in the costume of our own thriller. We thought that it creates an enigma due to the man being able to hide himself under his clothes - making the audience not know who he is - remaining enigmatic.