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
On the right is an image of a mind map in my media book of the what conventions we think are in thrillers. In this mind map we cover a wide variety of points which range from aspects of thrillers such as enigmas, red herrings an dramatic irony to what scenes you would expect to see on a thriller film such as murder, kidnapping and car chase. We also included a couple of typical things such as a setting for a thriller, which would be an urban setting like a city, and actors like Liam Neeson or Matt Damon.

Types of Thrillers: Spy Thriller
                            Political Thriller
                            Conspiracy Thriller
                            Legal Thriller
                            Psychological Thriller








The use of conventions in our Thriller
In our Thriller we focused highly on the use of dramatic after the repeated mornings to create a huge feeling of suspense for the audience.We also added music which acts like a red herring as would create confusion as contrasts to what you would usually expect from a typical thriller.
We also didn't want to include any shocks as the use of a masked serial killer and shocks could have pushed our thriller more into the horror genre. If i had to catagorise our thriller in the list above id say it would belonged to the psychological thriller area, this is because of the attempts of trying to confuse the audience and throw them off as much as possible.

Thrillers which influenced us and which ours are similar to


Here you can see an image of Hannibal from Silence of the lambs, our influence of using a mask came from a couple of films but this one was the most notable. The main influence for it is the iconic memorable look which the audience would remember.