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

My media product is about a woman who is an assassin in a school. This conforms to conventions of real media products as thriller movies are known for being ‘different’ and subverting typical conventions of normal films. It develops the idea that women aren’t quite what they perceive to be. They are perceived to be weak and vulnerable compared to the strong and quick male. This can relate to a thriller movie from the 2011 movie called ‘Hanna’ where a young girl is set out to kill the people who killed her mother. The idea that my media product has quite an upbeat background soundtrack to it, I think, is atypical of a real thriller movie of today as the idea of a thriller movie is to disorientate the audience which is normally shown by slow and eerie music.

The fact that my media product is clearly set in a school also subverts to conventions of normal thriller movies as most thriller movies are set in an unknown place so as to get the audience to question what is actually going on and that they should feel a sense of self-affiliation towards the movie. However, I think the fact that the characters stereotypes’ are opposite to those which they normally are, the audience can relate to the characters in a way that they do not normally. By this I mean that the male audiences can relate to a more victimised male character but also relate to the strength of the female and the female can relate in the opposite way. This creates mystery to the plot of the film and therefore applies the Barthe’s Enigma y by presenting the audience with puzzles to solve and questions to ask.