This document summarizes how the production of the thriller "Invisible Lives" uses and develops conventions of real media products. It draws inspiration from films like "The Third Man" in its location and use of low-key lighting. The costumes of the male stalker and female victims are inspired by films such as "Once Upon a Time in America," "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," and "Kill Bill Vol 1." While reinforcing some stereotypes of gender, it challenges stereotypes of age by using young victims and an older male perpetrator. Though it doesn't use a conventional claustrophobic location, it employs the genre convention of dark, wet streets in its opening scenes.