This document evaluates how a media product uses, develops, or challenges conventions of real media. It provides examples from the thriller of titles using an old-fashioned typewriter font fitting with the spy/politics genre. It also includes shots of secret documents similar to films like Godzilla, a person climbing stairs like in The Dark Corner to create suspense, a close-up wedding ring shot like in On Her Majesty's Secret Service to foreshadow, and a breaking in mid-shot similar to shots used commonly in thrillers to indicate something bad will happen. The document argues the thriller incorporates standard shots and techniques from real films to seem realistic and suspenseful without being unrealistic.