Evaluation - Question 1 - Thriller Opening

1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our thriller is a mixture of supernatural and comedy. This challenges normal conventions as it is rare for thrillers to be funny as they are normally serious. This makes our thriller unique and different which would make more people watch it as it is unusual. It develops on typical media forms as it makes this form of thriller more well known.

The protagonist is often a brave male who seeks to restore order. In our thriller, the protagonists have no idea about what will happen to them they are normal teenagers. They aren't really seen as brave which challenges normal thriller conventions as the protagonist is normally brave and heroic.
The Antagonist will have a secret identity but will have met the protagonist at some point which has fuelled his need to go after the protagonist to begin with. Our thriller uses this as the antagonist is a ghost and they have no idea who it is or why it is trying to kill or posses them.




The audience should already expect the film to be scary in some way as soon as they walk in as it has a spooky atmosphere. The comedy factor will not be overused throughout the thriller as it will kill the horror part of it which is not good.




The Characters each have unique personalities  and personas. This may make the audience connect with the characters and feel more engrossed in the story. However this does support the way teenagers are percieved as many teenagers use informal and taboo language. Gor example, Mitchel swears after he drops his sausage roll.




I feel like we could have done some more research into how other supernatural/ comed horror thrillers are presented and made. It would have made our thriller more accurate and better presented.
Most thrillers are dark and often violent and often for higher age ranges. However, one of my favourite thrillers would be Batman - The Dark Knight.
 

This film is a really good representation of the thriller genre as it has an excellent protagonist (Batman) and an amazing antagonist (The Joker). This film supports the normal thriller genre as it has supporting chararcters to help Batman catch the Joker.