Our film develops many common forms and conventions of typical thrillers. First and foremost is the costume in which we have chosen. Not so much for the office scenes, but more for the scenes in which Mr. Tate is dreaming and imagining what he could do to Dianne. He is a typical killer. He is all dressed in black, with black hair and is male. This is of course the norm for a murder in a film. An example of this could be Hannibal Lector from The Silence of the lambs as he, as shown below, is seen dressed in black.
Another example of this is he is a young male as the killer is often not seen to be a woman in the majority of films. This is due to the male sex seen to be stereotypically more dominant and forceful than that of a woman. I found a prime example of this was Tony Montana in Scarface as he is a villain and also is a fairly young angry male.
The next similarity we have is the location in which all the fantasy scenes take place are another convention. They take place in a dark forrest, out of the way of any people or anything to disrupt the killer. A further example of this is in The Blair Witch Project, a film in which the whole film is in the woods and bad things happen in there.
The next convention that we have in our film is the fact that the victim is a woman. In nearly all films the victim is a woman as they are usually portrayed to be more helpless and the 'weaker sex' in films. An example of this i found was in the film Last House on the Left, a film in which a female is greatly seen as a victim under the offence of a male figure.
The next convention we incorporated is the aspect of someone in the film having multiple personality disorder. In our film, Mr. Tate is a rather calm person, but another side of him is much more sadistic and wants to physically abuse Dianne. Another film that demonstrates this is Fight Club in which the main character does not realise that his partner (soon to be enemy is in fact himself) is in fact not another person but himself.
The final convention we used was the utilisation of the point of view camera shots during the chase through the woods in which Mr. Tate pursues Dianne. It shows the film from the eyes of the killer and adds the element of you partaking in the crime. Another film that uses this is again The Blair Witch Project, however they use this to show the victim escaping the killer.
As well as using already established conventions, we also challenged a few in our film. First of all the title of the film is P.A, a story which shoes Mr. Tate apply to be an assistant or secretary, a role usually shown as a woman. He is also seeking to be employed by a woman as his boss, a role seen to be a man. This is usually as stereotypically, a high position is filled in by a man and the assistant generally a woman. Below is examples of these two stereotypes in the film Secretary, in which there is a female secretary serving a much more dominant male boss, a prime example of the convention.
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