Evaluation question 1

Evaluation question 1:

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The conventions of thrillers that feature in our film are changes in the angles of our shots, an antagonist and a possible protagonist, tense non-diegetic music, scenes of action. These particular conventions featured in our thriller because they were the ones we saw as appropriate to fit in our film.

In our thriller, I have found that it is quite difficult to apply any key media theories. One that I can apply, is the enigma code. Because our thriller starts with something that happens during the mid-point of the sequence, it leads the audience wondering how the characters got in to the particular place that they were in this scene. 

A real film that we could compare our thriller to is 50 cents “Get rich or die tryin’.” The reason that I am comparing our thriller to this is because of course that film is also a thriller. Not only that, but that film has similar theme to it. It is based in the streets about young black males in a similar situation to those in the film.

We developed our conventions by watching the film get rich or die tryin' before hand, and getting ideas from it. Our thriller conforms to most conventions of thrillers, as it features different components such as action scenes, and a red herring,being the fact that the film goes backward, and features what would be the mid-point of the film at the end. We have challenged small conventions of thrillers e.g. we do not feature any romance in our thrillers, nor do we feature any binary opposites as the characters in the film are all of similar genders and backgrounds.