This document discusses how the thriller media product presented uses, develops, and challenges generic thriller conventions. It uses conventions through a shooting scene showing a dead body and blood. It develops conventions by building an unexpected thriller story leading to the gory scene. It challenges conventions by revealing the violent events were just a dream, so nothing actually happened. The document also notes how the product compares to "The Usual Suspects" and fits conventions of the spy-thriller subgenre through the protagonist's behavior and gadgets.

2. Our media product uses generic
conventions as most thrillers are seen to
have guns, shooting and blood within it
to make it more gory and give the
viewers a thrill whilst watching it. As we
have a shooting scene and you see the
dead body and the blood and hear
another gun shot where the audience
supposedly thinks someone else has
been killed, it therefore uses conventions.

3. Our thriller also develops these conventions,
when you watch our opening you
wouldn’t suspect it to be a thriller, you
would only know because we have said
so, therefore our film builds and develops
a story to create a slot for there to be a
gory scene to make it a thriller. Which
shows how our film has developed the
convention as the entire opening is
revolved around that shooting scene and
the thrill of it, hence shows development.

4. Our thriller also challenges the convention
as no one actually dies and in reality
there is no blood and gore; because it
was all just a dream. This challenges the
convention as none of that happened
and it was all the protagonist’s
imagination, therefore it plays around
with audience and tries to make them
think its real and be shocked, when they
find out after that it was only a dream
and nothing happened.

5. The use of conventions indicate that our thriller
is a sub-genre of spy-thriller. The conventions
of this is mainly linked with the props and the
behaviour of the protagonist. There are other
generic conventions that indicate the spy
type genre such as special and hi-tech
gadgets used within the film such as the
protagonist special and unusual bracelet, her
ipad and computer. Also her behaviour is
secretive and everything she does or says is
supposed to be hidden which also shows this.

6. The Usual Suspects My thriller opening
Darker setting Lighter setting
Conversation between Builds No conversation
the shooter and suspense
between the shooter
of
protagonist. shooter and protagonist.
Musical background Gun shot
soundtrack Hidden Non Heartbeat and flat
identity diegetic
sound line as background
Shooter wearing formal Low
soundtrack
clothing only, victim angle All characters wearing
shot
wearing informal Shooter formal clothing
wears
clothing. dark
clothing
We compared our thriller to another thriller called “The Usual Suspects”,
we watched the opening and found the similarities and differences and
put it into a Venn diagram in class, after jotting down our opinions we
turned to our groups and discussed what other things fell into those
categories that we didn’t mention.

7. This is a generic thriller This plays the convention
This is a generic thriller as everything was just a
convention as dead
convention as most dream and it was a big
bodies are key. They
thrillers have guns in it to twist. Thrillers usually use
create the fear and
give the audience a twists and turns to make
worry that the audience
thrill when someone is the film more interesting.
feel. There are many
about to and has been There are many film that
dead bodies in spy
killed. Also associate use dreams as a twist
movies as the good guy
with the spy-thriller towards the end to shock
has to kill all the bad
genre as guns would be the audience that it was
guys for example, so this
the main prop. fake, an example could
goes along the lines of
the spy-thriller genre. be breaking dawn part 2.

8. This convention shows This shows us that Alessia is This subverts the thriller
that Saroop is a the stronger character as convention as you can
weaker person than everyone is up on their feet see a lady killing people
Alessia as she will be to shake her hand and and you see the lady to
taking his position congratulate her for be the bad guy with the
within the firm, and as winning the big case. This gun. Normally y would
you can see he is also shows her power within see a man do those
knocking on Alessia’s the firm and she seems things as it is seen as a
door asking if he somewhat popular and masculine activity,
could come in which people are trying to get on therefore this convention
shows she is in power. her good side, because she is subverted.
will be their boss someday.