Harry Helyar evaluates how their media product, "The Hunt", uses conventions of the thriller genre. Their piece opens with many enigmas that create suspense, a convention of thrillers. It introduces a main question of who Aaron Allen is and why a politician wants to find him. Thrillers also conventionally focus on solving an enigma as the main plot. "The Hunt" includes some violence when a politician strangles someone, creating another enigma. As a political thriller, it features government workers and uses of classified documents. The title "The Hunt" suggests one character is hunting someone or something, another thriller convention. Overall, Harry argues their piece develops conventions of the thriller genre well without overdoing it

1. In what ways does your
media product use, develop
or challenge forms and
conventions of real media
products?
Evaluation Question 01
Harry Helyar

2. After reviewing our media
product, it is very
conventional to thriller
genres, something we were
hoping to achieve. The main
purpose of a thriller is to
create suspense and
excitement, something our
piece does well.
Harry Helyar

3. Many enigmas are
created in our film
opening, this is
something that is very
conventional. The
audience is left with the
major question of who
is Aaron Allen? This is
backed up by why does
the politician want to
find him so badly.
Harry Helyar

4. It is likely in a thriller that
the main plot is based
around the solving of an
enigma, this makes our
opening very
conventional, the idea
would be to continue the
plot we have vaguely
introduced, this is
something similar in most
thrillers.
Harry Helyar

5. Another convention of
a thriller is violence.
We see some violence
in our film opening,
this is where the
politician strangles
someone. This creates
another enigma –
who is this person and
why is he being
strangled?
Harry Helyar

6. Thrillers are frequently political
thrillers. Our piece is an example of
one of these. The conventions of a
Political thriller includes the use of
government workers, normally a lot
of the colour black, always shady
characters and the use of
files/documents that a non-
government workers wouldn’t have
access to. Our piece has examples of
this.
Harry Helyar

7. “The Hunt” itself is a name
that fits in with thriller genres
well, it suggests that one of
the characters is hunting for
something, the enigma is
what are they hunting for,
hunting for someone or
something is another
conventional thing that
happens.
Harry Helyar

8. Overall our piece develops these
conventions a lot. “The Hunt” has
proved to be a very conventional
thriller. Everything you would
expect to be see in the typical
thriller is in our piece. The audience
is inclined to watch conventional
thrillers, therefore we tried to make
it as conventional as possible
without over-doing it.
Harry Helyar