Murder By Numbers, A Crime Thriller

The Conventions
Suspenseful music is involved throughout nearly the whole clip that we watched. This keeps the audience on the edge of their seats. As the first clip you see is a run down building on the edge of a cliff with ambient sound, this too makes what you are seeing look intereging to the audience. The first characters you see come across as quite young, until you meet the next main character, played by Sandra Bullock who, who plays an adult and the rest of the cast in her detective group are too. Sandra plays a clever police woman, who appears to become isolated quite soon after looking into things that maybe other detectives wouldn't. The story line also goes back and forth,  between the detective group and the younger characters, which makes the story line misleading as you begin to wonder as whether they committed the murder, making them to the audience suspects and Sandra the lead detective.
the characters are usually well known and good looking, and there is nearly always a contrast between younger and older characters. the protagonist will always have a father figure and a variety of settings within a certain area where isolated crime scenes are made which is very stereotypical.   


Filming and Editing
A lot of the filming and editing techniques are the type of ones  you would expect to see in a crime thriller. A jump cut from the titles to the first scene (an establishing shot) immediately creates attention and attracts the audience. Low angle shots are used to show importance of characters and long shots also help the audience to get a feel of being a voyeur, standing and watching what is going on from a distance but not being involved in the situation. Close ups are a common in a crime thriller because the audience always need to see the fine details to follow what the detective see's, looking at the small clues and realising how important these clues are to find who commited the crime. A less likely filming technique is panning, which is used in the film and helps the audience to see where the characters are and what is going on.

Characters
You are introduced immediately to two young main characters, who will obviously play a main part in the film and are shown attempting to kill themselves. As the characters are in an isolated house, it makes them seem as they are slightly weird to the audience, which also makes them seem quite isolated to their life. You are also introduced to a homicide detective who comes across as confident and a little fierce from the sort of comments he makes to other detectives. As you watch the way she works through her job, you realize that she is actually quite isolated herself as she looks into things that others wouldn't normally think about doing.