Evaluation: Question 1

What are the conventions of our Genre?

• We have used the Murder Mystery genre.
• There are not many conventions.
• They can be found in the Prezi I have made in previous posts; Click here to view the post on Murder Mystery research.

• Murder mystery conventions:
  A murder takes place.
  The plot involves the investigation of the murder.
  They focus mainly on the character investigating.
  The investigation has twists in the plot.

Did your research help?

• To find out the conventions of the genre, we had to do some research into similar films first.
• We used the murder mysteries 'Se7en', 'Sleuth' and 'Bullitt'. 
• Doing textual analysis's on similar films helped to compile a list of conventions (Textual Analysis of 'Se7en', Textual Analysis of 'Sleuth', Textual Analysis of 'Bullitt').
• We applied this list when creating the first storyboards.



So did our work conform or the challenge the conventions of the murder mystery genre?

• CONFORM.
• The to get a good grade, we needed to ensure it was clear what the genre of our piece was.
• Conforming to the conventions helped to do ensure this.
• Our opening titles kept to the conventions by the following:

Hints at the plot containing an investigation of a murder.

Used a woman as the victim (links the dominant ideology in Britain; women are vulnerable).

Hints at a twist in the investigation.

• However, we do challenge the conventions of the genre in one respect;

We hint at the murder being a women, where as traditionally the murderer would be male.

• However, we generally CONFORM to the conventions of the murder mystery genre.