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When looking at this piece of work, I was looking for the genre conventions and the visual elements.

I could tell that this piece of work was a thriller film because of the:
- Fast cutting and Editing > this showed me that this was a thriller as many thriller's do this to build up the suspense and make the audience feel that something is going to happen
- Running > The character was running around and by his facial expressions, this also built up the suspense and it made me feel like there was something he was running from but it was a mystery (another element of a thriller)
- The gun > This showed me that this film was a thriller as this is a key prop used in many thriller films
- The music > The music was building up suspense and really sounding like music that would have been used in a real thriller film and I thought that it worked very well

Visual elements:
- Close up shot > Close up shots are very popular is thriller films and are probably the shot that is used the most as they tell us a lot about the character. These are the most common shot's used in a thriller.
- Black and White colouring > I feel that the use of this was very good and I feel that this also helped build up the suspense for me
- Tracking shot > This was used very well and built up the suspense and mystery a lot as it gave me a better insight into what was happening, that this man was being chased by someone, the audience may also feel like they are being the one's who are chasing this man too. However, we don't see till the end who is actually chasing him.
- Gun-man-gun-man > this created a lot of suspense and the audience would have really wanted to know what was happening
- Mystery > This is created as we don't know till the end what this man is running away from. I think this is done really well in this opening sequence and although we see the man being shot in the end so we know what has happened and it has given a bit away to the audience, the audience are left wondering and wanting to know why this has happened and want to know the past with this storyline, which is really good for a thriller.