Evaluation 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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

A thriller is a movie genre which follows specific devices in order to build a specific reaction on the audience. Often in a thriller genre film, the narrative will centre around a crime. Many popular thrillers revolve about a serial killer on the loose. The purpose of this is to try and convey a lot of action in order to ‘thrill’ the audience. 

'Eagle eye' is a good example of a real thrillers that correctly emphasizes the use of the conventions of thrillers like the ones previously stated. Two characters shown on the left portray a young man and a single mother who are brought together and coerced by an anonymous caller into carrying out a plan by a possible terrorist organization. This reinforces the narrative idea about thrillers based around a crime in order to portray action to 'thrill' the audience. 

Our thriller is has a similar crime convention. It is based on the masterminding work of a spy/agent/ who can easily plan and execute the delivery of a fatal radiation bomb. Its different to most thrillers as it isn't based on the usual victim run away from killer movie. It's more of a what could happen rather than a I know what will happen, as that's the usual disadvantage with serial killers and victims. They either get away or not, whereas a Thriller such as mine can have so many different happenings that it sometimes the audience doesn't expect.

This is an image from the film 'The Recruit' which has similar scene setting to my thriller opening.

This is another of the many sub genres involved with thrillers. Spy thrillers are most commonly known to have a lot of suspense in them as they need to effectively catch the viewer’s attention and make them want to watch on. Suspense is built throughout my thriller as you see the character walking with a suspicious looking bag and fast paced music in the background, this makes the audience wonder what is going to happen. I would compare my film to a film such as ‘The Recruit' as is it originally a spy thriller but if we created the rest of the film it would also involve action.

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