This document discusses how a media product conforms to and challenges conventions of real thriller films. It conforms by featuring a production company name in the title sequence, using a protagonist in the opening shot, and introducing the antagonist. It subverts conventions by having a long opening shot rather than a close-up. Shots also conform to conventions of using a point-of-view to get inside the protagonist's head and portraying antagonists as tough gangsters.
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? By Leo Faulks
2. This shot conforms to the usual title sequence seen in Hollywood productions because we featured the name of the production company.
3. This both conforms and subverts the stereotypical thriller product. It conforms because it features our main protagonist in the opening shot and it subverts by having a long shot as the opening shot of a film.
4. This shot conforms to the idea of using a POV shot to get inside the head of the protagonist. It also uses the convention of introducing the main antagonist in the opening sequence
5. In this shot we use the existing convention of having two tough looking males as the antagonists and using a POV shot to get inside the protagonists head. The antagonists are portrayed as tough gangsters which conforms to that existing thriller convention.
6. This shot plays with the thriller convention of an innocent looking blonde girl as a victim and protagonist and two men as violent, thuggish, gangster antagonists.
