Evidence of Editing (Use of Genre Conventions)

This photo shows evidence that I have used genre convention within my film. Genre conventions are essential for any fil  because they are used to help the audience identify the genre of a film, based on typical codes and conventions of a certain genre. Despite this, people often both conform to and subvert to genre conventions. Steve Neale declares that “genres are instances of repetition and difference” and adds that “difference is absolutely essential to the economy of a genre” which means that films of a particular genre will always have differences as mere repetition would not attract an audience as they would get bored watching essentially the same film repeatedly (Steve Neale's Repetition and Difference Theory).

Here is a behind the scenes shot of me putting makeup of an actor to look like the villain of the film. I added dark makeup and she work dark black clothes. This is a very conventional use of mise-en-scene in a thriller film and often a villains colour palette will be dark. Here I am conforming to genre conventions. However, here I am also subverting to genre conventions because it is uncommon for there to be a female villain in thrillers. Another genre convention that I conform to in this image is that you can see that this is a very character drivem story. Often, in thriller films there is a disturbing plot driven by the villain that creates obstacles for the hero (Propp's character functions theory)