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

3. Conventional Features of a Thriller
Film
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Protagonist
Antagonist
Themes
Setting
Iconography
Visual style
Enigmas

4. Protagonist
The protagonist in our thriller is a
detective which is a conventional type
of character to be seen usually in
thriller films such as ‘Prisoners’. He is
researching information and looking
for clues to lead him to finding the
wanted murderer.

5. Antagonist
The antagonist in our thriller is the
‘wanted’ murderer. This is
conventional for thrillers. His stance
and facial expression makes him look
menacing. The costume choice of dark
and black clothes are also
stereotypical of serial killers in thriller
films.

6. Themes
The main theme is crime throughout
the thriller. When the camera shows
the extreme close ups of the words on
the poster it seems the antagonist is
perhaps repeating a murder or
wanting revenge on the protagonist.

7. Setting
The conventional settings in thrillers
are typically locations such as police
stations, abandoned areas etc. Our
action takes place in a library where
the protagonist is doing detective
work. This is not conventional of
thrillers however, we chose this
location as it suits with the role of the
detective investigating. It is
conventional in the fact that there
does not seem to be anyone else in
the library giving the sense of an
eeriness and the feeling he is in a large
empty library.

8. Iconography
The iconography throughout the
thriller is very conventional. Typically
there are weapons in a conventional
thriller and in ours we chose a knife
which belongs to the antagonist.

9. Visual style
The thriller is in black and white which
makes it have an overall feel that it is
set in the past.

10. Enigma
Will the detective find out who he is?
Will he die?
Why does he want to kill him>?
Why does the knife have blood on it?

11. Suspect