How does ‘The Missing’ use, develop and challenge the forms and conventions of a real media product

1: There is frequent motion, which does not only give speed to the story, but keeps the story going as well.
(Peter following/chasing Kate takes the most time of the film)

2: At the end there is a Cliff-hanger.
(Last shot is of Kate and you don’t know what happens next)

3: There is a sense of suspense, this is established by the use of different camera angles and camera shots, such as a close-up or low-angle shot.
(The feeling of uncertainty is definitely present in my point of view because you do not know what is going to happen next. This suspense combines perfectly with the cliff-hanger because the uncertainty, tension and the thrill builds up)

4: The use of music is also a part of the suspense, the up-building music, together with the bird's 'singing' creates a particular, maybe even strange, atmosphere as these two aspects don't normally combine together as it is too contrasting.

5: ‘The Missing’ is a psychological thriller
(Psychological thrillers are focused on the plot, but ‘The Missing’ tends to reverse this; it emphasizes on the characters just as much).

6: 'The Missing' contains schema characters which you would also find in other thrillers, such as an innocent girl and a stalker.

Other Psychological thrillers;

7: The sequence starts of showing the audience an equilibrium. Everything is still in balance, nothing has happened yet and everything seems to be normal. In the opening shot a train is driving into it's stop.















8: After this shot the platform is shown with two girls happily talking to eachother.

9: The disequilibrium is shown when one of the main characters walk towards the woods and it is obviously shown that she does not see someone standing against a small building. The person standing against the building looks very suspicious.

10: It is obviously shown that the person standing against the small building starts walking when he sees the girl. Showing the audience that something might is going to happen further in the story.