The document discusses conventions in thrillers and how the described media product utilizes and manipulates conventions. It indicates that the product includes elements commonly found in thrillers like guns, shooting, and blood to create thrills for viewers. However, it subverts expectations by revealing these intense elements were only part of a dream, not actually happening. The document also compares the product's opening to "The Usual Suspects" and analyzes how it develops conventions through its storytelling approach while also challenging conventions by deceiving audiences.

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
Conversation between
the shooter and
protagonist.
Lighter setting
No conversation
between the shooter
and protagonist.
Builds
suspense
of
shooter
Heartbeat and flat
line as background
soundtrack
Musical background
soundtrack
All characters wearing
formal clothing
Shooter wearing formal
clothing only, victim
wearing informal
clothing.
Gun shot
Hidden
identity
Non
diegetic
sound
Low
angle
shotShooter
wears
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
convention as most
thrillers have guns in it to
give the audience a
thrill when someone is
about to and has been
killed. Also associate
with the spy-thriller
genre as guns would be
the main prop.
This is a generic thriller
convention as dead
bodies are key. They
create the fear and
worry that the audience
feel. There are many
dead bodies in spy
movies as the good guy
has to kill all the bad
guys for example, so this
goes along the lines of
the spy-thriller genre.
This plays the convention
as everything was just a
dream and it was a big
twist. Thrillers usually use
twists and turns to make
the film more interesting.
There are many film that
use dreams as a twist
towards the end to shock
the audience that it was
fake, an example could
be breaking dawn part 2.

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