1. Q3-20 Thriller Opening Evaluation
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
The first still image is of our credits and the design, which we chose
to create them. Harry Brown is a film that we feel also revolves
around the younger generation, which ours also does, so we used the
idea of plain black and white credits. These credits are conventional
to it’s urban, thriller genre as they are plain and give nothing away in
terms of story line of enigmas.
This still image uses the thriller convention as a still weapon of some
sort with blood on it is often used to create enigmas and to represent
the genre and sub-genres. We used this knife, along with a gun and a
small pack of sweets to represent drugs as our props as we felt we
had to give and indication into our thriller by putting questions in the
audience’ minds.

2. I have chosen this image, as it is our best image that can represent
our characters. We have gone with the convention of teenagers who
have for some reason got caught up in drugs and violence. It is quite
similar to film such as Harry Brown and Kidulthood and we have
conformed to some the conventions used e.g. guns, hoodies,
confrontations, drugs.
The location we have used in the opening is a mix between a deserted
forest area and a kitchen. The forest is the area in which the ‘drug
dealing’ and confrontations will take place and these challenge the
urban conventions because in Harry Brown and other similar films,
the ‘drug dealing’ often takes place in private city areas where they
are more hidden and discrete. The kitchen represents the area in
which drugs are often used.

3. The camerawork used in our thriller opening has been used to try
and portray real situations with the use of close-ups and the use of a
handheld camera. Using a handheld camera is one of the biggest
conventions in action-thriller films and we liked the idea of feeling
the tension of a chase scene. These were most commonly used in the
Bourne trilogy and it was very successful in adding suspense to the
clips.
The genre that we decided to go with was the idea of an urban, drug-
related thriller as we found that it went well with our target audience
of 15-34 year old males and a smaller group of females. Adulthood is
a thriller film that also follows a similar genre and we got some
inspiration from it. The credits we used are similar to the ones in
Harry Brown and the ones used for the title s of Kidulthood and
Adulthood.