Our film began showing the main character, who is dressed in mental hospital clothing and her costume was made to be dirty to suggest her insanity. This is a convention which we used from typical thrillers. Chandler said that genre is "a type of film, with familiar conventions and characteristics to identify it by". We have used these "familiar conventions and characteristics" within our opening to set up the genre. As well as our main character, we used a young child who we edited to make her sem like a hallucination to the audience this questioned the main characters mental state and again showing her with psychological difficulties.
The location, where we shot did not conform to the typical conventions of the thriller genre as it was a normal garden however the reason for this choice was because it was secluded so that we could emphasise the characters loneliness. To make the location conform to the genre we used editing to darken some of the shots, and decrease the sharpness of scenes to let the audience see the dazed point of view in which our character is in.
Steve Neale said that "genres evolve and develop over time" contrasting to this theory, our opening and plot for our thriller was made to conform to the basic rules and structure of a thriller. More specifically we conformed to the sub-genre, making our conventions more specific. Creating a hallucinating effect on the camera influenced the stock characters, which we used.
Altman, another theorist, explored the three pleasures in which he believed are provided for audiences. These pleasures being, "emotional, visceral and intellectual puzzles". Our thriller conformed to all three of these pleasures. First of all our film is shown from the main characters point of view creating a bond and bias like for her. This bond is continued throughout with close ups, and learning she was/is a mother because she is then seen as a mother figure to the audience. Sympathy is created as the enigma code is revealed to the audience, because they learn that she has ended in this mental state because of an abusive and struggling past.
Secondly our thriller conformed to creating a visceral pleasure. The largest example of this was created through our soundtrack and foley, because we used this to create suspense The foley of the main character scratching the wall was used to make an eery atmosphere, and as this is at the beginning they do not know anything about the character therefore do not know what is going to happen. Following this the enigma code in our thriller is the intellectual puzzle, for the audience to work out. The mystery which we gave our audience was "what has happened to the character?" and "who the child is?"
To guarantee that we created a thriller movie, we had to thoroughly follow the conventions of the genre. When planning it seemed very difficult to challenge the genre without resulting in making a different genre film. This is what challenges Abercrombie's theory that "Genre is dismantling the boundaries and therefore becoming more permeable".
